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September 07, 2014 | Tanvi S | Feminism, LGBTQIA
The LGBTQ Movement Is About More Than Marriage Equality
Many activists have brought attention to the fact that the LGBTQ movement – or at least the public perception of it is -- is too focused on marriage. It seems that the media has almost made the entire...
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September 04, 2014 | Ines R | Feminism, Girls, Misogyny
On Young Women Traveling Alone
“Be careful, you’re just a girl!” I heard this phrase far too many times this summer as I prepared to leave for Brazil and Peru. Every Spring Break since I can remember I’ve traveled to Peru, and I’m ...
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September 04, 2014 | Arijit Sen | International, Violence against women
Abuses by the Indian government keep one woman on a 14-year hunger strike

Irom Sharmila, 42, has long advocated for the repeal of India’s Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or AFSPA, which gives the Indian army legal immunity for various brutal actions. She has been arrested again and again since starting a hunger strike in November 2000. “I have spent 14 years of my life chewing my tongue just for violence on all sides to end,” she has said.

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September 04, 2014 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture
“Lasso of Truth”
A new play takes a unique look at Wonder Woman—and the surprising man who created her.
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September 03, 2014 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Re-conceiving war: Stopping a cycle of violence depends on how we prioritize it

A young woman seems to have attached herself to me one day at Zaatari, a refugee camp holding at least 120,000 Syrians in the middle of the Jordanian desert. Her name is Abeer and she is the less obviously beautiful, older sister to a 16-year-old girl who has been married off to a much-older Libyan food distributor. He gave the girl a watch, perfume, and water when they met.

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September 02, 2014 | Chloe Hallinan | Education, Feminism, Gender-based violence, Violence against women
In Support of Self Defense Classes
Campus sexual assault is a harrowing issue: approximately one in five college women will experience attempted or completed rape while at school. Lawmakers of the American House and Senate have recentl...
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