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How Are Teenage Girls Supposed to Identify as Feminists With These Role Models?
She’s staring at me like I’ve just insinuated she embodies the anti-Christ. “A feminist? No, I’m not a feminist. Oh my God.” Despite the fact that this classmate of mine just spent ten minutes ranting...
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April 28, 2010 | Jaded16 |
Feminism,
International
Being Indian AND A Feminist? Has The World As I Know It Come To An End?
I'm fairly new to this space called the "feminist blogosphere". My blog is just shy of being six months old and has recently become a tad bit famous over the last month or so. With this e-fame (howeve...
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Prom, Dresses and Body Image Issues
I’m looking for a prom dress at the moment. Okay, maybe I’m not. Perhaps a more accurate description of my current activities is that I’m writing this lot a rambling spiel, whilst conveniently skiving...
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Being An Ally
In December, I attended the National Association for Independent Schools’ Student Diversity Leadership Conference, which I blogged about here. This conference, which brought together high school stude...
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Prom and New Opportunities: Setting Ourselves Up To Fail?
My mother is a wonderful, funny woman. She has several interesting stories from her past which she shares with me, including one about prom. For her prom, she decided to go dressed in a long, powder b...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Ellen Page
A lot of people may criticize Juno, saying that it's an unrealistic portrayal of teen pregnancy (and these are valid claims) - but it's hard to deny how awesome Ellen Page was in that movie. She's fun...
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April 22, 2010 | Jessica S |
Feminism,
Health,
International,
Politics,
Religion,
Violence against women
Nicaraguan Government and Restrictive Abortion Laws
I recently read an article about how the Nicaraguan government is denying cancer treatment to a women because she is pregnant. This is only the latest outrage in a country that has the most restrictiv...
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Bunnies and The Morning After Pill
March 23rd was the one year anniversary of a major victory the Center for Reproductive Rights won against the FDA. A federal court rule that the FDA "acted in bad faith and in response to political pr...
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The Asking
It’s time for prom! I’ve refused to go prom all these years but decided to go this year since it’s my senior year. Besides, the prospect of mocktails is just too much to decline…
Anyway, I’m always f...
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The Runaways (Filmed and Real)
Yesterday, I went to see the movie The Runaways. I am simultaneously a huge fan of Dakota Fanning and Joan Jett herself while not such a huge fan of Kristen Stewart, and wasn't entirely sure what to e...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Rachel Roy and Jennifer Venditti
So, I recently got an e-mail in regards to SWAS - a regular feature on the FBomb. A reader asked why SWAS was restricted only to musicians...and basically I could think of no other answer than, "I'm r...
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April 15, 2010 | Christina B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Equality
I am a face of change
No you are not deranged
Change of what? you ask
Change that the underanged see
Female Stereotypes
I am still a face of change
And you are still not deranged
You tell me you don’...
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Male Studies (As Opposed to Women's Studies)
On Monday, the New York Times reported about the creation of a "Male Studies" program at Wagner College in Staten Island.
Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institu...
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B-Listed interviews Nancy Lublin
A while back B-Listed (which, if you don't know is this really cool pop-culture human rights blog aimed at influencing the media) interviewed Nancy Lublin, who I think is really rad.
Basically, Nancy...
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Jessica Simpson and "The Price Of Beauty"
VH1 is notorious for its truly amazing decisions about television programming, and now it can add “The Price of Beauty” to its track record.
Jessica Simpson makes the argument that her new show is go...
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