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An Interview with Michael Kimmel
Michael Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include Changing Men: New Directions ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Nina Storey
Nina Storey uses the phrase "21st-century soul" to describe her music, "because it's rooted in a soul sound with bluesy overtones," she explained to AfterEllen.com. "The music that I write is a mix of...
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Saturday Vids: Representative Maureen Walsh Does The Right Thing
Representative Maureen Walsh was one of two Republicans in Washington who voted to pass the same-sex marriage bill on February 2nd. Here's a video of her moving remarks about her honorable decision.
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February 12, 2012 | Colleen L |
Arts and culture,
Education,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours
In its formative days (in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and then in the 1960s and ‘70s), feminism was, above all, about promoting equal social and political citizenship for women. Contempora...
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Transgender: An Overview
Many people don’t know what being transgender means. I, not being transgendered, don’t fully understand every aspect of it either but my fiancée is in the middle of transitioning so I want to express ...
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Saturday Vids: The Gay Rights Movement
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Saturday Vids: It's Time
AllOut.org writes about this video: When our friends at GetUp!, an Australian campaigning organization, launched this "Love Story" video, they hoped Australians would watch and raise their voice for m...
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My Sexuality Is None Of Your Business, Thanks
Probably the most common thing I hear regarding my collegiate matriculation selection is one of a pejorative why I would ever, in-the-name-of-sanity, select to attend an all-female institution. Unsurp...
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Five Reasons To Keep An Eye On Senator Gillibrand
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to the US Senate by Governor David Paterson in 2009 to fill the vacancy left by Hillary Clinton when she was selected by President Obama to serve as Secretary ...
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Saturday Vids: A Soldier Comes Out Live
If you haven't seen this video in which a soldier films his experience coming out to his father, you have to. All I have to say is thank God DADT was repealed.
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Saturday Vids: K-Y Intense Features A Lesbian Couple
There's been a lot of talk recently in the feminist blogosphere about K-Y Intense's new commercial. K-Y has been airing commercials that feature "real" couples who use their product for some time now,...
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Male Bisexuals: As Common As Unicorns?
I know a lot of people - gay and straight - who believe that bisexuality, specifically bisexual men, exist about as much as they believe that unicorns exist. It seems that there are people who believe...
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An Interview with Chloe Angyal
Chloe Angyal is usually the one asking the questions: in addition to being an editor at Feministing, she also writes their popular "Feministing Five" interview feature (of which, believe it or not...
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Magazine Crisis: Bitch Magazine
I don’t get intricately handwritten letters very often. So, I settle for the next best thing: a magazine addressed to yours truly every month! Awesome, right? I certainly thought it was and I was quit...
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A Gay Girl In Damascus: A Straight Man's Hoax
I had no idea what was going on as I listened to NPR in perilous rush-hour traffic a few days back: I almost drove into the black Suburban in front of me in my perplexed state. I marveled at the menti...
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June 13, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Girls,
Health,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Violence against women
#YASaves
I have been an avid fan of Young Adult fiction since the third grade. I vividly remember standing in the library check out line with the rest of my class during "Library Time" eagerly digging into my ...
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I'm Bi and Super Fly!
What does being bisexual actually mean?
Thats the question I've asked myself for years, and last month I finally got an answer: I am bisexual and that's okay! I finally realized that I am sexually a...
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Bitch Is Not Bitchin'
So yet another sports figurehead is feeling the repercussions of using homophobic slurs during a game. A few weeks ago, LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 for hurling an insult towards an N...
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April 24, 2011 | Brenna McCaffrey |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Violence against women
Violence in Baltimore Evidence of Transphobic Culture
(Warning: The following video link shows real and brutal violence.)
This video, which surfaced on the internet yesterday morning, shows a transgender woman being beaten by two female customers at a M...
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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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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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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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