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The Exploitation Of Women Of Color In Music Videos Needs To End
As a black feminist who is usually conscious of how normalized our misogynistic and often racist pop culture is, I am mostly displeased by the portrayal of black women in music videos. From Taylor Swi...
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#NoDAPL Is A Feminist Issue
For the past couple of months, I have watched with empathy and solidarity as a great number of Native Americans have been camping out on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. They have ...
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Freeing Mosul could be a death sentence for Iraqi women: A Q&A with Yanar Mohammed
In 2003, Yanar Mohammed decided she’d had enough. The war in Iraq was picking up steam, and she didn’t want to sit idly in Canada as her home country’s women and girls were being victimized in the turmoil. So, she packed up her bags and moved back to Baghdad to find a way to help.
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December 06, 2016 | Julie Graves |
Feminism
My Mom, The Feminist
It was my sophomore year of high school. On the first day of my AP World History class, the teacher progressed down the aisles of rickety desks, asking each student to say their favorite movie as a “...
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December 04, 2016 | Kayleigh Bolingbroke |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity,
Science and tech
This New Music Video Powerfully Took On Police Brutality
In 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. He was later acquitted of the crime. Two years later, Eric Garner was killed after being placed in a chok...
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December 04, 2016 | Yanick Rice Lamb |
Media
Gwen Ifill’s profound impact on African-American women journalists
The death of groundbreaking journalist Gwen Ifill was a stunning loss. She left a great legacy in the field, but her impact was especially profound for African-American journalists, especially women.
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December 01, 2016 | Kris Crews |
Feminism,
Race/Ethnicity
Experiencing Racist Microaggressions
"You don’t act like a black person,” I was told in middle school.
“What’s your favorite food? Fried chicken?” I was asked in high school.
“You have good hair for a black person, what are you mixed w...
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November 30, 2016 | Jewelles Smith |
Disability,
International,
Violence against women,
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Anti-violence programs need to do better by women with disabilities
Both the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence campaign and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities fall in this week—so now is a time for a call to action on behalf of disabled women and girls who experience violence and abuse.
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The incredible challenge of convicting the first man for rape as a weapon of war
Godeliève Mukasarasi promised God that if her children survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994, she would perform charitable acts. They lived. Soon after, the then 35-year-old social worker and mother founded SEVOTA, or Solidarity for the Development of Widows and Orphans to Promote Self-sufficiency and Livelihoods, a support group for women in the small Rwandan village of Taba.
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How To Go Forward With Love Post-Election
On November 9, I went to a watch party for the 2016 election. At first, it was full of hope and promise. We had spent the first half of our days giddy after filling in our very first ballots — ballots...
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Fighting Asian American Stereotypes
There’s a common myth that Asian Americans do not experience racism on as grand a level as do other people of color. While many Eastern Asians experience light skin privilege, and violations like poli...
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Wifey Material
It has been almost one hundred years since the Women’s Bureau was established in the Department of Labor. The Bureau aimed to promote the welfare of wage-earning women and for their rights to be respe...
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Councilwoman urges ‘no fear’ for girls in post-IS Fallujah
Little girls returning to school in Fallujah “have nothing to fear,” said Nahla al-Rawi as a few security officers dusted off a chair for her in the partially rehabilitated main hospital. Al-Rawi, 48, is a member of the Anbar provincial council, which is tasked with inspecting and overseeing public facilities such as schools and hospitals.
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Thankful For Planned Parenthood
100 years ago, a young woman named Margaret Sanger opened the first-ever birth control clinic in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Only ten days later, police raided the clinic and a...
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November 20, 2016 | Crystal Ogar |
Feminism
Redefine Weak
I’ve always been an emotional person. It’s something I haven’t been able to help, although at times I may have wanted to. Anger, passion, sensitivity, tears — it all naturally flows through me. I cry ...
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Women’s rebellion against religion
More American women are turning away from religion. Marcie Bianco explores why this bodes well for feminism.
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Single mothers in Malawi struggle to feed families as famine spreads
Mary Elias, of Laje village in Malawi’s southern Zomba district, speaks in metaphors. “We are carrying both water cans,” she says of the situation for single mothers in drought-ridden Malawi—meaning that women with children but without partners are solely responsible for feeding, clothing, and educating their progeny. Already a Sisyphean task in a country the United Nations Development Program regularly ranks in the top 20 poorest on earth, this has become nearly impossible in the past few years.
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Embracing Female Pleasure
I love talking about sex with my girlfriends. Describing the intimate, raw, and sometimes awkward moments of our experiences with sex strengthens our bonds as women and as human beings. We talk abou...
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Letting Compassion Win
Dear Mom,
On the eve of Election Day I was restless, unable to sleep. In an effort to find peace I wrote you a letter. Filled with nervous energy, I asked for you to be there with me, to help me stay...
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How Jane The Virgin Wonderfully Handled Abortion
*Spoilers below*
Jane the Virgin has been something of a crowd favorite since it debuted in 2014. But more than just entertaining its audience, the show has broken barriers regarding countless taboo ...
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Women put "climate change Ground Zero" in the picture
A group of women in the Indian region of Sundarbans are using photography to draw attention to the ravages of climate change in their villages.
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The Gender Safety Gap
I grew up and currently live in post-9/11 New York City. I don’t remember what the city was like before the attacks. I will never remember a city in which it wasn’t standard to see assault rifles in t...
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The Crucial Lessons Solange Teaches In 'A Seat At The Table'
2016 was Beyoncé's year. Her album Lemonade is inarguably one of the most profound cultural expressions of black femininity produced this year (and, let’s be honest, ever). Her thought-provoking lyric...
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Experiencing Racial Bias In Preschool
When I was in preschool I hated my skin. While I had bronze skin, brown eyes, and brown hair, my friends in preschool looked different. Most of them had fair skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. I thought...
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On Being Catholic and Pro-Choice
Many people might find the two identities I hold closest to be contradictory: I am a Catholic, but am also an ardent, sex-positive, Birkenstock-wearing feminist. But I don’t think these identities con...