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Quite the (Un)Feminist Dilemma
As much as I try, I cannot live in a void. Sure, I can keep to myself, read when none of my LadyFriends are around, ignore the douche dude in class when he's mumbling, "You think so because you're a w...
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Kagan: The Right Woman for the Job?
I'm a first time FBomb writer (yay!) and I am addicted to legal news and ethics, so I chose to write about Elena Kagan, the pending Supreme Court Justice nominee. It has been a year since President Ob...
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Indian Muslim Women: Excluded from Indian Feminism?
In India, the Dar-ul-Uloom's (an Islamic school propagating Sunni Islam in India) recently declared a new fatwa which states that it is un-Islamic for women to work with men and talk to them. The fatw...
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An Interview with Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt, a former teen mother, was the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. She is currently an activist, author and leading expert in women’s rights, leadership and politics and blogs ab...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Esperanza Spalding
Hailed as a prodigy on the acoustic double bass within months of first touching the instrument as a 15-year-old, Esperanza Spalding has emerged as a fine jazz bassist, but has also distinguished hers...
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June 11, 2010 | Ashleigh J |
Feminism,
Violence against women
Emotional/Verbal Abuse IS Abuse
"You are worthless. You are nothing, but a worthless slut."
Have you heard this before?
Is a vile name your term of endearment? Does your partner tell you how pitiful you are? Instead of complimenti...
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Hayley Williams' Topless Photos: Who Cares?
So, as you may or may not have heard, a topless photo of Hayley
Williams was posted on her Twitter. The post was deleted fifteen
minutes later, and thirty minutes after that, another post appeared sa...
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June 06, 2010 | Anne C |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism
Body Acceptance
Body image is an issue for a lot of teenage girls, and especially for me. After struggling with a weird relationship with food for the past few years, I’ve recently tried to stop worrying about what ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, daughter of Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, was born in Golders Green, London, England on May 26, ...
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My Click Moment
While I haven't read the actual "Click" book yet, reading Nellie's essay and the concept of the book as a whole really got me thinking about my own click moment - about when I knew I was a feminist.
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Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
Some of you may have already heard about the awesome new anthology "Click: When We Knew Were Feminists" edited by Courtney Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan. The FBomb is lucky enough (and let's just sa...
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Language Matters
Barack Obama was my sisters 2010 University of Michigan commencement speaker. He was incredible, but he said one thing that I immediately had a negative reaction to. He said, "Through periods of great...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn is an American singer-songwriter, poet and musician. The Los Angeles-born musician is also eccentric and label-defying in the best possible way.
As a young girl, it was Emilie´s dream t...
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Affirmative Action?
Maren H. wrote a great piece on the importance of feminism and focused on gender discrimination in hiring. It coincided with something that ticked me off today so here is my rant.
As my tradition-bou...
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Female/Male Brain?
When I took an online 'female/male brain' quiz for class, it told me I have a male brain. I have a strong visuospatial sketchpad - I got nearly 100% on both an angles task and a rotation one. This is ...
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All The Way
Therese Shechter, the awesome documentarian who brought us I Was A Teenage Feminist, is it again, and this time she's tackling virginity with "How to Lose Your Virginity":
Our new trailer! "How To ...
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May 24, 2010 | Allison Y |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
I Am Not
I am not:
a helpless lamb.
a damsel in distress.
a glorified baby receptacle.
a little flower incapable of thought.
I am a philosopher, a scientist,
an artist both in the visual
and auditory re...
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Prom and Assimilation
As a senior in high school, I am less than ecstatic about senior year and its attendant rites. That’s right: it’s prom time.
It’s a fortuitous year to be queer and prom-bound, as Constance McMillen ...
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May 20, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism
The FBomb
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a feminist. Well, not recently, I pretty much always think about that, but more specifically how I define feminism and how it carries throu...
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Belgian Burqa Ban
I just read an article about the vote in Belgium that led to a nationwide ban of wearing burqas in public.
On one hand, I can see where people who are for the ban are coming from. The burqa does have...
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
One of the ultimate highlights of my middle experience was the concept of the "Window Trip." Our middle school, dedicated to giving us ignorant brats a broader view of the world, forced us onto a bus ...
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Brilliance is Human
We’ve all read about the studies and statistics on girls in school- that we self-defeat in math and science, that we don’t speak up in class. That we’re afraid. But what about when our teachers and ...
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May 16, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Misogyny,
Online harassment,
Science and tech,
Violence against women
National Punch a Slut Day
The facebook trolls who think they're hilarious for their misogynistic groups and events are at it again, folks!
Some FBomb readers and a recent Jezebel article alerted me to a series of "slut punchi...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Electrik Emily
Electrik Emily is a 26 year old rock musician, blogger, and all around "women in music" buff, currently living in Seattle, WA.
Born in rural Pennsylvania, her musical career began as a rebellious tee...
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