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A Feminist Response To The Shelving Of The Vagina Monologues

By Leah Minadeo · Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018

Recently, the Women’s Resource Center announced it would end productions of The Vagina Monologues. The reason? It’s insufficiently diverse and inclusive. First, let me be clear that I agree with that assessment, and I claim no attachment to the continuation of the monologues. But even as a queer feminist, soon to be graduating from Eastern’s Women’s and Gender Studies program, I write this: it’s a terrible mistake to end the monologues on a basis that boils down to The Vagina Monologues do it wrong.

Ypsilanti provides tax abatements to businesses

By James Tatum · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

The National Bureau of Economic Research announced a nascent recession in the United States in 2007, and then cited its end in 2009. There has since, however, been an economic malaise, with the national unemployment rate at 7.3 percent and state unemployment rate at 8.8 percent.

Mental illnesses: Let’s end the stigma

By Jess Salisbury · Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013

It’s easy to be afraid of something you don’t understand – why do you think people are scared of ghosts, death or One Direction’s fandom? But what happens when the very thing people don’t understand is that big gray blob of meat inside your skull?

In our opinion: State promises to its students should be kept

By Echo Staff · Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009

When Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the budget, she knew funding for the Michigan Promise Scholarship was not included.