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The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

A poster from the Women’s Center’s most recent event, “What is Love?,” is on display in the Women’s Center in the Cesar Chavez Student Center on SF State’s campus in San Francisco, Calif., on Nov. 8, 2022. At this event, attendees were able to express what love means to them, as can be seen written on the poster. (Tatyana Ekmekjian / Xpress Magazine)

Women’s Center, Not Just for Women

Asiah Capponi, Staff Writer
December 9, 2022

Fog hovers over the Cesar Chavez Student Center on a weekday at SF State. As students rush to class, Kailey Flores wanders on the third floor of the building, stopping by room T-116. She sits on the big...

Natasha Sharapova is a woman documentary filmmaker in the Bay Area(Xpress Photographer William Wendelman)

Women in Film

Janae Rodriguez
September 23, 2019

In an industry often dominated by their male counterparts, many Bay Area women are paving a path for themselves via their passion for filmmaking. A 2018 study by San Diego State University found that...

The Loud Voices of a Quiet Print

The Loud Voices of a Quiet Print

Kiana Fillius
April 15, 2018

Seniors of the Women and Gender Studies department at San Francisco State University slowly filtered through the door of room 131 in the Humanities building. Most of the tables and chairs were pushed towards...

Dont Call Yola An Angry Black Woman: Black Suicide

Don’t Call Yola An Angry Black Woman: Black Suicide

Fayola Perry
December 2, 2015

By Fayola Perry W.E.B. DuBois, author and black revolutionary, once asked, "how does it feel to be a problem?" It is a question anyone must consider when studying or discussing blackness, or the state...

A Slice of Sports with Liz Carranza: Women in Sports Journalism

A Slice of Sports with Liz Carranza: Women in Sports Journalism

Liz Carranza
October 17, 2015

Photo by Martin Bustamante   By Liz Carranza Back in March I visited New York for the Society for Collegiate Journalists Conference, where journalism programs from around the nation gathered...

Interview: Amber Gordon, founder of Femsplain

Interview: Amber Gordon, founder of Femsplain

Catherine Uy
April 17, 2015
Catherine Uy talks with Amber Gordon, the founder of Femsplain, an online community where women can share their stories.

What is more obscene, violence or a female nipple?

Calla Camero
December 8, 2014

Before an American child turns eighteen, they see over two hundred thousand acts of violence and forty-thousand murders on TV but not one female nipple. So what is more obscene? You would think,...

Lammily, the most prepubescent doll you’ve ever seen

Katie Mullen
November 21, 2014

Finally, there is a doll available to consumers that will display the exact proportions of a 19-year-old girl, according to CDC data. What a concept, having girls play with and look up to something realistic...

Major League Sexism

Tami Benedict
October 24, 2014

In the history of sports journalism, there has never been more women reporting on televised American sports then there are today, according to the Women’s Media Center. Erin Andrews hosts Fox College...

Feminism is for men too

Farnoush Amiri
October 7, 2014

For a long period of time, the only people who spoke out about the cause of equality for women through the establishment and defending of equal political, cultural, economical, and social rights for...

Happy Safe Sex-ing, SF State

Lissette Vargas
September 30, 2014

“Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die.”   Coach Carr instilling fear in the teenagers of America in 2004’s Mean Girls is the first thing that comes to mind when I think...

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