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inner thoughts An informal call and response about the deep-rooted femnine issues that exist insocity. The repsonses are meant to fully andcompletely reflect the individual. This is HER.
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How do you feel about... I love social media, I really do. I'm I like social media. Overall, constantly on it and always looking I like to share pictures,but through my Instagram feed or retweeting getting so many likes doesn’t something on Twitter. I think it's a good really matter to me. Likes way to connect with people and share what definitely used to matter to me goes on in your daily life. I have when I first started using social family that I don't see a lot because they media, but now I find that I live too far away, so I connect with them focus more on how I look or how on Facebook. I think there are some I’m represented in the negatives of social media. The picture I’m taking. I think a cyberbullying, peer pressure, etc. For me lot of people don’t do this, Social MediaHayley Dresslerhowever, the good outweighs the bad. and it doesn’t matter to them how they’re represented, just how many like they get. M ady Nutter In my opinion, social media can be used Social media amazes and terrifies in a good and in a bad way. Lots of me at the same time. people use it for advertising, sharing Personally, I don’t use it photos, and communicating with others. often. However, it blows my mind Others use it in a negative way. For that I have the ability to learn example, making fun of others peoples’ what is happening around the posts, saying rude and nasty comments to world in a click of a button and others, especially celebrities. I would communicate with friends any hate to be a celebrity because if you time I want. However, it scares go through the comments on their me that the relationships built photos, there are some really mean online are inauthentic. It is so comments. Either way, there are pros and easy to mold ourselves and our life to seem as perfect as can Rachel Lindcons to social media. be to others when we have time to sit and edit on our phones. Social Media is a lot of fun and I like it However, the pressure to create but I also feel like it puts a lot of this ideal image creates stress pressure on people to act, dress and look on ourselves. Nobody ever posts a certain way which is a negative aspect their worst picture on of it. I think a positive aspect of it is Instagram, instead they stres a good way to be able to express yourself over every detail, down to the and share your feelings with other people. hour of the day to post, to make sure they get the most likes Bella Mazza possible. If people just step outside of their phones and off social media every once in a while and get to know a person for who they genuinely are, minus the filter. Lily Witte
How do you feel about...Social Media Bullying I have never seen or experienced social I think social media bullying media bullying firsthand as in people is cowardly. I think the bullying others on the internet, but I have people who do it are afraid of seen or heard others making fun of a something themselves or are person based off of what they post. I feel insecure about something and like we’re all guilty of this kind of take it out on people who social media bullying, especially when don’t deserve it. I think if we can be so quick to judge a person. you aren’t real enough to say something to each other’s Mady Nutter face, you’re fake and a sad Social media bullying is something that person. Hayley Dressler really needs to change. There are so many different things that people can do on I think social media social media to bully someone. I myself see bullying is one of the worst it all the time. People fight on Twitter and kinds of bullying and I think Facebook. It is just a sad thing that it is also one of the most common kinds. I think it can Rachel Lindhappens, but I wish it didn’t. have the worst affect on people because once it is out there, Social media bullying is just everyone can see it heartbreaking. The screen acts as a shield whenever they want and it never for the bully. When they don’t see the goes away. I think the reason reaction of the other person, there is no it has the worst affect is way to understand how bullying makes them because it is able to reach a feel. This lack of empathy in the bully is much wider range of people in a what I think makes it so easy for them to short amount of time, and cause constantly berate others for no reason. I more humiliation to the victim will never understand how you could ever do than other types of bullying. that to a person, but alas the world does not always make sense. People need to learn Bella Mazza that the act of trying to become superior by making others feel worse does nothing. If we try to climb a ladder by pushing others down and causing them to fall, we will fall with them. Lily Witte
How do you feel about... I am a feminist. Often when people are I think feminism is a asked about feminism, they are deterred wonderful thing not just for from identifying as one because they feel women, but men as well. I think the entirety of the feminist movement is it is a great step in working too extreme or unreasonable. I believe in for equality in all genders the political, social, and economic and making us one step closer to equality of the sexes, and I in no way a happy and peaceful world. I feel that this is too extreme or love the way it has allowed many unreasonable. It really frustrates me women to voice their opinions when people fail to believe in this move and be heard and make a ment purely based on the ideals that women difference in the world. are genetically and historically inferior, Bell a Mazza then use this to justify the belief that we should never deserve this type of equality. In my opinion, the world needs feminism. Mady NutterFeminism I think feminism is vital to creating a harmonious community between men and I love feminism. I would definitely women. When people dismiss feminism as “man-hating,” it consider myself a feminist. I think a lot is obvious they don’t get the point of what feminism is. of people tend to make jokes about feminism Feminism is the idea that both men and women can be who they and say that women are being “too much”. I want to be and do what they want to do, free from judgment disagree. I think women have fought long and stereotypes and barriers. Feminism to me means allowing and hard to achieve equality and feminism myself to understand that I continues to prove that we won’t stop fighting. Hayley Dressler have choice in this world and In a way, I am not really a huge feminist. I don’t have to follow what is I am all for getting girls to love and know expected of me. Feminism means themselves as they trully are, but when it that when I get told I “throw comes to political things, I don’t like a girl,” I can thank them really care. I think it’s great to motivate because I am indeed a girl, and girls, and let them know that they are I think girls can throw pretty beautiful and all that jazz. The pay wage, and workplace stuff is just not for me. well. Lily Witte Rachel Lind
How do you feel about...The Photoshop Culture Photoshop exists everywhere. I have never seen or experienced social You can look at any ad in any media bullying firsthand as in people magazine or movie poster or bullying others on the internet, but I have modelling pictures and it’s seen or heard others making fun of a almost always photoshopped. I person based off of what they post. I feel don’t know why people feel the like we’re all guilty of this kind of need to add or take away from social media bullying, especially when their natural bodies. I think it’s stupid? It’s false Mady Nutterwe can be so quick to judge a person. advertisement, in a way. I just don’t think people need I think photoshop is stupid. I mean yeah to alter their bodies like everybody puts filters and stuff like that on their photos sometimes, but the thigh gap they do.Hayley Dressler and things like that are just dumb. Things to that extent aren’t worth anybody’s time. The photoshop culture is very They should accept their body as it is. upsetting to be because I do not like the way it portrays Rachel Lind unrealistic images of people’s bodies that we are constantly Photoshop culture just seems unnecessary. being exposed to. It is not The reason we view models as the peak of realistic for us to be perfection is because we have been trained thinking our bodies need to by ads to think that way. If we look that way, when it is not continue to photoshop women and force upon even possible because a ourselves these unattainable ideals, we computer made that person will continue to assume that is what we look that way. I think it need to look like. Once media learns to diverts people away from loving step away from photoshop, men and women their bodies and themselves for will finally be able to accept each other who they are and accepting for who they are and stop comparing that God made everyone in his themselves to pictures which have been image and their is no such edited to the extreme. With the constant thing as a “perfect” body. bombardment of commercials and billboards Photoshop puts unrealistic with women who look so perfect and ideas of what we are “supposed” beautiful, it is easy to assume we look to look like when looking like worse just because we don’t look like this those images is not possible. made up version of another human being. Plus, some of the stuff they photoshop is so Bella Mazza ridiculous! Why would anyone feel the need to turn a size 4 model into size 0, or move Lily Wittetheir ears down a millimeter?
How do you feel about...PerfectionismIn my opinion, a lot of people suffer from Perfection is impossible to the idea that they have to be perfect, or attain. I think human nature fit into this mold of expectations they deem is to endlessly strive for adequate. Perfectionism can really hurt a perfection, but we must person, especially when they fail to live up understand that is not to these unrealistic expectations of possible. When I was in perfection. I think that perfectionism can seventh grade, I discovered root from photoshop because people see the concept “wabi-sabi,” which imperfect people made perfect, and then they is the Japanese aesthetic and see these perfected people regularly through idea of finding beauty and art the spread of social media. in everyday imperfection. In America, perfect symmetry and Mady Nutter proportions are the ideals. However, in Japan, they focus So I guess it is like not wanting to go on the “imperfect, with the “in” look. I honestly don’t impermanent, incomplete.” understand it that well to answer the When someone in Japan breaks a vase, they will not throw Rachel Lindquestion enough HA! it away or try to hide the cracks. Instead, they will I am a perfectionist. A lot of people don’t fill the crack with gold so see me as one, but I definitely am. If that everyone can see it’s something is the slightest bit off, I tend to past. Viewing the transience freak out. I don’t know why I think like of life and allowing our own that, but it’s kind of always been like that. unique cracks and I guess in a way, it can be a good thing. imperfections to shine is Like if you want to improve, and you don’t the only way to truly be stop until something is completely perfect, happy and be ourselves. then you’ve done the best you could do and Everybody has flaws, and when are satisfied. But it can also be a downfall. we accept the magnificence in I know I’ve gotten stressed to the point of our own, it will become crying because something wasn’t perfect. I easier to accept the flaws in others. Perfection does not Hayley Dresslerdon’t know. I guess it has it’s ups and create success, instead that is the result of our mistakes downs. and failures which we learn from. Lily Witte I am a perfectionist myself and I know that it puts a lot of stress on me because I constantly feel pressured to meet all the standards placed on me even when I am aware that it is not always realistic to meet these standards. I think perfectionism is an extremely common thing in our society today and I think it would be very difficult to stop it because people put pressure on themselves as well as society putting pressure on us too. Bella Mazza
How do you feel about...The Pay-Wage GapI think it’s bullshit (I tried The pay wage gap doesn’t really bother me. to find a cleaner word but this Right now, I make the same as the boys do fits it too perfectly lol). Back at my work. I think it really depends on to what I said about feminism, the situation. I know that sometimes it is women have fought for equality a big issue, but at 17 years old I could for years. The fact that we care less. And in the future, unless it’s still don’t get the same amount something really big, I probably won’t care. of pay sucks. We deserve it! If you work just as hard as the Rachel Lind next male, then you should earn the same amount of money as I feel that the wage gap has several him. Society won’t ever evolve factors to it that ultimately determine if they can’t realize that why men are paid more than women. Over equality for women still doesn’t time, women have not had the opportunity to gain the same experience as a man, women do exist. Hayley Dressler not aspire to the same jobs as men because society doesn’t expect us to, and we live I think the pay-wage gap is not in a patriarchal society where men are seen a necessary thing and I do not as more deserving of credit for the same understand what makes anyone a think a man should be payed more Mady Nutterjob performed by a woman. for doing the exact same job as a woman does. I do not The pay-wage gap is aggravating. I think understand how what they are it is a testament to how women used to doing is at all different and (and sometimes still are) assumed to be how a pay gap can be justified at less competent at certain jobs than men all unless someone was getting are. It still blows my mind that women hold a raise for doing higher quality only about 4% of the CEO positions for work or something of the sort. America’s 500 largest companies. We as a I think it should be eliminated society, both men and women, need to unless it can be successfully understand women can be leaders too and justified by someone. that no matter the profession, ability comes from hard work and dedication, not Bella Mazza whether we have a Y chromosome or not. Lily Witte
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IN Session The hot spot of study tips, coffeerecommendations, and DIYs of making school cool again. This is HER.
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Study group It’s bound to happen- Tips to Stay pulling an all-nighter. Here are some tips to avoid the On Top of It crash and burn. I personally recommend COFFEE (any kind, I 1. Wear your favorite nail don’t judge) and lavendar oil. Coffee makes me smile and the polish oil instantly makes me take a breath. 2. Wear a Bright Lip Color 3. Make a to-do listHow to Pull an 4. Color coordinate All-Nighter 5. Jam to your music // http://theorganised student.tumblr.com/1. Drink LOTS of coffee Here is my gift to you-2. Work i n hour bursts how to stay rad and fab for3. Wear lavendar whatever life throws at you.4. Play your favorite Music I love wearing my5. Snack Often favorite nail polish color6. keep on a light (either red or grey)7. take walks becasue it keeps me focused8. take 10 minute naps and makes me feel8. take time to put on accomplished. I love color coordinating, especially my some makeup planner (for the same reasons) *Here’s a note. The website I included is SUPER helpful. It’s a studyblr (a tumblr for studying. It’s called theorganizedstudent.tumblr. com. Check it out.
But First, Coffee coffee types Ahhh...coffee, the other half to my madness, the peanut to my butter, the rock to my roll. For those interested, this page is dedicated to coffee. The diagram above briefly describes the drink process and the pictures on the side are credited to Emilee Poehner. I truly hope you enjoy this page, perferably with a cup of coffee in hand. Now read on, you hipster you. / Photos courtesy of Emilee Poehner
DIY or Die Ingredients: Pucker Up /1 tablespoon coconut oil /1 teaspoon dehyrdtaed raspberries, crushed/ /3 drops of lemon juice /small (old) containers 1. Heat cocnut oil in microwave-safe dish for 30 seconds. 2. After microwaving, stir in about three drops of lemon juice. 3. Crush a few dehydrated raspeririies and set them aside. Once they are broken into small crumbs, sprinkle a teaspoon into the melted oil. 4. Stir the mixture in a room-temperature setting for 10 inutes until the balm is thickened, but not hardened. 5. Spoon a small amount of the balm into sanitized containers, like old eyeshadow palettes, or lipstick bullets. 6. Smack away++Both of these DIYs were inspired from Ohio University’s Thread Magazne
DIY or DieBurning Love Ingredients: /teacups /candle wicks /candle wax flakes or beeswax /chopsticks or pencils /stove /saucepan /glass container /scissors /tape /essential oil(optional) /wax coloring(optional) 1. Sanitize tea cups 2. Measure wax (2 teacups per candle) 3. Lay wicks against bottom of the teacup. Center it easing the chopsticks; tape the bottom to hold them in place 4. Fill the pan halfway with water and place the flakes in the glass container to create a double boiler. Melt to medium-high 5. Once melted, remove the glass container and add oils and/or coloring 6. Pour the wax into the teacup until half an inch below the rim 7. Let cool 8. Trim wicks to 1 cm 9. Light and relax!
DIY or DieIngredients: Dots and Dashes/notebook/sticker or magazineclippings/clear tape1. Arrange clippingsand/or stickers toliking2. Tape to notebook3. Admire!** Here’s a note. In the picture, I have a sticker fromDarling Magazine that says ‘100% RealBeauty’ taped on my planner and a coffee mug tag (suprising) that says ‘HelloGorgeous!’ taped on my journal. The design can be simple, or you can decorate withimages that reprent you as a person. You do you, boo.
DIY or DieIce Cold Ingredients: /3/4 cup cold coffee concentrate /3/4 teaspoon of condensed milk /2 teaspoons of carmel syrup /pinch od sea salt /half-and-half cream or milk to taste /ice or frozen coffee cubes 1. Fill glass with ice/ coffee cubes 2. Pour coffee concentrate over ice cubes/or coffee cubes 3. Add condensed milk, caramel, and sea salt 4. Top if off with half- and-half or milk 5. Add more caramel or condensed milk if you have a sweet tooth 6. Drink heavily ++This DIYs was inspired from Ohio University’s Thread Magazne
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Last WordsNot a goodbye, merely a see you around. The editor, me, Erin Gardner, reflects on the entirety of Her. and what it brought. This is HER.
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Farewell Friends...I am so sad to be closing this magazine with an editor’s last note. I amso honored to have had this chance to create an open and trustworthyplace to share insights, thoughts feelings, and secrets. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE HELPED ME ALONG THE WAY. I am broke, but I can repay you in arad cup of coffee.For those of you reading this, please know that you are beautiful, loved, and worthwhile. Although society may not think so, I do and you shouldtoo. The purpose of this magazine is to represent that; the belief thatwomen everywhere should throw caution to the wind about beauty stadards and societal expectations. My personal opinion is that this is bullshitand packed full of self-loathing and direct lies. No woman (or man)should resort to desructive habits and self hate to attain unrealistic body types and facial structures. This magazine was meant to disproveall that was stated above and pave a different path.I want to express my thanks towards my family, friends, my teachers, my mentor, S. Patricia Wittberg, and all the fabulous women featured in the magazine. My family and friends have calmed me down successfully from panic attacks and have wisley told me to lay off the coffee. Myteachers have guided me through some hiccups and my mentor has given meincredibly helpful tips to improve the magazine. The ladies in themagazine have made the magazine what it is. This isn’t me-it’s them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you all more than coffee(I know, I’m that serious)The poem on the next page is a cynical piece I wrote once upon a time. I included it in here to demonstrate the feriocity and passion that is felt not only by me, but among millions of others.Her. Inspirations. passions. Ideals. Beliefs. Voice.This is Her. erin/// ///Gardner2
“Plastic”When I look into the mirror, my hands try to smooth, soothe my fearsDisprove the preconceived notions that a size 2 is worth the tearsMy thighs aren't supposed to touch,My fists are meant to clutchThe mascara shouldn't dare smudgeBut if it does only society will judgeThe runway walk should be perfected, practiced with poiseIf it's done right, the reward will be boysThe tight sequin that squeezes when you sitPray to God, it should fitBut if it doesn't, then honey, perhapsyou should recommit 3
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