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December 12, 2016 | Maysoon Zayid | Arts and culture, Disability, Media, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Comedians, courage, and truth in a world of online harassment

Maysoon Zayid has fearlessly performed truth-telling comedy all over the world. With the threats to free speech in the current climate in the U.S., she argues, such courage is more important than ever.

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December 11, 2016 | Faatimah Solomon | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media, Race/Ethnicity
The Exploitation Of Women Of Color In Music Videos Needs To End
As a black feminist who is usually conscious of how normalized our misogynistic and often racist pop culture is, I am mostly displeased by the portrayal of black women in music videos. From Taylor Swi...
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December 08, 2016 | Karla Majdancic | Environment, Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
#NoDAPL Is A Feminist Issue
For the past couple of months, I have watched with empathy and solidarity as a great number of Native Americans have been camping out on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. They have ...
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December 07, 2016 | Elspeth Dehnert | International, Violence against women
Freeing Mosul could be a death sentence for Iraqi women: A Q&A with Yanar Mohammed
In 2003, Yanar Mohammed decided she’d had enough. The war in Iraq was picking up steam, and she didn’t want to sit idly in Canada as her home country’s women and girls were being victimized in the turmoil. So, she packed up her bags and moved back to Baghdad to find a way to help.
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December 06, 2016 | Julie Graves | Feminism
My Mom, The Feminist
It was my sophomore year of high school. On the first day of my AP World History class, the teacher progressed down the aisles of rickety desks, asking each student to  say their favorite movie as a “...
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December 04, 2016 | Kayleigh Bolingbroke | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media, Race/Ethnicity, Science and tech
This New Music Video Powerfully Took On Police Brutality
In 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. He was later acquitted of the crime. Two years later, Eric Garner was killed after being placed in a chok...
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December 04, 2016 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Media
Gwen Ifill’s profound impact on African-American women journalists

The death of groundbreaking journalist Gwen Ifill was a stunning loss. She left a great legacy in the field, but her impact was especially profound for African-American journalists, especially women.

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December 01, 2016 | Kris Crews | Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
Experiencing Racist Microaggressions
"You don’t act like a black person,” I was told in middle school. “What’s your favorite food? Fried chicken?” I was asked in high school. “You have good hair for a black person, what are you mixed w...
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November 30, 2016 | Jewelles Smith | Disability, International, Violence against women, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Anti-violence programs need to do better by women with disabilities

Both the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence campaign and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities fall in this week—so now is a time for a call to action on behalf of disabled women and girls who experience violence and abuse.

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November 30, 2016 | Chagmion Antoine | International, Violence against women
The incredible challenge of convicting the first man for rape as a weapon of war
Godeliève Mukasarasi promised God that if her children survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994, she would perform charitable acts. They lived. Soon after, the then 35-year-old social worker and mother founded SEVOTA, or Solidarity for the Development of Widows and Orphans to Promote Self-sufficiency and Livelihoods, a support group for women in the small Rwandan village of Taba.
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November 29, 2016 | Kami Baker | Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Politics, Race/Ethnicity
How To Go Forward With Love Post-Election
On November 9, I went to a watch party for the 2016 election. At first, it was full of hope and promise. We had spent the first half of our days giddy after filling in our very first ballots — ballots...
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November 27, 2016 | Leanne Yuen | Feminism, Media, Race/Ethnicity
Fighting Asian American Stereotypes
There’s a common myth that Asian Americans do not experience racism on as grand a level as do other people of color. While many Eastern Asians experience light skin privilege, and violations like poli...
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November 22, 2016 | Farha Khalidi | Feminism, Media, Misogyny
Wifey Material
It has been almost one hundred years since the Women’s Bureau was established in the Department of Labor. The Bureau aimed to promote the welfare of wage-earning women and for their rights to be respe...
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November 22, 2016 | Shelly Kittleson | Girls, International, Violence against women
Councilwoman urges ‘no fear’ for girls in post-IS Fallujah
Little girls returning to school in Fallujah “have nothing to fear,” said Nahla al-Rawi as a few security officers dusted off a chair for her in the partially rehabilitated main hospital. Al-Rawi, 48, is a member of the Anbar provincial council, which is tasked with inspecting and overseeing public facilities such as schools and hospitals.
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November 21, 2016 | Angela Liu | Feminism, Health
Thankful For Planned Parenthood
100 years ago, a young woman named Margaret Sanger opened the first-ever birth control clinic in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Only ten days later, police raided the clinic and a...
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