WMC News & Features
November 23, 2010 | Valerie Plame Wilson |
Politics
Arms Treaty Must Not Be Derailed
Author and former covert CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career protecting national security is depicted in the new movie "Fair Game," issues an urgent plea to the Senate to ratify the New START treaty without delay.
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Formspring and Feminism
Bullying has been an issue that has been affecting our country for a long time, but has recently recaptured our nation. Lets face it, some people are mean. It seems, however, that children and teenage...
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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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Documenting Late-Term Abortion
Journalist Catherine Epstein talks to two documentarians about their film on late-term abortion and their motives for creating it.
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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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My First Heartbreak: How Feminism Got Me Through It
This past week my boyfriend dumped me. Now, under normal circumstances, recovery would have been simple. At first, I'd turn the radio randomly to any given pop song where a lyric about "looking into e...
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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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November 14, 2010 | Emily S |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Violence against women
Reclaiming The Night
On Thursday, November 11, 2010, I took back the night. Joined by a small group of passionate college women, I marched across my campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to protest the...
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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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Selfsploitation
"Selfsploitation" delves into the psychology of sending sexually suggestive photos of one's self by cellphone or posting them on social websites. The project includes drawings (some can be seen below)...
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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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November 10, 2010 | Sharmeen Akbani Gangat |
Religion
Islam: Religion of Peace or Violence?
Pakistani American commentator Sharmeen Gangat explores how terrorists' vision of Islam is so vastly at odds with the Muslim tradition that nurtured her.
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Fair Pay Isn't Always Equal Pay...Right?
The Senate is considering a bill that would make it easier for women to sue their employers for wage discrimination on the basis of sex. While the bill has received support from women’s organizations ...
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November 08, 2010 | Talia |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Violence against women
Why Couldn't I Say "Rape"
One of my extremely good friends is finishing out her high school career abroad, and I spent the weekend at her apartment with some other friends as a send-off party before she left. When we were disc...
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How War Trounces Women's Rights
In her new book "Unmaking War, Remaking Men," feminist sociologist Kathleen Barry argues that by demanding a violent and aggressive masculinity—literally making men expendable—war precludes equality for women.
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Are Chivalry and Feminism Incompatible?
This summer, I had doors opened for me, was ushered into rooms ahead of my male counterparts, and was even offered a spot in line ahead of the boys. I attended an amazing international program where I...
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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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November 04, 2010 | Tessa G |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Fallen
I am in their house, his house, but the doors are twice my height. I leave our sisters and go upstairs, looking for him. He is using the computer in the kitchen and I sit next to him, on the same chai...
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The Entitlement List
Entitlement: belief that one is deserving of certain privileges
When men are invading your space (at the supermarket, jogging, the bank, lunch line) and think it's okay.
“Nice guys” who f...