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February 28, 2012 | Yifat Susskind | International, Violence against women
Haiti’s women face echoes of a violent past

After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, stories of the disaster dominated international news media. Journalists rushed to report on the wreckage. Photographers scrambled for shots of the rubble. Aid agencies struggled to overcome obstacles to sending humanitarian aid.

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February 28, 2012 | Jessica Klein | Education, Girls, Health
Girls Get Called “Slut” Everyday—They Could Be Making Friends Instead
Jessie Klein, author of "The Bully Society," writes that girls need help in building trusting relationships.
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February 26, 2012 | Becka W | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media
Why I Seriously Dig Katniss Everdeen
WARNING: Spoilers for the entire Hunger Games series ahead! For months, three of my friends were begging me to get into the Hunger Games. “You’ll LOVE Katniss,” they all told me. “She’s such a strong...
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February 26, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | Feminism, Online harassment
A hacker told me to return to the kitchen; I didn’t go
It’s been an interesting couple of days. Gloria Steinem (our project’s founder) and I wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about what we’re calling the “cult of masculinity” and its role in rape in conflict and gang violence. The reaction to the op-ed, however, wasn’t pretty.
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February 24, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media
Saturday Vids: Awesome Teen On Relationships
densing11 on "our culture's expectancy of marriage & relationship and how it affects the self-worth of particularly younger girls." Some damn good advice. ...
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February 24, 2012 | Javier Zurita, Ofelia de Pablo | International, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
The invisible genocide of women

More than 100,000 women were raped in the 36-years Guatemalan genocide—at least 200,000 people died. In this video, photojournalists Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita interview survivors and document the ongoing forensic and legal investigation that recently indicted former Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt.

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February 24, 2012 | Gloria Steinem, Lauren Wolfe | Gloria Steinem, Misogyny, Violence against women
Sexual violence against women is the result of the cult of masculinity
Gangs of young men rape girls. They also sometimes act as pimps that seduce a girl, then subject her to gang rape or otherwise insist that she sexually service gang members. Some girls are so desperate for acceptance and so convinced by sexual abuse that they have no other value: they see this as inevitable.
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February 23, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Education, Feminism
A Feminist Rushes A Sorority
When I thought about what my college experience would be like as a high schooler, I never for a second even slightly entertained the faintest thought of joining a sorority. As a self-identified femini...
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February 23, 2012 | Ellen Sweet | Education, Violence against women
Date Rape Revisited
Twenty-five years after an historic campus study, why are colleges still struggling to deal with the problem?
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February 22, 2012 | Cara Hoffman | Feminism, Media, Violence against women
Bringing the war home: How perpetrators from the U.S. to DRC get away with rape

I worked for many years as a reporter in upstate New York, where I covered local news like school board meetings and did features on things like watercolor exhibits at one-room libraries in one-traffic-light villages.

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February 21, 2012 | LodB | Economy, Education, Feminism
Doctors, Nurses And One Terrific Professor
Recently, I was taking a course on linguistics, and we were discussing syntax. My professor asked the class-- a room of roughly a hundred English students, mostly female-- what pronoun to use when rep...
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February 21, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | International, Violence against women
The safest prey: When refugee camps become sites of violence

Even war is safer than this. Imagine it: Your family attacked. Your house teeming with soldiers. Your options running out. A protected area for victims of war sounds like a wise place to flee.

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February 21, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Media, Violence against women
CPJ: More discussion but few changes on sexual violence
When word went around that a mob had sexually assaulted CBS correspondent and CPJ board member Lara Logan, at left, in Cairo's Tahrir Square in February 2011, the media jumped on the specifics: Why was the press release about her assault so precise?
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February 20, 2012 | Dr. Martha Lauzen | Arts and culture, Media
Oscar and the Usual Suspects
Women's absence from Best Director nominees only reflects the industry's dismal hiring statistics, as demonstrated in the author's annual Celluloid Ceiling study.
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February 19, 2012 | Rinckey R | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media, Misogyny
Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly"
As Grand Rapids, Michigan yawned good morning at 7:45 am and the sun began blinking hello, I sat in my human sexuality and relationships class, watching one of the best videos I have ever seen in an a...
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