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Teen Girls Need Access To Their Reproductive Rights And Health, Too
The current feminist discourse surrounding women’s reproductive rights is crucial, especially considering that our access to these rights is dwindling and under constant attack. But it seems this conv...
WMC Speech Project
Women in Sports Media Face Unrelenting Sexism in Challenges to Their Expertise and Opinions
I was never truly aware of sexism until I started working in sports media. In the 13 years I spent as an attorney, I saw and felt a lot of injustice, but it was the kind I recognized: preference based...
WMC Live
WMC Live #165: Ursula K. Le Guin, Alicia Ostriker, Robin Coste Lewis. (Original Airdate 4/30/2016)
Robin on why the Founders rejected democracy, the 8 unknown US presidents before George Washington, and the Harriet Tubman $20 bill. Special Poetry Month Show! Guest poets Alicia Ostriker, Robin Coste Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin read from their work.
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Why The Gender Gap In STEM Fields Still Exists
Women make up roughly 50 percent of the U.S. workforce, yet comprise only about 25 percent of American STEM workers — numbers that have even stagnated in recent years. Although some might claim this u...
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The Truth About Having "Bad" Hair
I am a young Senegalese woman with “kinky” hair — specifically, type 4A/4B according to Andre Walker’s hair chart — and I have heard every comment in the book about it. Since preschool I have been to...
WMC Women Under Siege
Rape and sexualized violence in war: The vexing issue of causation and some reflections from Bosnia
Refugees. Srebrenica. The siege of Sarajevo. Burning villages such as Ahmići and Stupni Do. The Omarska camp. Captured in these words are some of the most powerful and lasting images of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. The media captured many of the crimes committed in this conflict, while one particular set of crimes typically occurred behind closed doors.
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It's Time To Start Exercising "Oppositional Resistance"
For a long time, the feminist movement failed to include the voices of marginalized groups. While criticism of this reality has seemed to particularly emerge in recent years, the feminist movement mus...
WMC News & Features
April 22, 2016 | Kathleen Downes |
Body image and body standards,
Disability,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
The power of holding hands
The author, a disability activist, shares an insight from the “sisterhood of disability”—that handholding between friends is not just for children.
WMC Live
WMC Live #164: Rebecca Traister, Celeste Mergens, Paul Greengard. (Original Airdate 4/23/2016)
Robin on "the vagina vote," women candidates, the Panama Papers, and how journalists report campus rape. Guests: Nobel winner neuroscientist Paul Greengard; Celeste Mergens on girls' menstrual kits; Rebecca Traister on the impact of single women.
WMC Speech Project
Political Violence is Directly Linked to Online Harassment
In May 2012, just before the anniversary of the ruling of the Constitutional Court that legalized abortion in Colombia in 2006, I was working as a communications officer in the offices of the NGO Wome...
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The Surprising Way Social Media Can Shape Young Girls' Bodies
The colossal expansion of technology has revolutionzed young women's lives in many ways. With the click of a button, girls can immediately become informed about what’s trending and playing, who’...
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The Truth About Helping A Mentally Ill Friend
Depression is a living breathing monster that stalks America’s youth. It devours confidence, ruins relationships, and even ends lives. I’ve met this beast and seen the damage it inflicts firsthand. I’...
WMC News & Features
April 18, 2016 | Mary Ann Swissler |
Health
Skyrocketing abortion clinic violence tied to extremist rhetoric
A new report from the National Abortion Federation reveals an alarming spike in violence and threats against abortion providers.
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What Young Women Especially Need To Know About Drinking
I'll admit it: I enjoy a drink or two every now and then. Wine is amazing (especially moscato) and I am old enough to legally partake in drinking it. That being said, there are some hard truths about ...
WMC Live
WMC Live #163: Maria De Leon, Susan Foster, Allison Willis. (Original Airdate 4/16/2016)
Robin on polls, Hillary, The Donald, and The Bern; plus special show on women and Parkinson's Disease, and gender-specific medicine. Guests: Maria De Leon, MD; Susan Foster, RN; and Allison Willis, MD. Also: Surrealism Corner, and We Won This!
WMC Women Under Siege
‘There's no news hook’: Q&A with Amanda Sperber on trying to cover rape in South Sudan
The scale of sexualized violence in South Sudan has been described by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as “shocking.” In a March report, the office counted more than 1,300 rapes in just five months in 2015 in a single area of the country, Unity State. And this number is only “a snapshot” of the real total, with women and girls being considered “a commodity” by soldiers.
WMC Speech Project
Understanding The Difference Between Generic Harassment and GenderTrolling
In the eighth century BCE, Telemachus, Penelope’s son, told his mother:
Mother, go back up into your quarters, and take up your own work, the loom and the distaff … speech will be the business...
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April 14, 2016 Feminism
Why "Housewife" Should Not Be A Dirty Word
As the daughter of a full-time mom, the word “housewife” elicits mixed feelings. On the one hand, as a Latina feminist, I am aware of how our patriarchal society governs women's roles and relegates th...
WMC News & Features
April 13, 2016 | Jennifer Epps-Addison |
Economy
We deserve more: The critical role of women in the fight for $15
As the Fight for $15 movement for fair wages and workers' rights prepares for a major strike and protest on April 14, the author, a leading advocate, spotlights women's leadership—and the stakes for women workers.
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North Carolina and Mississippi Passed Discriminatory Bills, But I Refuse To Remain Silent
North Carolina and Mississippi recently made headlines for signing two anti-LGBT+ bills into law. News outlets, prominent organizations and officials around the nation roundly decried these measures a...
WMC News & Features
April 11, 2016 | Sarita Gupta |
Economy
Equal Pay Day: Don't celebrate, organize!
On the day that draws attention to the gender wage gap, the author, a leading expert on workers' rights, calls for a "movement for women's economic freedom."
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What Kim Kardashian's Nude Selfie Reveals About The Way We View Female Sexuality
In March, Kim Kardashian West posted a nude selfie on Instagram. As has come to be expected whenever a woman (especially a high-profile woman) does something with her body, people had a lot to say abo...
WMC Speech Project
Why Naming Online Harassment Accurately Matters
The issue of online abuse is finally being taken seriously. In the past year, the subject has been discussed before the U.S. Congress, at the U.N., on the nightly news, and with surprising empathy and...
WMC News & Features
April 07, 2016 | Mahwish Qayyum |
Disability,
International,
Violence against women,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
The long road to justice for Pakistan's acid attack survivors
Five years after Pakistan passed a law to punish acid attacks, the violence continues even as more survivors seek justice.
WMC FBomb
The Binary
With our first breaths we are packaged and
itemized. We are placed on a conveyer belt and
processed through our adjacent existences
of Pink and Blue.
And I wonder what my colour is,
as a person w...
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