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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...
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October 14, 2010 | Sonia L |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Blazing Stink of an August Sidewalk
Blazing stink of an august sidewalk. My fingers my eyeballs are grey with the newsprint of this morning’s sins and a heavy shamed sickness knowing I am born with Certain Inalienable Rights: to have le...
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Being A Gay Teen at Homecoming
I was at homecoming this past weekend and, given my miraculously heightened sense of male gender roles, I made a few interesting observations that I would like to share with the wild internet west. Al...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Au Revoir Simone
Au Revoir Simone is an electronic dream pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, formed in late 2003. The group is composed of Erika Forster (vocals/keyboard), Annie Hart (vocals/keyboard) ...
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October 07, 2010 | Shenny |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Violence against women
Honor
The morning was grim.
Mom woke me earlier then usual, whispering something about a family outing. Her lips were trembling and her eyes were nervously flitting around the room, as if afraid that someo...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Caitlin Crosby
Caitlin Crosby is an artist who gives me hope for the pop music genre.
Rarely in pop music do you hear a young woman singing about body acceptance, but that's exactly what Caitlin Crosby sings about....
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September 30, 2010 | Ilinca N |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Tomorrow, Triangles
She learns shame when she’s a first grader. She learns hunger later on. And hate, she learns that in plenty. The way her thighs rub against each other, the soft roundness of her body. So she starts dr...
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Easy A and Teenage Sexuality
Whether we were actually at the party where it went down or heard about it at school the Monday after, we've all witnessed it. Two people hook up. As they walk into school, the rumor spreads with thei...
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Not My "Teenage Dream"
I'm sure that anyone reading this has heard Katy Perry's new hit, "Teenage Dream" on the radio or TV. I have to admit, it is a very catchy song, but like many pop songs out there today, it does not p...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Zee Avi
Zee Avi (born Izyan Alirahman) is a Malaysian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and ukulele player. She was born in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. She moved to Kuala Lumpur when she was 12. She studied fash...
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September 16, 2010 | Emily B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
How To Be Casual
Eat slowly, but finish everything. When he asks about school tell him it’s OK and then neglect to return the question. Stare at the cheap candle in between the two of you as he talks about himself, un...
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Women in Pre-Code Film
Pre-production code films were made from 1929-1934. They were interesting, because they explored subjects that would be relevant in today’s society. They had themes of violence, drug abuse, and sexu...
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Support Women Artist Sunday: Lights
"It's easy to misconstrue a young girl singer as a total puppet. I am the opposite of that. This is what I do. I am LIGHTS."
LIGHTS is a Canadian singer-songwriter who creates what she dubs "intergal...
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Saturday Vids: The Bechdel Test
Here on the FBomb we talk a lot about pop-culture, including women and movies. The Bechdel Test addresses this very topic and is something every good teenage feminist should be informed about. Once yo...
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Half The Sky
Over the summer, I read Half the Sky. The entire book was incredible, but I was moved by the chapter on the sex trafficking industry. I wrote this story as a way to try to imagine what that experience...
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Out of the Ash Cloud: An Al Jazeera Festival Premiere
An American filmmaker reflects on screening her documentary on Muslim women religious leaders at the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Qatar.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: New Young Pony Club
NYPC are a four piece rock band from London, England, containing members from London, Hereford, Cambridge and Bromley. Their influences are prominently from post-punk and New Wave. New Young Pony ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Cat Power
Cat Power is the stage name of American singer/songwriter Chan Marshall (born Charlyn Marie Marshall on January 21, 1972). She is known for her minimalist style, sparse guitar and piano playing, and b...
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August 26, 2010 | Sonia L |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Lilith
After what you said to him there was never again any truth spoken in the universe. For the first words out of their mouths when they heard you were lies.
Lilith, the burn of dirt and grass on your ba...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Katy B
Katy B-(Katie Brien) is an English singer-songwriter and a graduate of the BRIT School. She is a R&B, funky, house and garage singer and has also performed under the name Baby Katy. Having been of...
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August 19, 2010 | Katherine C |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
At 6 AM
at 6 a.m.
according to my shadow i had grown another head
another long arm that sifted long
fingers
through my own knapsack
but i didn't feel a thing
i guess i was an easy target
an early-morning wom...
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For Love and/or Money: When Business and Activism Join Hands
Social-entrepreneurial partnerships can be win-win situations, reports writer-photographer Laura Tillman, but nonprofits and celebrities have to choose their collaborators carefully.
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Lykke Li
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson Li was born in Ystad, Skåne in 1986; her mother is a photographer, her father is a musician.[2] The family moved to Stockholm when Li was a toddler and later moved to a mou...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Kid Sister
Melisa Young (born July 3, 1980) better known by her stage name Kid Sister, is a rap artist based in Chicago, Illinois.
Kid Sister started to rap in October 2005, becoming a MC at monthly dance parti...
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August 05, 2010 | Sarah T. |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Dear World
Dear World,
Today,
I will speak out.
Today,
I will report the man,
Who gropes me on the street.
Today,
I will tell my story,
To anyone who asks.
Today,
I will warn every woman and girl,
Of the man on ...
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