Word: stigmas
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...Jessie E.A. Washington ’09, “In the Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenné B. Ayers ’10), an illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under...
Despite the stigma attached to her party affiliation and preppy media image, Kerry Healey is a true moderate. Support responsible and balanced government by voting...
...campus discourse. Certainly, HRL’s posters incite debate. But because they do so at the expense of rape victims, they turn what ought to be a healthy, educational discussion into a vicious polemic of name-calling, in which the attacked individuals likely cannot defend themselves. Societal stigma is such that women do not regularly publicize their rape or their decision to have an abortion, especially not in a hostile environment...
...There is a lot of stigma when we disclose our condition,” Kunene said...
...said that the choir members started singing and touring to battle the public stigma of their condition...