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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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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 22, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Jenny Owen Youngs
Born in New Jersey in 1981 and raised in the usual suburban surroundings, Youngs first picked up the guitar at the age of 14 and attended the music program at the State University of New York at Pur...
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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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August 15, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Little Jackie
Blend the old-school R&B sound with a quirky hybrid of hip-hop and pop and you get Little Jackie, the creation of genre-defying singer-songwriter Imani Coppola and collaborator Adam Pallin.
Th...
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August 14, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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They tried that in the 90's
I'm always complaining about how Gossip Girl and 90210 and that crap are completely unrealistic to teenagers' lives. They depict angst...but not the angst we feel - the superficial angst that everybod...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Bikini Kill
It's baaaaaaack.
This week - a little history lesson. The post on Care Bears on Fire, and the comments about the riot grrrl movement got me thinking. Most girls my age don't even know what the riot ...
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The Sodini Killings
You probably have already heard about the kilings that took place by the hand of George Sodini in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania on Tuesday night.
Sodini, a 48-year-old man entered an LA Fitness center ...
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Care Bears on Fire
It was a summer afternoon like any other. I was sprawled across the couch with a pack of twizzlers in one hand and a large iced coffee in the other, two food-items that are essential to my survival. T...
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Assiya Rafiq is my hero
Assiya Rafiq of Pakistan was sold at 16 by a female family friend to two criminals who were related to prominent politicians. The men beat and raped her for the next year, un...
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Twitter and gendered language
Of all the things to spark a debate over the lack of gender neutrality in language, I really hadn't expected Twitter.
Twitter seems to get a lot of flack. Upon telling people that I have a twitte...
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Carol Smith: Women are Better Managers
The New York Times has an interview with Carol Smith, the senior vice president and chief brand officer at the media company the Elle Group. And she makes some pretty admirable statements.
I think it...
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feminist chat with the rad Nikki Darling
Nikki Darling recently interviewed me for her blog, and we had a very cool chat.
Nikki Darling is a feminist music critic who writes for the LA Weekly and was the former interviews editor at LA Rec...
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MTSS goes CC
Remember when I posted that video from the fantabulous Midwest Teen Sex Show? Well, I just found out, thanks to WMC, that Comedy Central invited MTSS to make a full-length pilot episode this summer ...
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Maddow v. Buchanan over Sotomayor
I'm honestly not even sure I can articulate my feelings about this video. It makes me sick that this is how some people view affirmative action. It makes me sick to see how white supremacy is still al...
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July 17, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism
The Power of Punctuation
Just for funsies.
Thanks to Erin S. for sending it in!...
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July 17, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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My Story
In the past few weeks, the fbomb has exploded (haha pun sort of intended). People have been asking about me, about how I found feminism.
I do want to emphasize that of course the fbomb is not about ...
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July 16, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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The Case for Male Feminists
Great post by "eitheror" at dailykos.com, who makes the case for male feminists - quite eloquently at that. I'm so glad a man wrote this article for men: it's so important that this happens m...
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GirlPower: Voices of a Generation
I just got a heads up about this awesome group of young feminists and performers who put together a show called "GirlPower: Voices of a Generation." It looks amazing. Information is below:
The ...
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July 16, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Whip It!
I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE.
I love Ellen Page. If they made a movie that consisted entirely of her eating soup and talking to a cat, I'd see it. And I'd love it. I'm weird, moving on.
Drew Bar...
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the U.S. as an asylum for battered women
The Obama administration recently created a new policy that allows foreign women who are the victims of severe domestic violence to receive asylum in the United States.
The policy outlines that to re...
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is half-jewish a religion?
God, I love Jezebel. Last week, they addressed the hub of my own internal religious debates, by asking what being a "half jew" means.
As a technical "half jew" myself -- probably more complicated tha...
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Just saw Harry Potter and...
...it reminded me that Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy booo hissss) sings. He does indeed.
Thoughts?
And may I just say, Hermione is a totally empowered badass. And Luna Lovegood rocks. Although there wa...
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WWII Women Pilots Honored
The New York Times reports that the members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (W.A.S.P.) will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, one of America's highest civilian honors. Out of more than 1,000 ...