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Homecoming Week Montgomery Blair High School Style
My name is Diane A, and I lead the Women's Advocacy Group at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring Maryland. One of our most active members, Nellie B, is already a contributor to the f-bomb.
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Bust Magazine: Ellen, Alia and Teens oh my!
Every so often, a magical thing happens. I open the mailbox and buried beneath bills that have no relevance to me and the catalogues that try to sell me more useless crap, there is Bust Magazine. Toda...
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Woman on Woman Crime
Women beware. I have seen the face of the enemy and she is us.
Allow me to introduce you to the Queen Bee and the Female Chauvinist Pig. If you haven’t already met, trust me, you will.
The Queen Be...
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exercising the right to be sexy
Halloween season has begun. Today, I went to the brand new Halloween Store that opened two metro stops away from campus with my friend Lauren, and I did a tally of all the “sexy” things I had the opti...
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Growing Up Different
This is a story of growing up different
of growing up wrong.
you are a young child playing in the park and a stranger asks your mother if that's her little girl
and she frowns and says
no, my son
but...
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The Girl Effect
The Girl Effect
Change
Share...
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Life Without a Life Mate
I’m on a number of social networking sites, and on some of these, there are introduction threads. On one of these, they asked us state our long term goals and I wrote what I considered to be the basic...
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Grinding
I had been at college for three days, and my friends and I were anticipating the First Chance Dance, an annual tradition meant to facilitate fun and friendship during the notoriously uncomfortable ori...
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GR!C: Day 6...Final Performance at The Metro!
Seeing your show on the marquee of a venue that’s hosted bands like The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The White Stripes is pretty thrilling. And seeing people line up ...
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GR!C: Day 5
Xenia and I are a few minutes late today, and when we get to the cafeteria, everyone has paper taped to their backs and are running around with markers. We soon learn that you’re supposed to write on...
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GR!C: Day 4
Our song is nearly finished! Yay! We pretty much had the music down since day one, except for the last minute bass solo/bridge I added yesterday. The lyrics, on the other hand, were only finalized ...
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September 09, 2009 | Shelan O |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
Media,
Violence against women
GR!C: Day 3
Our band finally has a name and a logo, which will be screened onto shirts, so each band has merch. Sweet! It had been down to Electric Field Trip or On The Fritz, but fate...took another course...(d...
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GR!C: Day 2
I’ve been moved to a new bass class, which is awesome because now I have Allison as my teacher! Allison was my drum teacher last year, and has been with the camp since the beginning, so we’re old p...
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GR!C: Day 1
I woke up at 5:40 am, raring to go. My sister, Xenia, who has been pretty low-key in expressing her enthusiasm, literally danced into the bathroom singing “Good morning, good morning, good morning to...
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Are You Ready to Rock?? GR!C 2009
Julie: Hey FBombers. This week, I'm handing the fbomb over to the super rad Shélan O. She participated in this year's Girls Rock! Chicago - a week-long summer camp program for girls ages 9-16 that mot...
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September 03, 2009 | Nellie B |
Feminism
Dealing with Terms of "Endearment"
As I began my senior year of high school yesterday, I was reminded of how frustrating it is to be young and female at the mercy of patronizing teachers.
Now, many of my teachers are fine people who ...
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"Sexism, Strength and Dominance: Masculinity in Disney Films"
Here are a few videos I found about sexism and racism in Disney films.
I do want to acknowledge that YESSSS a lot of these movies were made a "long time ago." Y'know like a couple of decades. But...
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RIP Ted Kennedy
This past Tuesday night, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died at 77.
Ted Kennedy really was a great senator, and accomplished some really incredible things. He authored more than 2,500 bi...
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Go Topless Day?
Did you know that August 23rd is Go Topless Day?
While browsing the internet today, I came upon an interesting website: gotopless.org
They are a US organization claiming that women have the s...
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The New Miss Universe Thinks We're Post-Feminism
Stefania Fernandez, the 18-year-old Miss. Venezuela, won the 2009 Miss Universe crown on Sunday.
Normally, I'd probably just sigh and say something sassy. To me, the reasons why beauty pageants ar...
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August 23, 2009 | Becka W |
Feminism,
International
The Right to Choose vs. The Right to Survival
I was recently in China from 7/17 – 8/2 on a family vacation (we take some pretty unique vacations, haha). We went on this fabulous tour from Shanghai to Wuhan to a 5-day Cruise down the Yangtze River...
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Glamour Magazine's September Issue Gets it Right
I do not read Glamour magazine. My sister's friend, however, does. So when flipping through the September issue with them, I was happy to see this:
A non-airbrushed photo of model Lizzie Miller.
M...
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The Archie-type
When I was in third or fourth grade, my Dad brought home an Archie comic, with some kind of sentiment like, "These used to be around when I was little!" I vividly remember being confused by phrases su...
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Percentage of Women Who Believe It's OK For Husbands To Hit Them
Image via Global Health Magazine
Just in case you haven't seen this chart yet (via Jezebel and Feministing) it depicts the percentage of women who believe that their partner would be justified in h...
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it's funny cuz it's true...?
Apparently, there’s a whole range of animated sketches about Jordanians (and Arabs in general) up on Youtube. Now, I’m not saying they’re not humorous at all—a lot of people think they’re absolutely h...