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WMC FBomb
April 19, 2019 | Patricia Mupakaviri | Economy, Education, International
Zimbabwean students are being sexually exploited to pay their tuition

Zimbabwean students, both male and female, are struggling to pay for higher education. In response, a number of female Zimbabwean university students have begun to engage in transactional sex to pay their tuition and otherwise survive.

WMC News & Features
April 18, 2019 | Aviva Stahl | International, Politics
South Korea legalizes abortion after decades-long ban

South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.

WMC Women Under Siege
April 17, 2019 | Rachel Somerstein | International, Media
How women photographers can expand our view of conflict

Only a paltry number of women conflict photographers are in the field compared to men, which means that men are largely shaping our understanding of war.

WMC News & Features
April 17, 2019 | Katti Gray |
Why are women’s incarceration rates rising?

A team of scholars is investigating why women's incarceration is increasing even as overall imprisonment rates have been declining.

WMC FBomb
April 17, 2019 | Kalli Jackson | Education, Race/Ethnicity
Why were only seven black students admitted to this elite NYC public school?

In 2019, of the 895 spots Stuyvesant High School gave to the incoming eighth-grade class, only seven were extended to black students. The year before, only 10 black students were given spots, and the class of 2021 included only 13.

WMC News & Features
April 15, 2019 | Aviva Stahl | International, Politics
Women dominated the efforts to oust the president of Sudan

The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.

WMC FBomb
April 15, 2019 | Julie Graves | Education
Why gender-minority-only college debate tournaments are important

Men comprise the majority of the debaters who compete in American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) events. The majority of the APDA debate teams’ leadership, as well as the members of the national organization’s executive board, are also men.

WMC Live
April 14, 2019 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #282: Jessikka Aro. (Original Airdate 4/14/2019)

Robin on Trump’s purges, Bernie’s dough, Bibi’s madness, Lori Lightfoot, Saudi women’s update—and our first sight of a black hole: “the face of infinity.” Guest: Finnish investigative journalist Jessikka Aro confronts both Russian trolls and

WMC FBomb
April 10, 2019 | Kadin Burnett | Sports
This female college football player is making history

At 22 years old, standing at 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 164 pounds, this year Harris became one of the only women to ever earn a scholarship to play college football.

WMC News & Features
April 09, 2019 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
How Trump is bypassing Congress to restrict reproductive rights

Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.

WMC FBomb
April 09, 2019 | Nany Guerrerx | Arts and culture, Body image and body standards, Feminism
Womxn are flourishing in the Yucatecan Ballroom Scene

Womxn in Yucatan, Mexico, fight misogyny, homophobia, classism, and racism on a daily basis. Some womxn in the state are fighting back through the arts. One such community doing so is the Yucatecan ballroom scene.

WMC FBomb
April 08, 2019 | Amna Nasir | Disability, Feminism, Media, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Here are five emerging media platforms inspiring Indian and Pakistani feminists

Emerging feminist media platforms are helping South Asian people engage in, navigate, and mobilize feminist movements.

WMC Live
April 07, 2019 | Rita Dove, Irena Klepfisz, Toi Derricotte | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #281: Rita Dove, Irena Klepfisz, Toi Derricotte. (Original Airdate 4/7/2019)

Robin celebrates Poetry Month with poets Rita Dove, Irena Klepfisz, and Toi Derricotte.

WMC FBomb
April 04, 2019 | Gabriel Leão | Feminism, International
The 11-year-old girl forced to give birth post-rape is not an exception in Argentina

Recently, reports surfaced of an 11-year-old girl from a rural area in Argentina who got pregnant after being raped by her grandmother’s partner. Mariela Belski, Executive Director of Amnesty International Argentina, told the FBomb more about this case and how Argentinian girls and women are fighting for justice thanks to the Ni Una Menos (Not One [Woman] Less) movement.

WMC FBomb
April 02, 2019 | Kalli Jackson | Arts and culture, Media
“Us” examines the American fear of the marginalized “other” rising above oppression

Us not only imparts an eerie warning about the repercussions of idly living a life of privilege as people suffer beneath you, but takes the warning a step further by showing what can happen when the “outsiders” the privileged are so afraid of letting in, the people who have been pushed below and ignored, finally force their way in — and do so with a vengeance.

WMC FBomb
April 01, 2019 | Leora Tanenbaum | Body image and body standards, Girls
The ongoing problem of slut-shaming and dress-coding

I recently launched the Instagram project @BeingDressCoded to create a space in which we don’t just observe individual stories about dress codes but can look for patterns and learn from a larger, collective story about sexism and sexual objectification.

WMC Live
March 31, 2019 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #280: Dr. Leana Wen. (Original Airdate 3/31/2019)

Robin on Mueller’s “Report,” the imperiled ACA, The 4 B Boys, how women’s brains age differently than men’s, and a propaganda subway. Guest: Dr. Leana Wen, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

WMC FBomb
March 29, 2019 | Barrie Komsky | Education, Feminism
History.com features only one woman giving a speech on its website. Why?

It’s important for History.com to not only add more videos and audio that feature women who made a difference in history, but specifically to let these women use their own voices to tell their stories whenever possible.

WMC News & Features
March 28, 2019 | Angela Bonavoglia | Media, Violence against women
Rape culture unmasked: “Roll Red Roll” comes to theaters and PBS’ POV

The filmmakers hope that the documentary, a devastating portrayal of rape culture, will be used to fuel change.

WMC News & Features
March 28, 2019 | Aviva Stahl | International, Misogyny
Saudi sisters who fled from their families are granted asylum after months in Hong Kong

The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.

WMC News & Features
March 26, 2019 | Caryl Rivers, Rosalind C. Barnett, Ph.D. | Politics
Despite gains for women in Congress, white men are still the big winners

Women now hold 102 seats in the House, the most ever. But thanks to Trump, 2018 was the political Year of the White Man.

WMC FBomb
March 26, 2019 | June Jennings | Arts and culture, Media
Captain Marvel is a film for the “fake news” era

Can a superhero movie like Captain Marvel teach us anything about the “misinformation age” in which we currently live?

WMC Women Under Siege
March 25, 2019 | Cecilia Kamuputa | Gender-based violence, International, Politics, Violence against women
Zimbabwe’s security forces still enjoy impunity months after alleged rapes during crackdown on protests

Several women had reported being raped by security forces during the government crackdown on protests in January. Since then, no formal investigations have been undertaken; no formal independent complaints mechanism has been established; and the outrage has dissipated.

WMC FBomb
March 25, 2019 | Garnett Achieng' | International
Uganda's new tourism campaign blatantly objectifies women

Ugandan Tourism Minister John Kiwanda plans to feature “curvy and sexy women” as a primary Ugandan attraction in the official literature for the nation’s tourism. The plan also includes the launch of a beauty pageant called “Miss Curvy Uganda,” the winner of which will be used in an advertising campaign.

WMC Live
March 24, 2019 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #279: Salomée Levy. (Original Airdate 3/24/2019)

Robin on “herstory”at NASA: the first women’s spacewalk, plus an unnerving new drug for postpartum depression, Captain Marvel trounces trolls, and exposing white supremacist “replacement theory.” Guest: Salomée Levy of GirlUp.

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