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April 14, 2011 | Nurdiyansah | Arts and culture, Feminism
The Little Girl Dance
The little girl is dancing terribly wild She clinks, how her body moves Only herself While she’s surrounded by boys Whirling like a lily Turning around over and over Until loose from the rotatio...
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April 13, 2011 | Fiona L | Economy, Feminism, Girls, Media, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
How Effective Is A Girlcott Anyway?
Abercrombie & Fitch and American Apparel have done it again. In the past, Abercrombie & Fitch has come under criticism for T-shirts with racist and sexist sayings, thongs for girls as young as...
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April 12, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, LGBTQIA, Media, Online harassment
Perez Hilton and Bullying
Over the past few years, the news has been inundated with tragic stories of teens and cyberbullying. There were the stories of Phoebe Prince and Megan Meier, who after being tormented via social media...
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April 11, 2011 | Audrey S | Feminism, Gender-based violence, LGBTQIA, Media, Violence against women
The Opposite of a Crush
Once, for an Introductory Sociology course, I gave a lecture about social oppression. It was fairly abstract. I didn't talk about any specific kind of social oppression, like gender oppression or raci...
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April 09, 2011 | Brian C | Arts and culture, Environment, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Big Tree
Big Tree is a five piece folk band hailing from Brooklyn. They classify themselves as "A group of friends that love playing music and getting brunch the next day." Little is known about Big Tree's...
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April 08, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Environment, Feminism, Media, Politics
Saturday Vids: Ellen Page on Bill Maher
Not to distract from the intensely serious problem that Ellen raises on the show, but SERIOUSLY?! HOW AWESOME IS SHE!? I want to be her best friend. Thank god for one of the few role models teen girls...
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April 07, 2011 | Melanie Z | Arts and culture, Body image and body standards, Feminism
My Body Is
My body is not an object. It is not another’s to sculpt or scrutinize. It is not the canvas on which you paint your expectations and standards. It is not your playground. My body is not your proje...
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April 06, 2011 | Danielle B | Feminism, Politics
"Hello, Ms. President." (Is That So Hard To Believe?)
The Yahoo! Homepage is literally one of the first things I see when I get up in the morning, and whenever I see a featured article about a woman who's made an impact for reasons other than parading ar...
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April 05, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, LGBTQIA, Politics
An Interview with Zach Wahls
Zach Wahls is a nineteen-year-old Engineering student at the University of Iowa. He is also a staunch gay-rights advocate who bravely and eloquently testified before the Iowa House of Representatives ...
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April 04, 2011 | Alli B | Feminism, Health, Misogyny, Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
Racism and Sexism: Are Both Still Problems?
I recently heard some of  my classmates talking about how sexism really isn't as big a problem today as racism is. They said that racism is on a different level and that all the feminists need to shut...
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April 03, 2011 | Oliver L | Education, Feminism, LGBTQIA, Media
I'm A Boy
My interest in feminism could have started when my mom told me that people “aren’t weird, they’re just different.” It could have started when I was teased in elementary school for having braces or in ...
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April 02, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Kate Walsh
She’s been called music’s best kept, not-so-secret ‘secret.’; ‘The missing link between Joni Mitchell’ (hails UK’s The Guardian) and a host of female singer/songwriters cut from the UK’s intricate...
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April 01, 2011 | CClio333 | Girls, Media
Saturday Vids: Nerdy Girls Need Love Too
In the spirit of the Team Unicorn debate, here's a great example of a woman refusing to apologize for her nerdiness! ...
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