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August 04, 2021 | Elizabeth Jones | Sports
The Tour de France Is Moving Against Its Sexist Traditions

The Tour de France is the most highly anticipated, popular cycling event worldwide.

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August 03, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Sports
Osaka, Biles, and Choosing to Withdraw

On July 28, the greatest gymnast in history, Simone Biles, withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics

WMC News & Features
August 02, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Media
New Netflix Film Explores Complexity of Harmful Conversion Therapy Movement

The new documentary, Pray Away, offers surprising and nuanced insights.

WMC Women Under Siege
July 31, 2021 | Nikita Jain, Kasturi Chakraborty | Free Speech, Gender-based violence, Politics, Violence against women
Women Activists in India Still Face Detention and Police Intimidation After Anti-CAA Protests

Women who participated in anti-CAA protests nearly two years ago continue to be targeted by law enforcement, bearing the full brunt of the security apparatus or facing aggressive intimidation.

WMC Climate
July 29, 2021 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
As the Saying Goes, ‘It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity.’ And It’s Killing Us Faster Than You Think.

As someone who just decamped from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, you could probably call me a climate refugee.

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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

WMC IDAR/E
July 28, 2021 | Cristina del Mar Quiles | Gender-based violence, Misogyny
How We Report on Machista Violence Matters

Amid a state of emergency around femicide in Puerto Rico, journalists and activists are challenging the normalization of sexist news coverage

WMC News & Features
July 28, 2021 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Environment, International, Politics
Ecofeminists Lead the Way

Activists whose work incorporates ecological, health, and equality campaigns have moved from protesting outside the halls of power to become elected legislators writing and passing the environmental protection frameworks that they campaigned for.

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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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July 26, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Religion, Violence against women
The #MeToo Movement’s Blind Spot: Scientology

The movement had, and still has, a gaping blindspot: the influence of Scientology.

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July 21, 2021 | Nichola Gutgold | Politics
Harris’ Weighty Assignments Could Prove Helpful in Presidential Bid

Even though she has taken on seemingly impossible tasks, for the first woman U.S. vice president, action beats inaction.

WMC Climate
July 21, 2021 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
Wildfires Don’t Discriminate — Except When They do

New York City is in the middle of an air-quality alert because of the massive wildfires out West and in Canada. Of course, what we’re experiencing here is nothing next to what those in the direct areas of the fires are feeling. But it’s not insignificant if you’re elderly, pregnant, have existing health issues, or are a child.

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July 21, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This Book Tells the Story of the Surfer Girls of Bangladesh

Samira Surfs draws on real-life stories to create the story of Samira, a 12-year-old girl who embraces surfing as a way to find herself and process her trauma.

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July 20, 2021 | Monica Muñoz Martinez | Education, Race/Ethnicity
The Push for Lesson-Burning in Texas Classrooms Comes as No Shock to Those in the Long Fight for Mexican American Studies

Republicans have truth-telling teachers in their crosshairs as part of a renewed campaign to whitewash U.S. history

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July 16, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Media
‘Never Have I Ever’ Star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on Friendship, Fame and the Power of Social Media

The FBomb recently had the chance to chat with Ramakrishnan about Never Have I Ever’s second season (which is currently streaming on Netflix) and more.

WMC Climate
July 15, 2021 | Kavitha Yarlagadda | Environment
The Women’s Crop: Indian Women Look to Millet as the Climate Warms

After Kandakam Mogulamma’s husband, a farmer, passed away in 2019, she quickly learned how to grow crops.

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July 15, 2021 | Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley | Education, Girls, Race/Ethnicity
T-R-A-I-L-B-L-A-Z-E-R: The History Behind Zaila Avant-garde’s Spelling Bee Win

14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the competition’s 96-year history.

WMC News & Features
July 14, 2021 | Shaistha Khan | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
“I Will Not Be Silenced”: Women in Kuwait Fight Back Against Violence

Demands to address gender-based violence have escalated after a social media movement and a brutal murder.

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July 13, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Sports
The Treatment of Black Female Olympic Athletes

All of these cases elicit a similar feeling of Black women being treated cruelly and unfairly based on arbitrary rules.

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July 07, 2021 | McKenna Oberheim | Girls
Let’s Validate Girls’ Interests

It wasn’t until recently that I realized I have never seen the interests of young boys, such as video games or sports, treated in the same way that girls’ interests in makeup, music, or even women’s sports often are.

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July 06, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Media
Teens Should Be Careful about TikTok Challenges

Some of the challenges can actually hurt their participants because they lead people to do risky things like taking medicine, playing with electricity, or gluing body parts together using super glues.

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July 02, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Girls
How COVID-19 Affected Teens’ Mental Health

Pandemic lockdowns led to worsening levels of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents.

WMC Climate
July 01, 2021 | Fadumo Abdulqadir | Environment
Somali Women Are Trying to Stay Above Water

Dahabo Mahdi, 32, is ploughing a small cornfield she shares with her in-laws in Jiro, a village in central Somalia. She only moved there recently. She was forced to.

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July 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This Author Channeled Her Grief Into a Children’s Book About Managing Sadness

The title character in Jenny Mei Is Sad is a little girl who is often sad but still makes jokes and smiles. Her best friend always lets her know that she is there to listen and play games, even when Jenny Mei isn’t at her best.

WMC News & Features
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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