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May 16, 2022 | Hayley Owen | Feminism
We Need More Women in Government to Combat Anti-Choice Legislation

If our abortion rights are taken away, who knows what other rights will be taken next?

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May 13, 2022 | Louise Bernikow | Arts and culture, Feminism
New Musical Brings a Different Spin to Suffrage Story

Suffs, at the Public Theater in New York, does not shy away from the darker aspects of the suffrage movement, including conflicts among women.

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May 12, 2022 | Dharmi Desai | Feminism
How Are We Still Legislating Women’s Bodies?

According to a leaked initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that protects a pregnant person's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

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May 10, 2022 | Karly Michon | Feminism
Sex Sells, So Why Doesn’t Sex Education?

Treating sex as taboo isn’t helping anyone.

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May 04, 2022 | Ninotchka Rosca | Feminism, International, Misogyny, Online harassment, Politics
Phenomenally Pink: Robredo’s Campaign for the Presidency Bucks Gender Terrorism in the Philippines

The competition for the presidency, between the only son of a “strongman” and a widow, resonates with the enduring friction between a woman-centered native culture and the infrastructure of patriarchal political dynasties bred by colonialism in the Philippines.

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April 20, 2022 | Ashley Bae | Feminism
It’s Time to Make Surveys More Inclusive

Intersectionality is more than an equity-promoting framework — it’s an accuracy-promoting framework, and scholars from all fields must gain greater understandings of methodology that embraces intersectionality.

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March 16, 2022 | Ann Deslandes | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
‘They Know We Are Not Scared’: The Unshakeable Resolve of Mexico’s 8M March

International Women’s Day marches mark how feminist movements have exploded across Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America — a region with some of the highest rates of sexualized violence in the world.

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March 16, 2022 | Riya Goel | Feminism
Why Building A Network Is Imperative for Gen-Z Women

Most networking now occurs online, which presents an incredible opportunity for Gen-Zers — and Gen-Z women in particular.

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November 24, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Feminism
The Need for Gender-Neutral Language

"Both actual linguistic changes and conversations about linguistic changes are part of the process through which norms and attitudes change.”

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November 23, 2021 | Aarti Narsee | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Activists Fuel Global Movement to Fight Violence Against Women

Thursday marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which kicks off the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence in a year in which women have taken to the streets to protest rising violence and lack of state protection.

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October 27, 2021 | Isabella Poppe | Feminism
Fighting for a Brazilian Period Poverty Law

The only positive aspect of these events is that an issue that had previously been little debated now has national visibility and is being taken seriously by many politicians.

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October 20, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
This Book Examines Coming of Age as an Intersex Teen

Papillon’s debut novel, An Ordinary Wonder tells the story of a pair of twins named Otolorin and Wuraola as they come of age. But Oto has a deeply held secret — she was born intersex and has always been told she must never tell anyone the truth about her identity.

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October 13, 2021 | Nicole Catarino | Feminism
What’s the Price of “Pretty”?

At 9 years old, I should not have been concerned with whittling down the space I took up just so I could blend in with the beige expectations of my classmates. But external and internal pressures had succeeded in convincing me otherwise.

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October 08, 2021 | Farzana Nisar | Feminism
Infertility Is on the Rise in Kashmir

Not only can the inability to bear children have a profound impact on Indian women’s identities — childless women’s very femininity is questioned — but it can also threaten their relationships, particularly their marriages.

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September 30, 2021 | Nikita Jain | Feminism, Free Speech, International, Online harassment, Violence against women
Months After Indian Muslim Women Were Featured ‘Deals of the Day,’ Nothing Has Happened

More than 80 women had their names and pictures posted without their consent on the app’s “deals of the day.” Rather than hosting actual transactions, the sole purpose of the app was to humiliate its subjects.

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September 30, 2021 | Emily Barrett | Feminism
Can Clothes Actually Be “Distractions” in Schools?

If being told to cover up their bodies makes girls feel bad, why do we tell them that?

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September 21, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Feminism
North Carolina Takes A Small Step in Limiting Child Marriage

North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 35, which increases the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 years old (under certain circumstances), into law on August 26.

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September 14, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
A Teen Girl Starts a Feminist Movement in Michelle Quach’s “Not Here To Be Liked”

“There’s been a lot of discussion about unlikeable female characters in general and I personally wanted to give [creating one] a shot because I think unlikable characters are more realistic.”

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August 27, 2021 | Eirliani Abdul Rahman | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
How to Limit the Disaster for Afghanistan's Girls and Women

Given entrenched cultural norms, the U.S. and the international community should demand that the new Taliban regime uphold the basic rights of Afghan women as defined by the Afghan constitution.

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August 25, 2021 | Cecile Richards (1957 - 2025), Nicolette Naylor | Feminism, International
A Next-Generation Feminist Agenda

The UN Generation Equality Forum builds on the promise of the Beijing Conference of 26 years ago.

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August 18, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
Writer Nneka M. Okona on the Importance of Self-Care While Grieving

When Nneka M. Okona began working on the manuscript that would become her new book, Self-Care for Grief, she knew she wished to create a guide for readers to center their needs wherever they were in the grieving process.

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August 12, 2021 | Johanne Nichols | Feminism
Even Women Without Children Should Care About Child Care Access

Child care has been an issue in this country for years.

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July 29, 2021 | Lucile Cerulean | Feminism
Women Paying the Price For Men Being Dummies, Yet Again

Learning how to drive is already a daunting task, but it can become even more so when you learn about how cars’ safety is determined

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July 27, 2021 | Grace Ouyang | Feminism
Why Inequality Is Exacerbated in the Summer

Inequality is especially worth thinking about in the summer, since it’s exacerbated in many ways during this season.

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June 30, 2021 | Julianne McShane | Feminism, Media
New Exhibition Reveals the Feminist Journey of “Washington Post” Publisher Katharine Graham

The New-York Historical Society exhibition traces the life of the “staunch, If discreet, feminist.”

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