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A Summer of Victory
It’s a dark night and I present the birthday girl with a bottle of cognac. She looks up at me, shocked, through heavy fake lashes fringing her eyes. “This is expensive,” she says after a pause. I slap...
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MTSS #6: Gym Class
Just renewing my love for the Midwest Teen Sex Show. This is seriously how sex education should be done, people would actually listen.
Oldie but goodie (and one of the only ones I feel comfortable a...
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July 13, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Education
Syracuse University Chancellor, Nancy Cantor: Interview
A few months ago I got the chance to sit down with Nancy Cantor, the chancellor of Syracuse University.
Chancellor Cantor is a pioneer in implementing student interaction with the City of Syracu...
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Gossip Round Up
I have no schedule for this feature. I do not live my life with regularity, sad-ish but true. Anyway, on with it.
UP passed the $280 mil mark, 2nd only to Finding Nemo of Pixar's movies (because Ell...
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Dr. Regina Benjamin Obama's Surgeon General Choice
Today, Obama announced that Dr. Regina Benjamin is his official choice for Surgeon General.
While the position does require senate confirmation, Dr. Benjamin has accomplished such impressive feats a...
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Popularity is genetic?
Remember that post I did about the relationship between popularity in high school and success in life? Well, guess what folks, the anonymous "researchers" are at it again, trying to prove hat populari...
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Tori Amos on men
Tori Amos just wrote a beautiful a piece for The Guardian's Observer. She speaks, as a victim of sexual assault, how her life was shaped by the incident, the dangers of masculinity standards and the m...
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feminism and dating
I get why guys are afraid of feminists. I do. Many of us just get so worked up about the issues we may be perceived as...well, bitchy. Of course we're not, we just care deeply about protecting and pro...
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KGOY "kids getting older younger"
It's pretty depressing how I'm used to waiting in the line for H&M or Forever 21's dressing room with middle schoolers. I look over, see a 9 year old with a tube top and low-riding jeans, and shru...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Meiko
Meiko, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia (population: 808), has the classic story of a girl with talent from a small town. She honed her skills by singing at church, little league baseball parks and...
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Lily Allen: closet feminist?
So Lily Allen's new music video just come out for her song 22. And it got me thinking. I've always listened to Lily Allen, and thought "there's just something about her I really, really like."
Peopl...
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retro Gloria
Just watch...she's always been awesome. I enjoy the use of the phrase "groovy chick."
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Life is NOT High School
New York Magazine is reporting about a new study. The study, sadly titled "Popularity," reports that how popular you were in high school actually does affect your success in later life.
My ass it do...
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Media Justice for Sotomayor
This is so ridiculous. The statement they're referring to? Sotomayor said in a speech, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a be...
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finally a feminist Judd Apatow
I always feel guilty when I watch Judd Apatow movies. It is true that they can be ridiculously funny. Knocked Up kept me laughing the entire time, even if the birth scene scarred me for life and inspi...
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