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April 29, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Education, Feminism
The Women's College Experience
Over the past few weeks, there has been an influx of accepted students on Barnard's campus. I've tried to talk to as many as possible, successfully resisting the urge to desperately grab them and urge...
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April 28, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Nina Storey
Nina Storey uses the phrase "21st-century soul" to describe her music, "because it's rooted in a soul sound with bluesy overtones," she explained to AfterEllen.com. "The music that I write is a mix of...
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April 27, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media
Saturday Vids: The Conversation
The Conversation, hosted by Amanda de Cadenet, premiered on Lifetime this past Thursday. If you watched it I would love to hear your feedback, and if you haven't check out the Conversation's page on L...
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April 27, 2012 | Cara Hoffman | International, Media, Violence against women
Going down the rabbit hole: Cara Hoffman interviews Women Under Siege Director Lauren Wolfe
What can women do right now to get involved in ending violence against women? How do you deal with feelings of discouragement and anger in this work? Cara Hoffman, author of So Much Pretty (Simon & Schuster) speaks with Women Under Siege Director Lauren Wolfe about this and more.
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April 27, 2012 | Lauren Barbato | Feminism, Health, Media, Politics
Young Feminists Go Live to Protect Women's Reproductive Rights
Young feminists, whose presence in the current War on Women plays out largely online, plan to emerge from the virtual world with rallies in Nashville and other state capitals April 28.
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April 26, 2012 | Bre K | Education, Feminism, Violence against women
One In Five Women
There you are at three in the morning, sprawled out on someone else’s bed in a foreign room that smells like sex. Your body doesn’t even feel like yours -- it feels like you're standing over yourself,...
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April 26, 2012 | Karestan C. Koenen | Feminism, Misogyny
'Do I give off a slut vibe?' A professor addresses sexism in the Ivy League
“You smell soooo good, I could just eat you up.” “Here, sit on my lap.” “No, mine!” “I get her first!” “Putting him alone in a room with a woman is like giving an alcoholic a bottle of booze—he just can’t help himself.”
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April 25, 2012 | Laura Bates | International, Violence against women
Defining justice when the law is unjust: How gender imbalance affects women around the world
Justice is supposed to confer equality, impartiality, protection for victims, and punishment for perpetrators. Yet as recently as the 1970s, spousal rape was not considered a criminal offense in some U.S. states.
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April 24, 2012 | Crystal | Economy, Feminism, Misogyny, Violence against women
How Do I Deal With Sexual Harassment?
I work as a bagger in a grocery store where the majority of my co-workers are male. Ever heard someone say something like, "To him, women are just a piece of meat?" Well, that's the mentality of most ...
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April 24, 2012 International, Violence against women
Obama includes sexualized violence in U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum remarks
On April 23, President Barack Obama delivered an address at a ceremony at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. He intended both to commemorate the Holocaust and to outline his administration's efforts to honor the pledge of “never again” by developing a comprehensive strategy to prevent and respond to genocide and mass atrocities.
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April 24, 2012 | Sharon B. Ufberg | Feminism, Girls, International
Young Women's Caucus—A Promising Sign at UN Commission Meeting
While the recent UN Status of Women Commission sessions failed to reach consensus on recommendations for rural women, young women moved forward, impressing the author with their leadership potential.
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April 23, 2012 | Josh Shahryar | International, Misogyny, Violence against women
Afghan women face horrors for ‘moral crimes’
A cab driver abducted Marya, 15. He and another man raped her. Tahmina, 18, was trying to find the boy she liked in the hopes of escaping domestic violence and forced marriage. Two men she didn't know found her instead. They raped her. Malalai invited the guy she was seeing over to her house when she was alone, but he proved to be a mistake and raped her.
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April 22, 2012 | Heidi L | Feminism, Girls, Media
Girls Leadership Institute: The Summer That Changed Me
A-woo, GLI, that is my heart’s desire! A-woo, GLI, I love it, I love it, I love it! So goes the celebratory chant of the Girls Leadership Institute. For three weeks over the summer of 2011, GLI was m...
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April 21, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Nite Jewel
Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez. She is a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, California, where she has exhibited a number of video and sound installa...
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April 20, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media, Politics
Saturday Vids: Nineteen Percent on The Erosion of Roe v. Wade
This video is a few months old but I stumbled across it recently and think it's still (always) very relevant, and a good review of where we were on the reproductive rights debate in 2011. Also, I love...
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