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February 28, 2011 | EHevey94 | Feminism, Health, Misogyny, Violence against women

I have this friend who's in the year below me who insists that certain sexist institutions within society should be tolerated based on the fact that a couple million years ago there was a biological b...

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February 27, 2011 | Marie B | Education, Feminism, Gender-based violence, Sports, Violence against women

Martial Arts: Not Just Defense

This weekend I will be testing for my black belt after eight years of Taekwondo classes. During those eight years, I’ve grown into the person I am today. Not only have I learned how to kick, punch, an...

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February 26, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |

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February 26, 2011 | Brian C | Arts and culture, Media

Support Women Artists Sunday: CocknBullKid

CocknBullKid has made a couple of important transitions recently. First, she's changed her name, dropping the pronoun (she's CocknBullKid, not The CocknBullKid). And secondly, she has emerged from a c...

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February 25, 2011 | A. | Feminism, LGBTQIA, Media, Misogyny

Saturday Vids: Feminist Nerdfighting

As many of you, as frequenters of the Internet, probably know, in 2007 young adult author John Green and his brother, an environmental blogger named Hank Green, started a video blog called Brotherhood...

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February 25, 2011 | Dr. Martha Lauzen | Arts and culture, Media

Getting Real About Reel Employment

Hollywood bigwigs don't want to hear it, but Martha Lauzen's figures do not lie: a few high-profile successes, however welcome, belie the stagnant status of women in the film industry. Here she suggests strategies for change.

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February 24, 2011 | Cinda SL | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media

Roar

It began as a whisper, of one woman leaning into the ear of another, "Do you feel it?" she asked. Then whispered to another, "Do you feel it?" and it began to spread, this whisper, from one woman to ...

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February 23, 2011 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture, Feminism

Lingering Inequity in the Arts—A Comedic Take

In a new play in San Francisco, Theresa Rebeck explores workplace reality where a woman's good work may reward no one.

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February 22, 2011 | Regina | Arts and culture, Body image and body standards, Feminism, LGBTQIA, Media, Misogyny, Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Religion

The Link Between Beauty, Privilege and the Media

We don’t live in a vacuum. Our ideas, our lexicon, and our beliefs are shaped by outside forces like society, culture, environment, and religion. Fields like sociology and anthropology prove that. Wo...

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February 21, 2011 | Lindsey T | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Health, International, Media

Paris Gyms: Enter At Your Own Risk

From a very young age my mother instilled in me a certain logic, if you can call it that. There were clothes that could be worn to school, to friends houses, out to dinner and to events and then there...

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February 20, 2011 | Jenae S | Body image and body standards, Education, Feminism, Health, LGBTQIA, Misogyny

More Than A Vagina: A Critique of the Vagina Monologues

For anyone who doesn't know, The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler. Each monologue deals with an issue relating to the vagina. Topics cover everything from love and masturb...

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February 19, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media

Support Women Artists Sunday: Theoretical Girl

Theoretical Girl is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Southend-on-Sea who makes electro-folk-pop on her 8-track in her bedroom. She has been doing so since 2006. Theoretical Gir...

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February 18, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media

Saturday Vids: If I Were A Boy