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June 30, 2021 | Riel Lewis | Feminism
My First Time Being Catcalled

The first time I was catcalled was not in circumstances I had been taught to fear.

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June 21, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Feminism
The Power of a Ponytail

For a long time, it didn’t occur to Sharma that she could make a change to the grooming standards because the Army’s rules about the way soldiers can and can’t wear their hair historically have been determined by “white men in the military [who] hate change,” Sharma said.

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June 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
This Is the First Book About Abortion Care for Children

When Carly Manes first began working in reproductive health and started having conversations with clients about their needs, she immediately noticed something: many of them wished there were more resources for parents who wanted to explain what abortions were to their children.

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May 24, 2021 | Rosie Foulds | Feminism
The United Nations Has a Women’s Leadership Problem

According to the UN Secretariat Gender Parity Dashboard, while women compose nearly 57% of entry-level P-2 positions, they comprise only 38% of D-2 positions, the highest level of employment in the U.N.

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May 10, 2021 | Lucile Cerulean | Feminism
The Gender Pay Gap, Teensplained

It has been 58 years since the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which made it illegal to pay men and women different salaries for the same work based on their sex, was signed into law. Yet men and women are still not paid the same money for the same work.

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May 07, 2021 | Sehar Chowdhry | Feminism
Meet The 17-Year-Old Activist Empowering Indian Teens

Seventeen-year-old Gurnoor Suri began her activist journey at the young age of 7 when she began donating her belongings to an orphanage she stumbled upon on her way back home from school.

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April 28, 2021 | Pippa Biddle | Feminism
An Excerpt from 'Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism'

Ours to Explore offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.

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April 16, 2021 | Isabelle Baird | Arts and culture, Feminism
Taylor Swift’s Fight for Property Rights

According to Swift, she had previously “asked, pleaded for a chance to own my own work,” but was denied the opportunity to buy back her masters and thereby own her songs.

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April 06, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
A Nonbinary Teen Stands Up For Their Rights in ‘Can’t Take That Away’

The book tells the story of Carey Parker, a nonbinary teen who loves pop culture, musicals, and singing.

WMC FBomb
April 05, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Disability, Feminism, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Author Lizzy Mason Explores Coming of Age and Mental Illness in "Between the Bliss and Me"

The FBomb talked to Mason about her sophomore novel, family secrets, and why it is important to have honest conversations about topics many people want to avoid.

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March 30, 2021 | Anmol Irfan | Feminism
A Year of Being Grounded Taught Me Why Traveling Is So Important

I’ve realized that I love traveling because the moments I’ve felt closest to being my full self have come when I’m as far as possible from the places I know well.

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March 26, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Body image and body standards, Feminism
This Book Explores The Contradictions In Feminist Media

Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes is an exploration of how Korn survived an imperfect industry stilted by itself.

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March 22, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Feminism, International
Latin American Women Experienced Backlash on International Women’s Day

On March 9, images from Mexico City showed how IWD protests turned violent between women and police officers

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March 19, 2021 | Elena Gagovska | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Misogyny, Online harassment, Violence against women
Macedonian Feminists Demand Justice for 'Public Room' Victims of Online Sexual Harassment

When a Telegram group called “Public Room” was discovered sharing private images and contact information of countless women and girls from across North Macedonia without their consent, the outrage was swift, but authorities' lackluster response to online crimes against women signals a critical need for more protections — and better enforcement.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 16, 2021 | Ann Deslandes | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Misogyny, Violence against women
International Women’s Day Protesters in Mexico Take Over Central Plaza to Honor Victims of Femicide

The Mexico City government erected barricades around the National Palace of Government as a "wall of peace" intended to protect the historic building ahead of the 8M International Women’s Day protest on March 8, 2021. It did not go well.

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February 25, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Feminism
Author Koa Beck discusses her new book White Feminism

Beck’s book reflects white feminism for what it really is: a strategy for gender equality that’s shaped by colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy.

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February 22, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Feminism
The Movement to Make the Spanish and Portuguese Languages More Inclusive

The feminist and the LGTBQIA+ movements in Latin America have started to criticize how Spanish and Portuguese express so much systemic prejudice and misogyny and are proposing changes to make them more inclusive.

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February 15, 2021 | Kristi Eaton | Feminism
This Project Aims to Involve More Young Women in Mapping
Everywhere She Maps is an effort launched in November 2020 that aims to address the underrepresentation of women in the geospatial field.
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February 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
Stanford Student Christina Li Makes Her Literary Debut with “Clues to the Universe”

Christina Li first got the idea for what would become her debut novel shortly after she graduated from high school.

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January 25, 2021 | Hailey Cheng | Feminism
How The Fetishization of Asian Women Leads to Violence

The ongoing sexual violence toward Asian women is undeniably linked to widespread, hypersexualized stereotypes that have stripped Asian women of their personhood and individuality.

WMC Climate
January 14, 2021 | Jane Fonda. | Environment, Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
It’s Not Just a Climate Crisis. It’s a Crisis of Empathy and Justice.

I believe there are three global crises that are related to the catastrophes of climate and the coronavirus: racial injustice, economic inequality, and a crisis of democracy.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 12, 2021 | Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Feminism, Free Speech, Gender-based violence, International, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
Black and Trans Women Fight for Safety and Visibility in Brazil’s Far-Right Government

The growth in political representation of Black and trans women in Brazil's city governments has not gone unnoticed by right-wing parties, making them visible targets for racist and death threats and abuse.

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January 12, 2021 | Adelaide Smith | Feminism
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Performative Promise of Gender Equality

Salman’s hypocrisy has been apparent all along.

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January 06, 2021 | Catherine K. | Feminism
Argentina Just Legalized Abortion, But Other Latin American Countries Are Making Progress Too

On December 30, Argentina’s Senate approved legislation that not only legalized abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy, but also made the procedure free of charge.

WMC Women Under Siege
November 05, 2020 | Dario Sabaghi | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Media, Misogyny, Online harassment
Kidnapped Abroad, Threatened at Home: An Interview with Sociologist Anna Simone on Aisha Silvia Romano’s Homecoming

An interview with Anna Simone, a sociologist and a professor at the University of Roma Tre, about how women and men are scrutinized differently by the Italian media and public.

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