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October 24, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins front-tress Heather B. Heywood grew up in the ghetto-rural outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama in the home of her step-father, a charismatic Pentecostal preacher. Most of the congrega...
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October 23, 2009 | Jenni Prokopy | Health, Politics
Chronic Illness and Health Care Reform: I’m Too Tired to Fight This By Myself
Health care reform, crucial to all of us, is especially important to the chronically ill, who need coverage of “maintenance medicine”—everyday care that can be guaranteed in a national system. The author is doing all she can, but she needs some help.
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October 22, 2009 | Lauren M | Arts and culture, Feminism
Femininity
I am the clatter of stilettos on concrete, The sheen of glittering clothes, Bathrooms foggy with hairspray and perfume, The pink ribbon tangled in your hair, Threaded between your teeth. I am your ar...
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October 22, 2009 | Suzanne Braun Levine | Feminism, Media
“Why Aren’t You Smiling, Honey?”
The media and the blog world have been discussing women’s “happiness” quotient since a headlined Huffington Post item offered cumulated poll data indicating they weren’t. The author, who writes about and speaks to women now in their fifties and sixties, reports that she hears quite a different story.
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October 21, 2009 | Nellie B | Education, Feminism
It's a Woman's College, Not a Girl's School
In the fall of my senior year, as I fill out the endless applications, I can look back on those endless college visits and breathe a sigh of relief at being done.  No more awkward waits in reception a...
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October 21, 2009 | Roxanne Mankin Cason | Education, International
The Inflection Point for the World's Girls and Women
The author is attending a global seminar this week in Salzburg, “Smart Change: Investing in Women and Girls, Leveraging Philanthropy for Global Impact,” to produce an international agenda for action. She argues that, in terms of gender, the world has reached an “inflection point,” when old patterns collapse and new ones emerge.
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October 20, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, International, Media
Artificial Virginity?
In this nation so full of blatantly sexualized imagery, it's hard not to feel numb when talking about sex. From the pretty graphic jokes that circulate through my high school (and, of this I'm sure, e...
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October 19, 2009 | Kate S | Education, Feminism, Girls
Painting Pastel
I attend an independent boarding school with some caliber. Wait, I lied. I attend a set of schools: one for the boys, one for the girls. Students are admitted through an application process. The tuiti...
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October 18, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger | Media
Support Women Artists Sunday (On Monday!): Chix 6
Okay, I keep dropping the ball on Sundays. It's mostly because that's when I get more than 4 hours of sleep and do work for SCHOOL (not the fbomb...school...weird). Anyway, I've been following this ...
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October 16, 2009 | Magda K | Feminism, Media
Mookychick Banned For Adult Content
Three years ago, I founded Mookychick.co.uk as an alternative online finishing school. I believed that, hey, all alternative girls are linked by curiousity, intelligence and a tiny feeling of 'the out...
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October 15, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media
Julie Z on Feminist Magazine Radio
Wednesday night, I was a guest on Feminist Magazine Radio! Feminist Magazine Radio is "on the air to educate, advocate, inform, and entertain through a variety of feminist lenses.  We provide the tool...
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October 15, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media
Ralph Lauren...WTF?
Ralph Lauren has created some seriously disturbingly photoshopped ads lately: Ralph Lauren's defense? They released this statement: For over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and inte...
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October 15, 2009 | Gloria Steinem | Feminism, Media
It’s Not a Man’s World or a Woman’s Nation
You’re going to be seeing a multimedia blitz about a new national study of women’s status called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Gloria Steinem gives you a preview of this project created by Maria Shriver and a D.C. think tank, and suggests ways you can use it and also judge its success.
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October 14, 2009 | Dara K | Feminism, Media
The Boy's Club of Comedy
Last night, at a stand up open mike, a kid I’d met just before doing my set told me afterward, “Nice job! I didn’t think you’d be funny!”  I didn’t take this offensively.  It was a compliment - a “NEG...
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October 13, 2009 | Sharmeen Akbani Gangat | Arts and culture, International
Gender Discrimination in Filmmaking—Bollywood Style
Moviemaking styles may vary between Hollywood and Bollywood, but women working in the Indian commercial film industry have as difficult a time as their counterparts in the United States getting good roles and investment in their films. Director Zoya Akhtar takes a satiric look in Luck by Chance.
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