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January 13, 2014 | Michelle Onello, Esq. | International, Violence against women
New report details ongoing sexualized violence in Burma
On November 27, 2012, a 26-year-old woman was gang-raped by seven Burmese soldiers. When the woman’s husband returned home, the soldiers threatened to kill him. “Even if you tell other people, there is no one who will take action,” they said. “We have the authority to rape women.”
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January 12, 2014 | Hannah | Education, Feminism, International, Media, Race/Ethnicity
Feminism Has Changed Me: Claiming My Black Latina Identity
Throughout the last few weeks, I have been introduced to a powerful movement called feminism. I have never been as inspired and motivated to use my voice than I am right now. The more that I have been...
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January 11, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Lizzo
Melissa Jefferson, better known by her stage name Lizzo, is an American alternative hip hop artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice, Grrrl ...
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January 10, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media
Saturday Vids: Celebrating the Heroic Women of 2013
Is this a corporate video produced by Microsoft as a way to promote their products? Yes. Did it still make me happy to see clips of inspiring women who made 2013 great set to an over-played pop song? ...
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January 09, 2014 | Melissa Banigan | Arts and culture, Feminism, Girls
Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self
I was inspired to start Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self, an anthology of advice letters written by fifty women to their teenage selves, because next year, my daughter will be turning thirteen. I w...
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January 08, 2014 | Katti Gray |
Shedding New Light on Race and the Movies
Several notable films featuring black lead characters garnered much media attention in 2013. But a new study of 500 films takes a deeper look at who audiences are seeing on screen—and how that is affected by who is behind the camera.
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January 08, 2014 | Lauren Wolfe | Media, Science and tech, Violence against women
‘How to rape a woman’: Searching for porn, ending up here
Sometimes I look at the Google Analytics for this site. Usually while I’m doing research or working on our social media, I’ll click over to a window I have open and see who is on the site right now—what countries they’re reading from, what stories they’ve landed on, and, sometimes, what words they searched to get to our project. It’s pretty interesting overall.
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January 07, 2014 | Chloe Hallinan | Education, Feminism, Misogyny, Sports
Women's Football: Feminist or Sexist?
Football seems to be the sport that excludes women the most.  In this day in age we have women's leagues for softball, baseball, and the WNBA, but football always had men in the spotlight being cheere...
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January 06, 2014 | Vidyut | Feminism, International, Violence against women
Why has it become normal to dehumanize women in India?
Two years ago, on New Year’s Eve, a girl was molested on the streets of Delhi in front of a crowd. The video went viral—as did the spectacle of a mob of men falling upon the woman and the police thrashing the rabid mob with lathis (batons) like a pack of dogs.
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January 05, 2014 | Gina H | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Violence against women
Recovering from an Abusive Relationship
After I escaped my abusive relationship I overexerted and exhausted myself at my own expense for the sake of resolving public opinion. I felt I needed to explain why I had been behaving so differently...
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January 04, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Beatrice Eli
Beatrice was born in 1987 and received much of her musical upbringing via MTV and the American soul / R & B / hip-hop videos that channel served. Alongside the influential music channel she grew u...
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January 03, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media
Saturday Vids: Support Obvious Child
Gillian Robespierre, Writer/Director: "I first made the 'Obvious Child' short film in the Winter of 2009 with my friends Anna Bean and Karen Maine. We were frustrated by the limited representations of...
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January 02, 2014 | Patricia Valoy | Feminism, International
Global Feminism in One Place? It’s Possible!
An innovative new project is giving feminists worldwide the tools to be visible, connected, and more powerful.
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January 01, 2014 | Talia | Feminism, Media, Violence against women
On Eradicating Violence Against Women
My college’s office of sexual assault prevention recently hosted a talk by Leslie Morgan Steiner. Steiner, a Harvard graduate, TED talk speaker, and author of Crazy Love, spoke about her experience...
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