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April 29, 2014 | Lauren M | Education, Feminism, Misogyny, Sports
Changing the Dialogue About Women’s Sports
It has been a pretty good month to be from Connecticut. March Madness came to a close on Monday, April 7th and Tuesday, April 8th, with the championship victories of the Men and Women’s National Baske...
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April 27, 2014 | Celeste Y | Feminism, Girls, Media
Lady Promposals: I'm Breaking the Prom Double Standard -- Right Now
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="267" caption="The art of the promposal"][/caption] With my grade's school day countdown approaching the twenties, obligatory end-of-high-school events are beco...
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April 23, 2014 | Darializa Avila-Chevalier | Arts and culture, Education, Feminism, Media, Race/Ethnicity
Choosing Not to Support Marginalization of Minority Groups Through Illustration
As an artist for my college's newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, I sometimes have to illustrate pieces laced with unrecognized privilege. I’ve drawn for articles that fetishize poverty in Spanish Harl...
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April 23, 2014 | Trish Bendix |
Women Find Themselves on the Web
Amid ample evidence that both the small and big screens are still a man’s world, women are finding audiences by creating their own series and making them available on the web.
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April 22, 2014 | Priyali Sur | International, Violence against women
A Delhi street where sex workers are forgotten
With painted faces and shiny clothes, almost every day of their lives these women are forced to sell themselves for sex. Their work and lives are at the bottom of everyone’s concern, but they are still tied to Garstin Bastion Road—commonly known as GB Road—Delhi’s biggest red light area, which lies at the center of a busy commercial corner of the capital.
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April 21, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Robin Morgan
Exciting News: The FBomb Is Joining the Women's Media Center
Discovering the world of feminist blogging was an experience of simultaneous relief and isolation: just as Second Wave feminists have described the way consciousness raising allowed them to realize th...
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April 18, 2014 | Kate Rounds |
One-Stop Shopping
A Buffalo abortion clinic adds a birthing center, creating a new model of a full-service facility for women’s reproductive health.
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April 15, 2014 | Kylie V | Feminism, Media
Why We Must Speak Out
I love Sara Bareilles’ Brave. Who doesn’t love a message about overcoming fear in order to express one’s opinions? Say what you wanna say And let the words fall out Honestly I wanna see you be brave W...
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April 13, 2014 | Julia B | Arts and culture, Education, Feminism, Girls
Not "Crazy," Just Dedicated
When girls are young, Cinderella tells them “dreams really do come true.” As we get older, that philosophy changes and we learn that life isn’t actually a fairytale. You have to work hard in order to ...
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April 11, 2014 | Jocelyn Brooks | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
‘Everybody knew who testified’: Can disguises work for rape survivors?

A woman sits, microphone in hand, behind a billowing, black curtain—further obscured by a black veil that hides her face, her body, and even her hands—as she finds the courage to recount her rape by government soldiers in Minova, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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April 10, 2014 | Leta Hong Fincher | International, Violence against women
‘The system is designed to make you give up’: An American tackles domestic violence in China
Kim Lee met Li Yang on a trip to China in 1999, when he was lecturing about “Crazy English,” a way of learning the language that involved overcoming inhibitions through shouting slogans such as “Conquer English to Make China Stronger!”
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April 09, 2014 | Dr. Martha Lauzen |
Moving Beyond the Bechdel Test
The author, a leading expert on women in the film industry, introduces new research that goes beyond the numbers, revealing the quality of films’ portrayals of women.
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April 08, 2014 | Beatrice M | Economy, Education, Feminism, Health
Are We Sexually Equal?
Women have made great strides towards social, political and economic equality in the past decades, but where do we stand in terms of sexual equality? Humans are sexual creatures who all want to explor...
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April 07, 2014 | Chagmion Antoine | International, Violence against women
Where sisterhood ends: The victim in your own home
When the case of a 23-year-old Indonesian domestic worker made international headlines, readers were shocked to hear of the physical abuse that left the once vibrant young woman nearly disabled. But just as shocking to the international community was the subsequent revelation that her employer—a 40-year-old mother of two—had been charged with the attacks.
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April 06, 2014 | Chloe Hallinan | Economy, Feminism, International, Media, Race/Ethnicity
Girls: Do We Run The World?
I love Beyonce’s song Girls Run The World, it has an awesome chorus, a pumping beat, and a great message about the power of women. But unfortunately I think James Brown more accurately depicts our...
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