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WMC FBomb
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.

WMC FBomb
April 27, 2021 | Silvia Lopez |
Too Hot to Handle: The Dangers of the ‘Spicy Latina’ Stereotype

When young people — especially young women in the process of developing their identities — see women whose nationality or ethnicity they identify with being constantly sexualized, it’s harmful.

WMC Live
April 25, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #346: The Supreme Court, Part 2. (Original Airdate 4/25/2021)

Robin on The Verdict in the Chauvin trial, and its deeper meaning. Also, an exploration of the Supreme Court and why/how it can, after all, be expanded.

WMC Climate
April 23, 2021 | Sara Hylton | Environment, Violence against women
Biden’s Move Toward Clean Energy Will Not Necessarily Stop the Murders of Native Women

While precise figures are not known and are vastly underreported, a 2018 study from the Urban Indian Health Institute found that Native American women are 10 times more likely to be murdered than other American women.

WMC FBomb
April 22, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Race/Ethnicity
Why Do Some Lawmakers Oppose This Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill?

On May 5, Democratic Representative Grace Meng of New York and Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii introduced the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in response to the extreme increase in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last year.

WMC News & Features
April 21, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture, Race/Ethnicity
Creating Opportunities for Composers of Color in Hollywood

Composers of color are still rare in Hollywood. Here’s how some in the industry are working to change that.

WMC FBomb
April 20, 2021 | Alyssa Webb | Health
We Still Need Affordable, Accessible Oral Contraceptives in the United States

There are a number of reasons menstruating people (not just those who identify as women) take birth control pills.

WMC Women Under Siege
April 19, 2021 | Lillian Perlmutter | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
The Bahamas Faces a Crisis of Underaged Victims of Sexual Assault and Predatory Behavior

Royal Bahamas Police Force report that during the pandemic, more teenage girls have gone missing than in years past, and activists say it is part of a larger pattern of abuse.

WMC FBomb
April 19, 2021 | Anonymous | Health
What One Year of COVID as an International Student in the U.S. Has Been Like

I speak with my parents weekly; at first, I was incessantly worried about their safety in China, and now they are more worried about me, in the Midwestern U.S.

WMC Live
April 18, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #345: Poetry! (Original Airdate 4/18/2021)
For Poetry Month this spring, Robin reads work by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Parker, Audre Lorde, Victoria Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Lucille Clifton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Suzi F. Garcia, Stevie Smith, Charlotte Mew, and others.
WMC FBomb
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.

WMC News & Features
April 15, 2021 | Kylie Cheung | Violence against women
Why Survivor Justice Advocates Warn Against Increased Policing

When police presence increases in response to incidents of violence, who will protect women from police?

WMC Climate
April 15, 2021 | Adejoke Adeboyejo |
Climate Change Puts the Lives of Nigerian Farmers at Risk

When the rains came in January 2020, and again in February (albeit in less of a deluge), Foluke Afolabi was concerned about her farm in Ikorodu, in Nigeria’s southwestern Lagos State.

WMC FBomb
April 12, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Sports
Fighting for Equality in the NCAA

The obvious, enduring inequities between men’s and women’s college basketball were spotlighted last month when a 37-second video filmed by Oregon forward Sedona Prince went viral.

WMC Live
April 11, 2021 | Annie Laurie Gaylor, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #344: Religious Establishments. (Original Airdate 4/11/2021)

Robin returns to religion's role in our secular Republic, and the ongoing struggle to keep it separate. Guest: Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the largest organization of atheists, agnostics, and free thinkers in the USA.

WMC FBomb
April 09, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Race/Ethnicity
On Using Influencers for Political Means

One Minneapolis city council member, Andrea Jenkins, told USA Today that the city’s plan was not to spread propaganda, but to establish a more direct line of communication between the government and city residents.

WMC News & Features
April 09, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | Immigration
Will Biden Create More Humane Immigration Policies?

Activists are pushing the Biden administration to do more than “undo the damage” caused by Trump.

WMC FBomb
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.

WMC Women Under Siege
April 02, 2021 | Gaelle Legrand | Gender-based violence, International, Misogyny, Violence against women
‘Enough is enough’: The Murder of Sarah Everard and Confronting Male Violence Against Women in the UK

Everard’s case shook the nation as an outraged public demanded more safety for women against pervasive male violence. And while a serving Metropolitan police officer remains in custody for her kidnapping and murder, the question of law enforcement's role in ensuring that safety provokes national conversation.

WMC Climate
April 01, 2021 | Jeanne Bryer | Environment
How a Young Woman Becomes an Environmental Activist in a War-Torn Country

When Zohra Sansa, 21, returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, after nine years in Iran as a refugee, she witnessed some of climate change’s catastrophic effects in crowded internally displaced persons camps filled with homeless, rural families.

WMC News & Features
April 01, 2021 | Kendall Hunter | Economy, International
Women Artisans Finding Ways to Thrive

At a time when millions have experienced disruptions in their ways of working, traditional artisans — the original remote workers — offer lessons on the future of work.

WMC FBomb
March 31, 2021 | Lola Miller | Violence against women
If The Walk Home Is A Battlefield, Our Relationships Are Minefields

There is a danger even in the framing that rape and assault and kidnap and battery are things that happen to women rather than acts of violence that men commit.

WMC FBomb
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.

WMC FBomb
March 29, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Arts and culture
This Poet Compiled The Collection She Needed as a Teen Girl

The anthology, which is being released on March 30 by Workman Publishing, is divided into chapters that center on themes that include “Seeking,” “Attitude,” “Longing” and “Shame.”

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