WMC FBomb
The Girl Effect
The Girl Effect
Change
Share...
WMC FBomb
Life Without a Life Mate
I’m on a number of social networking sites, and on some of these, there are introduction threads. On one of these, they asked us state our long term goals and I wrote what I considered to be the basic...
WMC FBomb
Grinding
I had been at college for three days, and my friends and I were anticipating the First Chance Dance, an annual tradition meant to facilitate fun and friendship during the notoriously uncomfortable ori...
WMC FBomb
GR!C: Day 6...Final Performance at The Metro!
Seeing your show on the marquee of a venue that’s hosted bands like The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The White Stripes is pretty thrilling. And seeing people line up ...
WMC FBomb
GR!C: Day 5
Xenia and I are a few minutes late today, and when we get to the cafeteria, everyone has paper taped to their backs and are running around with markers. We soon learn that you’re supposed to write on...
WMC FBomb
GR!C: Day 4
Our song is nearly finished! Yay! We pretty much had the music down since day one, except for the last minute bass solo/bridge I added yesterday. The lyrics, on the other hand, were only finalized ...
WMC FBomb
September 09, 2009 | Shelan O |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
Media,
Violence against women
GR!C: Day 3
Our band finally has a name and a logo, which will be screened onto shirts, so each band has merch. Sweet! It had been down to Electric Field Trip or On The Fritz, but fate...took another course...(d...
WMC FBomb
GR!C: Day 2
I’ve been moved to a new bass class, which is awesome because now I have Allison as my teacher! Allison was my drum teacher last year, and has been with the camp since the beginning, so we’re old p...
WMC FBomb
GR!C: Day 1
I woke up at 5:40 am, raring to go. My sister, Xenia, who has been pretty low-key in expressing her enthusiasm, literally danced into the bathroom singing “Good morning, good morning, good morning to...
WMC FBomb
Are You Ready to Rock?? GR!C 2009
Julie: Hey FBombers. This week, I'm handing the fbomb over to the super rad Shélan O. She participated in this year's Girls Rock! Chicago - a week-long summer camp program for girls ages 9-16 that mot...
WMC FBomb
September 03, 2009 | Nellie B |
Feminism
Dealing with Terms of "Endearment"
As I began my senior year of high school yesterday, I was reminded of how frustrating it is to be young and female at the mercy of patronizing teachers.
Now, many of my teachers are fine people who ...
WMC FBomb
"Sexism, Strength and Dominance: Masculinity in Disney Films"
Here are a few videos I found about sexism and racism in Disney films.
I do want to acknowledge that YESSSS a lot of these movies were made a "long time ago." Y'know like a couple of decades. But...
WMC FBomb
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...
WMC FBomb
Go Topless Day?
Did you know that August 23rd is Go Topless Day?
While browsing the internet today, I came upon an interesting website: gotopless.org
They are a US organization claiming that women have the s...
WMC FBomb
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...
WMC FBomb
August 23, 2009 | Becka W |
Feminism,
International
The Right to Choose vs. The Right to Survival
I was recently in China from 7/17 – 8/2 on a family vacation (we take some pretty unique vacations, haha). We went on this fabulous tour from Shanghai to Wuhan to a 5-day Cruise down the Yangtze River...
WMC FBomb
Glamour Magazine's September Issue Gets it Right
I do not read Glamour magazine. My sister's friend, however, does. So when flipping through the September issue with them, I was happy to see this:
A non-airbrushed photo of model Lizzie Miller.
M...
WMC FBomb
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...
WMC FBomb
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...
WMC FBomb
it's funny cuz it's true...?
Apparently, there’s a whole range of animated sketches about Jordanians (and Arabs in general) up on Youtube. Now, I’m not saying they’re not humorous at all—a lot of people think they’re absolutely h...
WMC FBomb
More Women Employed, Fewer Leaders in Italy
A translated part from an article appeared on the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” of 14/08/09.
Job & Career – Public employment: more women, few leaders
“In Italy The percentage of wome...
WMC FBomb
Back On Track
"And you know what they say--it's in your DNA!"
-Avenue Q, "If You Were Gay"
I stumbled upon this rather classic questionnaire here:
I decided to fill it out both to
A) Have some fun looking at hete...
WMC FBomb
Trying To Be Pretty
this is a quiet acknowledgement
of running a hand over skin to see if it is soft
and over a body to see if it is full
and of measuring the size but more importantly the consistency of breasts
and ...
WMC FBomb
August 11, 2009 | Julia P |
Feminism
Dishwashing Feminism
You know, I kinda wanted my debut at the FBomb to be intellectual and interesting and all that, but somehow my first article has turned out to be one of those feel-of-the-moment snippets.
Anyway,...
WMC FBomb
August 10, 2009 | Helen H |
Feminism,
International
'Til Death?
Marriage over here (in Jordan)—it’s been bothering me ever since I first started to understand it. This doesn’t happen with everyone, but it’s the way most religious or conservative families go about ...
Categories
- All Categories
- Arts and culture
- Body image and body standards
- Disability
- Economy
- Education
- Environment
- Feminism
- Free Speech
- Gender-based violence
- Girls
- Gloria Steinem
- Health
- Immigration
- International
- Jane Fonda
- LGBTQIA
- Media
- Misogyny
- Online harassment
- Politics
- Race/Ethnicity
- Religion
- Robin Morgan
- Science and tech
- Sports
- Violence against women
- WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program