Women of Color Feminisms - US

This series of blog posts chronicles the journey of women of color at TCU. Spanning everything from student life to faculty, we offer a...

“Greek leaders, administrators discuss discrimination issue” This article actually came up on my radar in another class and this was...

Annabel Hillstrom Overview Tina Gentry was a senior at TCU in 1985. According to an article written about her by a student reporter in...

As I looked through the 1989 yearbook, I counted. I counted the number of women who looked like me. Counting is something those not in...

Overview TCU has a well-known magazine titled “The Skiff”. In 1968, a group of students created a supplemental magazine titled WAKE in an...

Overview Dr. Hortencia Garcia Kayser (known as just "Dr. Hortencia Kayser" during her time at TCU) was a Latina speech pathology...

Change. Change is what needs to happen on this campus. However, where I think a lot of change needs to happen is in sorority and...

Introduction: In the winter of 1892 at Smith college Netball which later became women's basketball emerged to help promote the health of...

Introduction: As a part of the Women of Color Feminism class I am enrolled in this semester at TCU, we were given the task to research a...

Overview The person I chose to discuss is Quantalane Henry. Henry was a student at TCU during the early 80s. She studied Broadcast...

Introduction The first sorority’s here at TCU were founded in 1955, and it wasn’t until 1972 that the first African American sorority was...

Who Was Jennifer Giddings? Jennifer Giddings was an undergraduate student at TCU from 1969 to 1971. In her years as an undergraduate she...

Overview The primary source I located is an issue of The Daily Skiff, Volume 75 Number 62, dated February 15th, 1977. In it, there is a...

Overview TCU’s newspaper, The Skiff, published this article about Sigma Lambda Alpha and the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in the...

Sources The archival sources that I found included two that particularly stuck out to me, and they don’t seem to have an immediate...

Overview: In the late 1940s, a few short years after the end of World War II, the Cold War began. During this time period, the second red...

Introduction: TCU has never been particularly apt at conversations pertaining to issues that people of color, particularly women, face on...

Introduction and Overview Shell Robinson, while not well known for the most part, is a one that made strides for women of color in the...

Overview Nancy Shui-Wen Su and Anh Ngo were some of the first Asian women to step foot on Texas Christian University's campus. Separated...

Analysis: Vikki Fuller made her present very known on TCU’s campus during her time period here. In 1975 she was featured in several...

Introduction: In 1954, educational institutions took a drastic shift due to the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Schools...