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July 17, 2012 | Gina S | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media, Misogyny
The Headline Project
As a little project, I recently decided to compile the gender presentation as depicted in the headlines on various popular ‘news’ websites over 3 days. Having rolled my eyes so strenuously as to pop s...
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July 15, 2012 | Carina | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Girls, Media, Misogyny, Violence against women
How the Media Sells Pimp Culture
Every morning when I take the train, I put my iPod on shuffle and let various thoughts run through my head. But as I think about how tired I am or about the math test I have during first period, I don...
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July 13, 2012 | Melissa King | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media
Saturday Vids: My Body...Finally
I love to see women who are comfortable and confident in their skin despite being a different size or shape than what our society markets as the ideal. I love seeing a woman who doesn’t lose her confi...
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July 12, 2012 | Emily Jane G | Feminism, Girls
Silencing the Fear: Coming Out As A Feminist
In a day and age in which many people believe feminism is no longer needed or just outright misunderstand what feminism actually is, coming out and saying the words "I am a feminist" can be quite da...
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July 12, 2012 | Caryl Rivers | Education, Feminism, Girls, Media, Religion
Nuns and Virgins
With the republication of her novel set in the 1950s, Caryl Rivers considers the nuns who taught her and those who are still today the heart of the Catholic Church.
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July 10, 2012 | Reem B | Feminism, International, Politics
Women's Suffrage in Egypt: I Thought We Established That
I live in Egypt and, contrary to what many Western people seem to believe, we live in apartments, do not use camels or horses for transportation, spend most of our time in front of T.Vs, computers, sm...
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July 08, 2012 | Bryan N | Education, Feminism, Girls, Violence against women
The Role Of Men In The Fight Against Sexism
There has been something I have been wanting to get off my chest for a while. As a man active in the fight against sexism in every form, I find myself looking back to my days in high school, middle sc...
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July 06, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Girls, Media, Science and tech
Saturday Vids: Shree Bose, Teenage Cancer Researcher
Shree Bose has inspired me since I learned that she was the Grand Prize winner of the Google Global Science Fair. As her TEDxwomen's speaker's page describes: "[Shree's] award-winning project involved...
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July 05, 2012 | Atiya I-M | Economy, Feminism, Media, Politics
But I Want To Have It All
It's my nature to think in the long term. Even though I am fully aware that at the age of 18 even though I can drive, rock the vote, and go to war I still have a lot of time before I have to think ser...
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July 03, 2012 | Tessa M | Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Violence against women
Straw Feminism
I recently came across the concept of "Straw Feminism." Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency defines the Straw feminist as “a trope that is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a femini...
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June 29, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Economy, Feminism, Media
Saturday Vids: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on Women Entrepreneurs
"Gayle Tzemach Lemmon never set out to write about women entrepreneurs. She was simply looking for a great—and underreported—economics story after leaving ABC News for MBA study at Harvard to pursue h...
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June 29, 2012 | M. G. Lord | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media
Nora Ephron—An Appreciation
Author M. G. Lord knew Nora Ephron socially, but appreciated her most through Ephron's essays. She writes about why they've had only the best influence on her own writing.
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June 28, 2012 | Amanda P | Feminism, Violence against women
On Street Harassment
I vividly remember the first time I ever experienced street harassment. I was on my way to class and saw in the distance a group of young men drinking and carrying on in a very loud and obnoxious mann...
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June 26, 2012 | Camille B | Feminism, Girls, Media, Misogyny
The Feminist Dilemma of Rap
Lately, I have been struggling with music -- specifically, rap. I am an African-American girl and rap is very popular not just in my culture but in my own family. I recently realized that the struggle...
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June 26, 2012 | Ellen Bravo | Economy, Feminism, Media, Politics
"Having it All?"—The Wrong Question for Most Women
As it has done at least once a decade for the past 40 years, the media seems intent on pitting women against each other in a "Having it All" debate about work inside and outside the home. Author and organizer Ellen Bravo explains why the discussion defies reality.
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June 24, 2012 | Grace | Body image and body standards, Education, Feminism, Girls, Media
Perfectly Normal
I don’t have a diagnosed eating disorder and that makes me sad. That might sound like a strange thing to say, but what I mean is that I think it's wrong that my daily obsession with counting calories,...
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June 22, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Media, Politics
Saturday Vids: Mallika Dutt -- The "War On Women" Is Bigger Than You Think
"As the Supreme Court considers key elements of Arizona’s SB 1070 law, which legalizes racial profiling of and blatant discrimination against immigrant communities and people of color, stories from ar...
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June 21, 2012 | Carson R | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media, Violence against women
Everything Was Okay
*Trigger warning: the following story may be upsetting to survivors of / those sensitive to descriptions of sexual assault* Eve is a palindrome. Reverse the order of letters, and the word remains the...
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June 19, 2012 | Rabha Ashry | Feminism, International, Misogyny, Religion
Arrested For Having A Boyfriend
I almost got arrested today. I don’t want to write about it. I don’t want to think about it but I feel like I have to put it down somewhere. I almost got arrested today. This is what happened. I was...
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June 17, 2012 | Molly W | Feminism, Girls, Media, Misogyny, Science and tech
Geek Culture and Male Privilege
Spend any time on website like 9Gag or Memebase (and you know you do), and you’ll quickly realize that most of these websites are populated by guys. Men are both the readers and the ones creating and ...
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June 15, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Feminism, Media, Violence against women
Saturday Vids: The Invisible War
"From Oscar®- and Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated; Twist of Faith) comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most sham...
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June 15, 2012 | Shelby Knox | Feminism, Girls, Media
Ms. Is Celebrated in the City of its Birth
Four decades after its birth as the nation's first feminist mass-market magazine, Ms. was honored this week by the New York City Council. Shelby Knox writes of its continuing advocacy.
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June 14, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism
On Having A Feminist Father
I've often heard that having a daughter can be one of the most formative experiences in a man's life. Generally, I've been told, it's an experience that allows men to understand women's issues on a co...
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June 12, 2012 | Sophia I | Education, Feminism
When Your Friends Don't Get Feminism
I recently experienced something deeply upsetting that as fellow feminists I am sure you all can relate to. It was like any other summer evening, a group of my friends (3 guys, 4 girls) were sitting i...
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June 10, 2012 | Talia | Feminism, Politics
The Importance of Voting
I am now officially a member of the National Organization for Women (NOW)! NOW is the largest feminist organization in the country, and has been a huge presence in women’s rights advocacy ever since i...
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