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Yorkie: Not Just For The Blokie
The majority of us in the UK will remember the controversial 2002 campaign for the chunky, ‘King size, not Queen sized’ Yorkie chocolate bar. This campaign's primary slogan stated daringly: ‘It’s Not ...
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Why I Seriously Dig Katniss Everdeen
WARNING: Spoilers for the entire Hunger Games series ahead!
For months, three of my friends were begging me to get into the Hunger Games. “You’ll LOVE Katniss,” they all told me. “She’s such a strong...
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Saturday Vids: Awesome Teen On Relationships
densing11 on "our culture's expectancy of marriage & relationship and how it affects the self-worth of particularly younger girls." Some damn good advice.
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Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly"
As Grand Rapids, Michigan yawned good morning at 7:45 am and the sun began blinking hello, I sat in my human sexuality and relationships class, watching one of the best videos I have ever seen in an a...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female ...
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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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Maybe SHE'S Just Not That Into You
A friend of mine recently created a zine about the slut/stud double standard for a electives course called Feminisms that she’s taking. She included various fairy-tale-esque ads she found in magazines...
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Labeling Myself As A Feminist (Literally)
Right after we graduated high school, I gave one of my best friends a bumper sticker that read "This Is What A Feminist Looks Like." It was partially a joke - something to remember her über-feminist f...
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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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February 11, 2012 | Brian C |
Arts and culture,
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Katie Costello
As musicians and music-listeners alike venture into a creative climate in which technological elements often define an artist’s sonic and visual identity, Katie Costello emerges as a unique and timele...
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Saturday Vids: Brave
HOW PUMPED ARE YOU FOR BRAVE?
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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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Beauty Chase
society told her she was ugly and she bought into the lie
she dissected every bit of herself for judgmental inspection
and tried to feel beautiful all in vain
comparing herself to photoshopped figures...
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An Interview With Merle Hoffman
Merle Hoffman is the publisher/editor-in-chief of On The Issues Magazine and one of the most outspoken advocates for progressive and feminist issues.
Merle established Choices Women's Medical Cen...
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A Plead To Hollywood: I Hate Romance Movies
Have you seen the trailer for "The Vow"? If you haven't, go watch it. But, be warned, you may vomit.
In the film, a loving couple's lives are destroyed after a car accident gives the wife amnesia the...
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January 28, 2012 | Brian C |
Arts and culture,
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Seeker Lover Keeper
There an awful lot of acoustic bands that come around these days. Oftentimes it's hard to differentiate between them (largely because there's a factory somewhere that makes most of them). But don'...
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Saturday Vids: I'm Feminist Enough
"Using video and still imagery, the I’m Feminist Enough… project seeks to visualize the fresh face of feminism and demonstrate to our young sisters (and brothers) the value of feminist thought in our ...
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Was "Iron Lady" Too Soft On Margaret Thatcher?
Being the avid history nerd that I am, I was basically counting down the minutes until the opening of Iron Lady, the new film chronicling Margaret Thatcher’s life, starring Meryl Streep. I mean, what ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Ani DiFranco
After 20 years in the music biz, self-described “Little Folksinger” Ani DiFranco is still technically little, although her influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded peopl...
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Saturday Vids: Riley On Marketing
In which a little girl realizes gender is a construct and that girls and boys can both like pink and superheros. I want one just like this.
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Countering Hatred on the Internet
Let’s face it: hatred on the internet is big. Hatred of all varieties including sexism, racism and homophobia (etc.) are found everywhere online, and some sites in particular are known as a breeding g...
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January 13, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media
Saturday Vids: Fotoshop by Adobé
"This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty." - Jesse Rosten
Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo....
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FWD: How To Prevent Rape
I've always hated chain letters. They're never nice, like, 'Just for receiving this, you get a free puppy'. No, it's always, 'If you don't forward this to ten people you're going to die alone and ge...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Joy Askew
"When writing about myself I would always start by saying that I was 'originally from the North of England'… in fact that's not true but I grew up there from age 5 in Newcastle, famous for its coa...