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November 30, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Health,
Media,
Politics
Reproductive Rights: The Stuff That Got Left Out In School
This year in school, I'm taking an elective called Gender, Culture, Power (pretty badass, right?). We've covered all kinds of feminist topics from gender stereotypes to domestic violence to sex traffi...
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An Interview with Selena Torrado
A few weeks ago, I met Selena Torrado, a teen living in New York who started her own high school feminist club called Femtastic! I was ecstatic to see that someone shared my passion for reaching out t...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Thao Nguyen
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down is a San Francisco, California-based (formerly Falls Church, Virginia) alternative folk rock music group. It consists of Thao Nguyen (vocals, guitar), Adam Thompson (b...
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Saturday Vids: I Am This Land Video Contest
Breakthrough is thrilled to announce the launch of the I AM THIS LAND video contest, a campaign that aims to start conversations about diversity, acceptance and the future of this country. I AM THIS L...
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Faster Tonight
Girls always believe in
things told in whispers. And the
circuits connecting tangential fields of
stars and fingertips holed
in alphabets slip across rained in minds in a circumcision
of pleasure...
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"Feminist" Advertisements: Exploitation or Progress?
Peggy Orenstein’s “The Way We Live Now” piece in New York Times Magazine a couple months ago explores what she calls the “empowerment mystique,” or using themes of girl power to sell products that hav...
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Get Back in the Kitchen
The age old joke along the lines of ‘woman, get back to the kitchen,’ is pretty much thrown about on the internet and in real life. As a seventeen year old girl, I’ve come into contact with boys who t...
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A Good Virus: Social Media Storytelling
National governments are not the only means for sparking change, as this year's Omega Institute Women and Power Conference emphasized. Author and media producer Kathleen Sweeney asked participants how activists can develop their power through social media.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith (born Paloma Faith Blomfield; 21 July 1985) is a British singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she released her debut single "Stone Cold Sober", then her debut album, Do You Want the Tr...
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November 12, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Girls,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Online harassment,
Politics,
Violence against women
Saturday Vids: Best of "It Gets Better"
I'm sure a lot of you have seen at least one "It Gets Better" video. If you haven't, it's basically a project initiated to show LGBT youth that are struggling with their sexuality, and can't imagine...
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Not So Gleeful: What's Wrong With GQ's Latest Shoot
So, I know this is kind of dated, but please make fun of me, consider my humble excuse of being a senior coming up on college application deadlines, and then attempt to enjoy!
The reaction from femin...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Sky Larkin
Sky Larkin is a three piece indie band from Leeds, United Kingdom who formed in 2005.The band consists of Katie Harkin (Lead Singer, Guitar), Doug Adams (Bass), Nestor Matthews (Drums...
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Saturday Vids: Vag Magazine
Vag Magazine is a new web comedy created and written by Leila Cohan-Miccio and Caitlin Tegart. Vag Magazine takes place behind the scenes of Vag, a hipster third wave feminist magazine a la Bust. Vag ...
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Teenage Girls: Uninterested in Politics?
In the past few weeks leading up to election day, I’ve found it impossible to turn on the T.V. and not find myself face to face with an incredibly unflattering photo of a political candidate, with a v...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: The Puppini Sisters
Deja vu is a sensation that can give you the jitters, that's why The Puppini Sisters, a trio from England, deliver for a special Spooky version of SWAS this week. The Puppini Sisters do a 1940s harmon...
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Saturday Vids: Gender Roles Reversed
I think this video was made for a Gender Studies class...not sure for what school (kudos to whoever made it!) I love how it gives life to statistics that after a while go in one ear and out the other....
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October 27, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity
My Feminist Photo Shoot
By now, some of you may be aware that I (on behalf of this here ole' webblog) was recently chosen as one of 12 "new" feminists by More Magazine. Obviously, this is an amazing honor, and the fact that ...
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Finding What's Right for You
In the midst of all the drama about the media’s effect on the sanity and bodies of young women, it’s nice to hear that some people are doing things right. It’s even nicer when those people are my frie...
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What Does Christine O’Donnel Mean for Feminism?
First off, in all seriousness, I’d like to congratulate O’Donnel for making it this far in politics. It’s definitely not an easy game, particularly for women. Politics is still, unfortunately, largely...
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Too Sexual or Not Sexual Enough?
I recently saw a commercial for lingerie football. Basically, it's a bunch of "hot"women running around playing tackle football in their underwear. At first I was appalled. Why is it that women don...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Nicole Reynolds
Nicole Reynolds is a singer/songwriter, and a traveler without a home, at least for now. She has just released (December 2009) her fourth full studio record, “A Fine Set of Fools,” after mostly being ...
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Saturday Vids: Good Girls Don't Get Fat
Originally embedded in Rose M's post, this video about Dr. Robyn Silverman's book Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls & How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It sh...
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Gender Policing and Justin Bieber
"What is Justin Bieber doing out of the Kitchen?"
"It is an offence that we need to share the same gender as Justin Bieber"
"If Justin Bieber was a woman...oh wait, never mind"
"Leave Justi...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: The Pipettes
The Pipettes are a British indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton. The group has released two albums, We Are the Pipettes, and Earth vs. The Pipettes and released numerous singles to support ...
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Saturday Vids: Tegan & Sara Speak Out
Recently, Annie Barr from The [i4c] Campaign - an interactive campaign that seeks to create a better tomorrow by supporting change-making entrepreneurs - interviewed the awesome duo Tegan and Sara (ch...