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Why Was I The One Who Was Ashamed?
The other day, I was home from college and sitting at the back table with my mother where we were talking about the state of the world. I had brought up an article sitting before me in The Week about ...
WMC News & Features
The Problems We Mothers Wish We Had
While the media focus on “Work-Family Dilemmas of the Rich and Famous,” the average employed mother has few resources and fewer choices, says the author of a new book, “The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation.”
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Every Minute of Every Day
I just received an e-mail from Ms. Magazine about their 'Countdown to 2015 Campaign'
The e-mail started with this sentence. "Every minute of every day, a woman or girl dies from complications of ...
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May 04, 2010 | Krystie Y |
Feminism
Manifesta, 10 Years Later
I was 10-years-old when Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards wrote ManifestA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, I was 17-years-old when I heard them speak about their feminist trademark at Barna...
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Nickels for Change
We would like to see some change in the world.
And that's why we have started Nickels for Change.
We go to a science and engineering school, chock full of boys who perpetuate rape culture. Rape joke...
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The Way We Talk About "Women's Lit"
Marketing demands and an underlying thread of sexism in the publishing industry work together to trivialize literature written by women, argues WMC Progressive Women’s Voices commentator Courtney Young.
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How Feminism Helps Everyone (Not Just The Women)
Feminism has changed and evolved throughout history; so has public regard towards it. From the suffragettes to the reproductive revolutionists, all feminists, though separated into many facets all hav...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: The Donnas
The Donnas are an American all-female rock band comprised of lead vocalist Brett Anderson (Donna A.), guitarist Allison Robertson (Donna R.), bassist Maya Ford (Donna F.), and drummer Torry Castel...
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How Are Teenage Girls Supposed to Identify as Feminists With These Role Models?
She’s staring at me like I’ve just insinuated she embodies the anti-Christ. “A feminist? No, I’m not a feminist. Oh my God.” Despite the fact that this classmate of mine just spent ten minutes ranting...
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April 28, 2010 | Jaded16 |
Feminism,
International
Being Indian AND A Feminist? Has The World As I Know It Come To An End?
I'm fairly new to this space called the "feminist blogosphere". My blog is just shy of being six months old and has recently become a tad bit famous over the last month or so. With this e-fame (howeve...
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Prom, Dresses and Body Image Issues
I’m looking for a prom dress at the moment. Okay, maybe I’m not. Perhaps a more accurate description of my current activities is that I’m writing this lot a rambling spiel, whilst conveniently skiving...
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Being An Ally
In December, I attended the National Association for Independent Schools’ Student Diversity Leadership Conference, which I blogged about here. This conference, which brought together high school stude...
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Prom and New Opportunities: Setting Ourselves Up To Fail?
My mother is a wonderful, funny woman. She has several interesting stories from her past which she shares with me, including one about prom. For her prom, she decided to go dressed in a long, powder b...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Ellen Page
A lot of people may criticize Juno, saying that it's an unrealistic portrayal of teen pregnancy (and these are valid claims) - but it's hard to deny how awesome Ellen Page was in that movie. She's fun...
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April 22, 2010 | Jessica S |
Feminism,
Health,
International,
Politics,
Religion,
Violence against women
Nicaraguan Government and Restrictive Abortion Laws
I recently read an article about how the Nicaraguan government is denying cancer treatment to a women because she is pregnant. This is only the latest outrage in a country that has the most restrictiv...
WMC News & Features
Saving the Earth: What Science Can’t Accomplish
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the author describes how women have worked to break through the seemingly impervious bureaucracy at the UN to finally impress on world leaders that saving the earth depends on guaranteeing women equal rights and status.
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Bunnies and The Morning After Pill
March 23rd was the one year anniversary of a major victory the Center for Reproductive Rights won against the FDA. A federal court rule that the FDA "acted in bad faith and in response to political pr...
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The Asking
It’s time for prom! I’ve refused to go prom all these years but decided to go this year since it’s my senior year. Besides, the prospect of mocktails is just too much to decline…
Anyway, I’m always f...
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The Paycheck Fairness Act: Now an Economic Imperative
On this Equal Pay Day, the author, executive director of the national education equity organization AAUW, argues that the nation’s recovery from the Great Recession depends on fair pay for women.
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The Runaways (Filmed and Real)
Yesterday, I went to see the movie The Runaways. I am simultaneously a huge fan of Dakota Fanning and Joan Jett herself while not such a huge fan of Kristen Stewart, and wasn't entirely sure what to e...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Rachel Roy and Jennifer Venditti
So, I recently got an e-mail in regards to SWAS - a regular feature on the FBomb. A reader asked why SWAS was restricted only to musicians...and basically I could think of no other answer than, "I'm r...
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April 15, 2010 | Christina B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Equality
I am a face of change
No you are not deranged
Change of what? you ask
Change that the underanged see
Female Stereotypes
I am still a face of change
And you are still not deranged
You tell me you don’...
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Male Studies (As Opposed to Women's Studies)
On Monday, the New York Times reported about the creation of a "Male Studies" program at Wagner College in Staten Island.
Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institu...
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B-Listed interviews Nancy Lublin
A while back B-Listed (which, if you don't know is this really cool pop-culture human rights blog aimed at influencing the media) interviewed Nancy Lublin, who I think is really rad.
Basically, Nancy...
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“The Heretics”: Women of the Heresies Collective
The author interviews the maker of a documentary that captures a prolific period of feminist art, focusing on the collective as, according to the film web site, “a microcosm of the larger international women’s movement, in which thousands of small, private groups of women met together in forms unique to their own settings.”