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WMC News & Features
February 26, 2018 | Asha French | Arts and culture
Viewing “Black Panther” through a “Black women” lens

The new Marvel blockbuster imagines an Africana womanhood impervious to the effects of colonialism.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 26, 2018 | Annie Hylton | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Study: 85 percent of Yazidi women interviewed describe unethical journalism practices

In a new report, a troubling pattern in which journalists paid little mind to ethics and consent when interviewing survivors of sexualized violence emerges.

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February 26, 2018 | Emma Gray | Feminism, Politics
A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance

The fight against injustice will always be long and often discouraging. The only way to persist is to choose a cause you feel that your life—and the lives of others—depends on, one you can speak to from (for lack of a better, less cheesy phrase) the heart.

WMC Live
February 25, 2018 | Catherine Kerrison, Pascale Lamche | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #238: Catherine Kerrison, Pascale Lamche. (Original Airdate 2/25/2018)

Robin on new anti-NRA tactics; both former "Playmate" and porn star joining MeToo against Trump; breast-feeding in Congress—and KFC?!? Guests: Catherine Kerrison on Jefferson's daughters—two white, one black; Pascale Lamche's Mandela film "Winnie."

WMC News & Features
February 22, 2018 | Sinéad Kennedy | Arts and culture, International
Fired! Irish women poets and the canon

After a highly regarded anthology of Irish poetry gave short shrift to women’s contributions, a group of poets took a stand for inclusion.

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February 22, 2018 | Roberta Nin Feliz | LGBTQIA, Race/Ethnicity
The recent decrease in acceptance of LGBTQ people is an intersectional issue

Especially during Black History Month, it’s important to not only consider, but prioritize, those who exist at the intersection of marginalized identities.

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February 21, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Black Panther is a victory in cinematic representation

Finally, audiences — many for the first time ever — get to see a complex black superhero supported by a majority black cast, who thrive in positions of royalty and power based on their society’s technological advancement, in an Afrocentric environment.

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February 20, 2018 | Nicole Caputo | Feminism
Why I march

When we got off the bus, everything changed. I felt my innocence leave me that day as I began to grasp what it meant to be a woman.

WMC News & Features
February 19, 2018 | Aviva Stahl |
Controversy over #MosqueMeToo sheds light on sexualized violence and xenophobia

With a new editorial and hashtag, writer and feminist Mona Eltahawy stirred debate and inspired other victims of sexualized violence in religious spaces to come forward.

WMC Live
February 18, 2018 | Emily Wilson | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #237: Emily Wilson. (Original Airdate 2/18/2018)

Robin on repeated school shootings, systemic sexism, fake "followers," the Right's assault on the courts, and how #MeToo just might bring down Trump. Guest: Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. Plus Surrealism Corner.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 15, 2018 | Ana P. Santos | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Politics
Teen ‘widows’ of Duterte’s drug war face a bleak economic future

They are the hidden cost of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines: single, teenage mothers whose partners have been killed by police or vigilantes. And without a job or government support, it’s near impossible for them to support their children.

WMC News & Features
February 14, 2018 | Koritha Mitchell | Race/Ethnicity
Know Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? You should also know Frances E. W. Harper

Harper was an outspoken activist for decades on abolition, temperance, public education, voting rights, and women’s equality. Why isn't she a household name?

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February 14, 2018 | Kayleigh Bolingbroke | Sports
What banning grid girls says about wider workplace inequality

Formula One racing recently announced it would end decades of ceremonial tradition by abolishing “grid girls” — young “promotional models” who introduce the races and are sprayed with champagne by the winning driver.

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February 13, 2018 | Karla Majdancic | Arts and culture
H&M’s recent ad campaign proves companies haven't learned their lesson about racist products

In early January, H&M came under fire for an ad campaign that many people considered racist and this incident is hardly the first example of a company marketing racist products.

WMC Live
February 11, 2018 | Ellen Pao, Linda Gordon | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #236: Linda Gordon, Ellen Pao. (Original Airdate 2/11/2018)

Robin on WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter and wife-battery, and on House Dem. Leader Nancy Pelosi's historic Dreamers plea. Guests: historian Linda Gordon on her Second Coming of the KKK book; Ellen Pao on how she shook up Silicon Valley pre-Me Too.

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February 09, 2018 | Farha Khalidi | Environment, Feminism
How climate change disproportionately affects women

No matter how much the President of the United States may want to deny it, climate change is real.

WMC News & Features
February 08, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Body image and body standards, Health, Politics
Male Arizona legislators stuck in the Dark Ages as women advocate for free prison sanitary products

As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 08, 2018 | Shayera Dark | Education, Girls, International
Attitudes shifting to include girls' education in African refugee settlements

For many refugee children, especially girls, paying for and staying in school is a challenge. This program in a Ugandan refugee camp is working to change that.

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February 08, 2018 | Julie Graves | LGBTQIA, Media
Lesbian media representation changed my life

Finding more accurate representations of my identity was so important not just because I saw myself in them, therefore, but because I felt connected to a wider community.

WMC News & Features
February 07, 2018 | Katti Gray | Health
Lack of abortion access creates economic hardships for women

A new study shows that laws restricting abortion access are creating long-lasting economic consequences for women.

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February 07, 2018 | Kalli Jackson | Feminism, Media
Why Wendy Williams fails to understand #MeToo

Wendy Williams recently unfortunately contributed to an already prevalent culture of victim blaming and silencing women.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 05, 2018 | Sophie Mbugua | Economy, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
The village that gave up FGM and gender taboos—because of economics

When the women of Rwandit village learned how much initiation ceremonies for girls and boys were really costing them—in terms of money and lost education – they radically reformed their traditions, giving women and girls more power in the process.

WMC Live
February 04, 2018 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #235: Ursula K. Le Guin. (Original Airdate 2/4/2018)

SPECIAL EDITION WMC LIVE. Celebration of the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin (d. Jan. 22, 2018): Robin's Exclusive Conversations with UKL on poetry, fiction, feminism, motherhood, politics, freedom, craft, and play. Le Guin reads her latest poems.

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February 02, 2018 | Lauren Davidson | Politics
An important, bipartisan bill is taking on sexual harassment

The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act aims to eliminate corporate policies that allow companies to silence victims of sexual harassment in the workplace.

WMC News & Features
February 01, 2018 | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | Media, Race/Ethnicity
“We are more complex than that”: How television portrays Asian American women

A new study of the portrayal of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on television has found little progress over the past decade.

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