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June 21, 2016 | David Guirgis | Media, Race/Ethnicity
The Problem With Gossiping About Beyoncé and 'Lemonade'
We are now almost two months into the post-Lemonade universe, and it still seems the biggest public conversation the album has inspired is a debate about the true identity of "Becky with the good hair...
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June 20, 2016 | Karla Majdancic | Feminism, Misogyny, Science and tech
Praise Young Girls For Being 'Smart,' Not 'Pretty'
For a long time, whenever I pictured an engineer I automatically imagined a guy who looked something like Mark Zuckerberg. I never imagined an engineer could be someone who looks like me. There are li...
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June 17, 2016 | Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026) | Feminism, Politics
Changing history to herstory: Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Women’s Movement

WMC cofounder Robin Morgan takes stock of what Hillary Clinton's nomination means—and what we have to look forward to as she takes on Donald Trump in the general election.

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June 16, 2016 | Aya | Feminism, Violence against women
How The Stanford Survivor Helped Me Understand My Own Assault
TW: This article contains discussion and description of sexual assault. In January of 2015, 20-year-old, former Stanford University student Brock Allen Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious woman b...
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June 15, 2016 | Sadie Hernandez | Feminism, Health, Politics
This Is Why We Need To Share Our Abortion Stories
"Remarkably Normal," a play by Jessi Blue Gormezano, is an artistic manifestation of the reality of abortion. The play presents a series of first-hand abortion stories which depict the incredibly comm...
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June 13, 2016 | David Guirgis | Feminism, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
What The Orlando Shooting Means To Me As A Queer Teen
On Sunday night, I couldn’t cry. I didn’t know how to — it was as if every resource I had to deal with deep, inescapable grief had been disabled. I felt short-circuited, wired and rewired out of my cu...
WMC News & Features
June 10, 2016 | Joanne Edgar | Disability, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Patricia Derian, human rights pioneer: A personal appreciation

The author, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine and longtime journalist and advocate, remembers how she was inspired by civil and human rights activist Patricia Derian, who died last month.

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June 09, 2016 | Kinder L | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Science and tech
#Fitspo: Inspirational or Harmful?
Whether you’re a Tumblr fanatic, an avid Twitter user, or Instagram-obsessed like I am, it’s probably safe to assume you’ve seen posts captioned with the hashtag "#fitspiration" come across your News ...
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June 08, 2016 | Samantha B | Feminism, Misogyny, Science and tech
The Truth About Gender Bias On The Internet
Siri does not know how to respond to the question "I have been sexually assaulted." When searching for abortion clinics on Apple Maps, one is instead shown adoption clinics. Finding a clinic or pharma...
WMC Women Under Siege
June 08, 2016 | Kiran Nazish | International, Violence against women
Essential tools for reporting in Mexico: a notebook, camera, and contraceptive pill

It was May, and I was at the Club de Periodistas de Mexico (Mexico Press Club), speaking with a group of female crime journalists in Mexico City about the challenges they face while reporting in the country.

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June 06, 2016 | David Guirgis | Feminism, Misogyny, Violence against women
The Stanford Rape Case Exemplifies The Privilege At The Heart of Rape Culture
Brock Turner, a top swimmer at Stanford who raped an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after a party, was sentenced to six months in county jail on Thursday. The presiding judge felt that a full sen...
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June 06, 2016 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, Media
Grace and Frankie's new season pushes new boundaries

In its second season, the Netflix series "Grace and Frankie" has its most feminist moment yet, portraying the right to death with a mix of gravity and levity.

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June 02, 2016 | Reilly W | Feminism, Violence against women
What The Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act Means For Survivors
There has perhaps never been more visibility about the experiences of sexual assault survivors than in the past few years. From the work of organizations like End Rape on Campus and Know Your IX, to t...
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June 01, 2016 | Gabby C | Feminism, Politics
Oklahoma's Attempt To Criminalize Abortion Reminded Me To Be Vocally Pro-Choice
On May 20th, the Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill that would criminalize abortion by revoking abortion doctors' medical licenses. Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm, who authorized the bill, defende...
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May 31, 2016 | Anuradha Sengupta | International
Tea and selfies driving a revolution in Pakistan

After its first year, a movement in Pakistan to claim public spaces for women continues to grow—and it's finding allies and inspiration in India and throughout South Asia.

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May 29, 2016 | Minnah Stein | Education, Feminism, Violence against women
The Question All Prospective Students Should Ask Colleges
Not too long ago, my parents dragged me to a lecture about the college admissions process. As a sophomore, I wasn't all that interested in this information yet, but as soon as the lights dimmed and th...
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May 26, 2016 | Gina S | Body image and body standards, Feminism
Is It Possible To Help Friends Through Their Body Image Issues?
We all have body image demons, but some of us host demons that are louder than others. Some are lucky enough that their demons only appear on universally hellish occasions — like when standing in fron...
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May 24, 2016 | Lily A | Feminism, Violence against women
Both Hands: Reflecting On A Manipulative Relationship
I started dating a guy about a week into my freshman year of college. He was, and still is, brilliantly creative and blisteringly intelligent. He thought I was unbearably pretty and we had our first s...
WMC Women Under Siege
May 24, 2016 | Uraidah Hassani | Girls, International, Violence against women
Improving post-conflict development outcomes: Empowering adolescent girls
Post-conflict development efforts cannot afford to forget about adolescent youth. While all youth face certain challenges in adolescence, girls are constrained in different, and often more detrimental, ways than boys, particularly in post-conflict settings.
WMC News & Features
May 23, 2016 | Chagmion Antoine | Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
"If you do not do right by black women, this nation is doomed to fail.”

At the Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, women and men broke silence about sexual violence and worked toward forgiveness, healing, and justice.

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May 22, 2016 | Rachael H | Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Science and tech, Violence against women
Is A Digital Tool The Key To Addressing Campus Sexual Assault?
The stark reality of the high rate of sexual assault on college campuses is nothing new, and neither is college administrations’ resistance to addressing it. Far too many students continue to seek sup...
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May 19, 2016 | Zoe R | Feminism, Girls, Media, Science and tech
How Social Media Has Shaped My Feminist Identity
At the age of 13, I discovered feminism. Like so many other girls, I found the movement on Tumblr — a platform that has gained a reputation for fostering radical views about equality and tolerance. Tu...
WMC Women Under Siege
May 18, 2016 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
The actual state of sexualized violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

When the Democratic Republic of Congo was dubbed the “rape capital of the world” in 2010 by Margot Wallström, the former UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, understandably the government of DRC was not happy. Besides that, putting one country above all others when it comes to violence against women is a debatable move: So many places have horrifying records of rape and impunity for such cases. But Wallström had good reason for aiming her words at what is unambiguously a truly terrible place for women.

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May 17, 2016 | Emma Havighorst | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media, Science and tech
Comparing Kim Kardashian to Ayesha Curry Hurts Us All
Our society has long been obsessed with comparison. Girls are routinely pit against each other to "win" the supposed honor of being the "hottest" in the halls of their high schools. They're even encou...
WMC News & Features
May 17, 2016 | Naomi Ishisaka | Arts and culture, Race/Ethnicity
Works by black women take center stage

Opportunities for women of color are as rare in U.S. theater as they are in Hollywood. But one regional theater is defying the odds with a festival devoted to works by Black women.


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