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WMC News & Features
January 25, 2017 | Jennifer Epps-Addison | Economy
To make political progress, look to the #FightFor15 playbook

One of the few bright spots in the recent election was a series of victories on increasing minimum wage. The author, a leading advocate, explains how the fight for a fair economy will be won by women.

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January 24, 2017 | Grace Wong | Feminism, Girls
After Marching
I said I wouldn’t march. In fact, I promised myself I had gotten all the marching out of my system. The day after the election, I protested Donald Trump’s presidency — protests that turned to riots. I...
WMC News & Features
January 24, 2017 | Jenny Warburg | Feminism
Women's March on Washington in images by Jenny Warburg

A slideshow of images from the Women's March on Washington by WMC photojournalist Jenny Warburg.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 23, 2017 | Odharnait Ansbro | Disability, Girls, International, Violence against women, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
‘Young women come to us completely broken’: Q&A with head of Heshima, a Kenyan nonprofit for girls

Once known as a refugee-friendly nation, Kenya is becoming more resistant to taking in people who have been forced to flee their homes. That means added challenges for the nonprofit Heshima and the refugee girls it supports, says executive director Alisa Roadcup.

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January 22, 2017 | Mankaprr Conteh | Feminism, Girls
What I Witnessed At The Women's March
Janelle Monáe took the Women’s March on Washington stage with a box office hit under her belt, hope for unity among the hundreds of thousands of women before her in her heart, and what should have bee...
WMC Live
January 21, 2017 | Helen Czerski, Saudatu Mahdi | Economy, Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #193: Helen Czerski, Saudatu Mahdi. (Original Airdate 1/22/2017)

Robin on demonstrating, organizing, and the white women who voted for Trump. Guests: Physics for everyday life author Helen Czerski; Nigerian feminist leader Saudatu Mahdi on the Chibok girls. Plus, Surrealism Corner.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 20, 2017 | Annie Hylton | Health, International, Violence against women
Unimaginable trauma of Yazidi women is heightened by fragile psychosocial support

In September 2016, when I arrived at a gloomy, two-star Econo Lodge hotel in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Daey*—which means “mother” in Kurdish—was sleeping.

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January 19, 2017 | Virginia Jiang | Feminism, LGBTQIA, Misogyny
Why I March
I remember the first time I was called a fag. It was on a crisp fall day. I was walking to class. A man passed by me. It was casual, almost off-hand, like a bigoted stutter. It wasn’t the first time ...
WMC News & Features
January 19, 2017 | Rebecca Adamson | Environment, Health, Media, Violence against women
The Dakota Pipeline: Fact vs. fake news

Mainstream news media coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline has often been selective, one-sided, and inaccurate. And it has all but ignored the impact on women and girls.

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January 18, 2017 | Marina Preciado | Feminism, Girls, Politics
Why I Organized A Walkout At My High School
Donald Trump announced the launch of his presidential campaign two years ago. At the time, many Americans laughed at the idea that a reality TV star and multi-billionaire businessman with no political...
WMC Speech Project
January 18, 2017 | Ashley Judd | Feminism, Online harassment, Violence against women
Watch Ashley Judd's Powerful Call to Action on Online Abuse

“Online misogyny is a global gender rights tragedy and it is imperative that it ends. Girls and women’s voices are constrained in ways that are personally, professionally and economically damaging.”

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January 18, 2017 | Kayleigh Bolingbroke | Feminism, LGBTQIA
Remembering George Michael, A Role Model For Healthy Masculinity
To say 2016 was a depressing year is a total understatement. Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, an astonishing number of abortion bans were passed, and the deaths of celebrities and ever...
WMC Speech Project
January 18, 2017 | Emma Jane | Misogyny, Online harassment
What the Random Rape Threat Generator Tells Us About Online Misogyny

Rape threats and other sexualized vitriol online feel extremely personal. These are messages that often go into explicit detail about which parts of our bodies will be violated with which instruments. They give the impression that the senders know us, that they are aware of our particular weak spots and of what to say to […]

WMC Live
January 14, 2017 | Carole Bayer Sager, Regine Yau Wai-Ching |
WMC Live #192: Carole Bayer Sager, Regine Yau Wai-Ching. (Original Airdate January 15, 2017)

2017 Premiere! Robin's Open Letter to Pres. Obama, plus the Senate hearings and Putin scandals. Guests: songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, Music Hall of Fame/Grammy/Oscar awardee; 25-year-old Hong Kong legislator who defied China, Regine Yau Wai-Ching.

WMC News & Features
January 13, 2017 | Linda Sarsour | Feminism, Politics
#WhyIMarch

One of the national co-chairs of the Women's March on Washington explains why "intersectional organizing is the agenda moving forward."

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January 12, 2017 | Gabby Catalano | Arts and culture, Feminism
How This Historic Icon Influenced Feminist Writers Today
When I came across the history podcast Footnoting History, I knew I found my niche. I listened to everything from an analysis of Jane Austen’s novels to the Victorians’ chilling Christmas traditions, ...
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January 10, 2017 | Micaela Elizabeth Canales | Feminism
After A Year of Anti-Choice Attacks, This Young Texas Latina Is Fighting Back
I don’t actually remember what happened to the condom—just that it was on one minute and then not on the next. Afterward, when my boyfriend and I realized what had happened, we sat on the edge of his ...
WMC News & Features
January 09, 2017 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Feminism, International, Politics
The UN's concrete ceiling

Efforts to push for the first woman head of the U.N. failed last year, but the new secretary-general, António Guterres, has pledged gender parity during his five-year term. How can he make it happen?

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January 08, 2017 | Faatimah Solomon | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Race/Ethnicity, Religion
What A Hijabi Beauty Contestant Means To Hijabi Teens
Ever since reading the work of authors such as bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, and Naomi Wolf, I have dismissed the concept of physical beauty as a trivial social construct. The mainstream narrative o...
WMC Women Under Siege
January 06, 2017 | Rumbi Chakamba | Girls, International, Violence against women
In DRC, girls choose to become child soldiers to escape poverty

Throughout the conflict in DRC, children have been abducted and made to serve as soldiers. While most are male, it is estimated over a third are female, used mainly as domestic and sexual servants, but sometimes as fighters. Now an NGO has released a report showing that many of the girls weren’t enlisted by force.

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January 05, 2017 | Sara Surface | Education, Feminism, Gender-based violence, Violence against women
A New Avenue to End Sexual Violence on Campus
Sexual assault has been an issue about which I have been deeply concerned for the last four years. I’ve been professionally and personally involved in a variety of efforts to tackle this rampant and c...
WMC News & Features
January 03, 2017 | Gail Spector | Violence against women
Fighting sexual violence in the Trump era

The author, one of many women whose past trauma was triggered when Donald Trump boasted about sexual assault, says that now more than ever, we must keep speaking out against violence.

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January 03, 2017 | Vicki Soogrim | Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
On the Ground: An Interview With The Founders of Columbia University's First South Asian Feminism(s) Alliance
In the fall semester of 2015, the first ever South Asian Feminism(s) Alliance (SAFA) was introduced to Columbia University. SAFA founders and Barnard alumnae Sarika Kumar, Mallika Walia, and Kaavya Ma...
WMC Women Under Siege
January 03, 2017 | Alice Laurel Driver | Environment, International, Violence against women
Trying to shut her up: Indigenous activist facing threats stands up for peace in Colombia

On April 20, Marcia Mejía Chirimia, 28, an indigenous Colombian peace and women’s rights activist, received a text message from someone she believes is a member of a paramilitary group.

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January 02, 2017 | Angela Liu | Feminism, Media, Politics, Race/Ethnicity
Xenophobia and the American Identity
“Xenophobia,” which, according to, Dictionary.com is a “fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers” was Dictionary.com’s 2016 word of the year. The word can also refer ...
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