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April 30, 2015 | Ines R | Feminism
Can Anyone Be The ‘Perfect’ Feminist?
Do you ever feel like you owe something to second wave feminists? I do and often think of these women who changed the world before I act. I wonder if someone who lived through some of the most revolut...
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April 28, 2015 | Bridget L | Arts and culture, Feminism, LGBTQIA, Media, Religion
Where Are The Jewish and Queer Students at Hogwarts?
I’m a huge fan of Harry Potter. I grew up reading the books, have seen each film countless times, and dressed up as Hermione for many Halloweens. But while I’ll always love the series, I also recogniz...
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April 26, 2015 | Marina Arcuschin de Oliveira | Body image and body standards, Economy, Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Science and tech
#SpreadFeminisim: Should Feminism Go Viral?
A friend of mine recently shared #SpreadFeminism, a challenge campaign encouraging fellow feminists to post a video, picture, poem, or anything else related to feminism on their Facebook page for five...
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April 23, 2015 | Karaleigh S | Arts and culture
call me a Woman
I am not just pretty. I am Ethereal. I am Lethal. My Eyes are Sharp-Cut Stones and My Smile spreads like Hot Butter I am Everything and I am Nothing I have Galaxies of Freckles that would...
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April 21, 2015 | Sabrina N | Education, Feminism, Gender-based violence, Health, Violence against women
The First Convicted Case of American Feticide Proves America Still Treats Women Like Vessels
On March 30th, 33-year-old Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She is the first woman in the United States convicted of feticide. But there is far more to this case than that fact alone r...
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April 19, 2015 | Sonja S. | Feminism
Why Are Your Needs More Important than Mine?
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines double standards as “a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another; especially: a ...
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April 16, 2015 | Ines R | Feminism
A Letter to My Mom, A Modern Day Woman
More and more I see myself thinking like you. Less like a child, and more like a woman. I used to think that a woman could either have the white picket fence with a happy family and a golden retriever...
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April 14, 2015 | Cheyenne T | Arts and culture, Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
Meet The Teens Using Intersectional Art As Feminist Activism
First I found myself through art. Then I found myself through feminism. Finally, I found myself through activism. I was confused but ambitious in high school and passionately tried to learn everything...
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April 12, 2015 | Sharmee S | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Media, Misogyny, Race/Ethnicity
Why I Bought Skin Lightening Cream At 11 Years Old
I was 11 years old when I succumbed to buying my first tube of "fairness" cream. It was right after a popular boy teased me by calling out "Weh blackie" to me. Before he teased me, I internalized mos...
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April 09, 2015 | Brittany Brathwaite and Kimberly Huggins | Education, Feminism, Health
8 Things You Can Do To Empower Young People This National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Today is the 3rd National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day — a meaningful day for us as an adolescent health educator and feminist youth worker. But we weren't always as aware or passionate about educ...
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April 07, 2015 | Anonymous | Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
My Mixed Race Features Are Not Pieces of a Puzzle
What Are You? I find myself being asked that question more often than I like to admit. It takes many forms, broken down and built back up again, that same old question rattling around in my head like...
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April 05, 2015 | Abby H | Feminism, Media, Sports
I Am Proud to Throw Like a Girl
Female professional athletes in this nation do not get the recognition they deserve. As a female athlete who competes at the collegiate level, I know first hand that women's sports just do not get the...
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April 02, 2015 | Saskia G | Arts and culture
Pheromones
The curve of you, where the cheek meets the thigh, is sweeter than lips strawberry in a tinted photo which is not your own anymore. Instead savor the place of skin wrapped by summer clothes str...
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