Ariel Hoffmaier Training Manager
Articles
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Whole Women’s Health seeks right to abortions
At the beginning of March, the Supreme Court heard its first abortion case in nine years. The fate of women’s reproductive freedom in America rests on the decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Keep a careful eye on this one, guys, because it will either revive Roe v. Wade, or deal it a final death blow.
Forum | April 4, 2016 -
Production at Purnell explores artistic conflict
If there’s one important lesson I learned from the School of Drama’s premiere production of Bob and Dave and Ren, it’s that every debate can be resolved with a gay threesome.
Pillbox | March 28, 2016 -
The Full Monty plays at Philip Chosky Theatre
I spent this Friday night waiting anxiously for the chance to see some all-American hunks bare it all. I almost didn’t score tickets to the School of Drama’s production of The Full Monty, but I was committed. First on the waitlist, I rushed to my surprisingly good seat smack in the center of a totally occupied row toward the middle of the Philip Chosky Theater. The crowd buzzed with anticipation, ...
Pillbox | February 29, 2016 -
Prostitution, porn, identity throw wrench in sex positivity
When I was a sixteen-year-old budding feminist still afraid of the label, I wrote a research paper that attempted to disprove virginity. It was a “construct,” I argued — a sexist, heteronormative box that society invented to restrain and shame women’s expression of their sexuality. Like many millennial feminists, I was proudly “sex positive.”
Forum | February 8, 2016 -
Milk Like Sugar at Studio 201
Even the journey to Studio 201 seemed perfectly suited to the experience that was Milk Like Sugar, a play about an underprivileged 16-year-old girl who must decide whether to follow through on her friends’ pregnancy pact. When our Lyft dropped us off at a seemingly deserted warehouse, we were near positive the location was wrong and we’d been stranded God knows where. But thankfully, Carnegie Me...
Pillbox | December 7, 2015