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10 Reasons I Love Lady College
As I look back at my first semester of college, I’ve come to realize that I made the perfect decision for me. It’s comforting that after a year of college application hell that I got into and actually...
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What Happens After You Lose Weight
I wouldn't say that I was ever fat. I was always just overweight enough that girls would tell me I looked "fine" and guys wouldn't tell me much of anything (because I guess my dazzling intellect and s...
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Vogue vs Dunham vs Jezebel
Recently, I have been caught up in thinking about Lena Dunham's photo-shoot for Vogue Magazine. I am an avid Girls watcher and a Lena Dunham fan: she's quirky, funny, sharp, and not afraid to say wha...
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Body Positivity Looks Different For Each Person
I clearly did not wake up like this. There is liquid eyeliner on my eyes to create this cat eye, there is bronzer on my cheekbones to create the illusion that I have been in the sunlight, and there is...
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Saturday Vids: Elsa Teaches Disney Princesses About Empowerment
Though there has been some debate about whether or not Frozen is feminist or not, I personally feel that I can get behind this musical parody's message: why be confined to hiding behind true love?
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Why #Unapologetic Barbie Might Just Help The Body Positive Cause
As a feminist blogger who consistently deconstructs the way things like Barbie and digitally altered images of models objectify women and hold them to unachievable standards of beauty, I completely un...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Jessica Childress
Jessica Childress is an explosive talent poised to take the music industry by storm. She is reminiscent of the golden age of classic soul, with a voice that will move and inspire you. This LA soulstre...
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This Valentine's Day, Treat Yo Self
Each Valentine’s Day I can count on one thing: a bouquet of flowers from my mom. This bouquet used to make me feel lame, lonely, not loved in any “real” romantic, non-mommy way. As a feminist I have a...
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Why Women Are Still Expected To Be Domestic In India
A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who is going to publish a novel next year. She is exuberant to have become a novelist and was excitedly telling me about the characters in her book. My heart ...
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Help the Obama Administration Fight Sexual Assault On College Campuses
Universities have a responsibility to protect students from violence, discrimination, harassment, and assault. When something violent happens to students on or off campus, universities have a responsi...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: London Grammar
English trio London Grammar combined sparse electronic pop in the model of the xx with dramatic, big-voiced lead singer Hannah Reid, whose vocals evoke contemporaries Florence Welch and Natasha Khan o...
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Saturday Vids: Income Inequality and HOPE Credit Union
I'm currently taking a sociology class called "Perspectives on Inequality" and the first major issue we've addressed is the current state of income inequality in the United States. The U.S. is the mos...
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The Disney Channel's First LGBTQ Couple
The last weekend of January sure was an eventful one in the pop culture world. Sunday night was the 56th Grammy Music Awards and, although I didn't have the patience to sit through the entire awards s...
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On Being Incorporated
The term incorporated is often used to describe an organization or business that has become legalized and made official. People can become incorporated as well, as in the cases of celebrities putting ...
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Saturday Vids: Ten Responses to the Phrase 'Man Up'
Thanks so much to reader Monique for submitting this fantastic video of spoken-word poet Guante describing ten ways to respond to the phrase "Man Up."
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The Russian Broadway Community Responds to Russian Anti-Gay Propoganda Law
Anybody who has been paying even a modicum of attention to the 2014 Winter Olympics knows about the outrage caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to sign into law an act prohibiting th...
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Sexist Jokes: Still Not Funny
One of my male teachers has repeatedly made a joke about girls belonging in the kitchen. Usually, he'd make that comment, some girls in my class would jokingly yell "hey!" and he'd laugh, say he's jok...
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Saturday Vids: Sally Kohn On Emotional Correctness
In her TED talk, Sally Kohn makes the brilliant case for "emotional correctness" as a way for us to transcend our political differences and actually listen to each other.
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Why Girls Want American Girl to Commit To Diversity
When I was younger, I owned an American Girl doll, like many girls my age. I wasn’t as big a fan as some girls, but I really loved the books that went with each doll. I read all the stories that were ...
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Feminism Has Changed Me: Claiming My Black Latina Identity
Throughout the last few weeks, I have been introduced to a powerful movement called feminism. I have never been as inspired and motivated to use my voice than I am right now. The more that I have been...
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Saturday Vids: Celebrating the Heroic Women of 2013
Is this a corporate video produced by Microsoft as a way to promote their products? Yes. Did it still make me happy to see clips of inspiring women who made 2013 great set to an over-played pop song? ...
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Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self
I was inspired to start Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self, an anthology of advice letters written by fifty women to their teenage selves, because next year, my daughter will be turning thirteen. I w...
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Women's Football: Feminist or Sexist?
Football seems to be the sport that excludes women the most. In this day in age we have women's leagues for softball, baseball, and the WNBA, but football always had men in the spotlight being cheere...
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Recovering from an Abusive Relationship
After I escaped my abusive relationship I overexerted and exhausted myself at my own expense for the sake of resolving public opinion. I felt I needed to explain why I had been behaving so differently...
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Saturday Vids: Support Obvious Child
Gillian Robespierre, Writer/Director: "I first made the 'Obvious Child' short film in the Winter of 2009 with my friends Anna Bean and Karen Maine. We were frustrated by the limited representations of...