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October 14, 2020 | Sehar Chowdhry | Girls
Why Indian Schools Need Better Sex Education

Sexist microaggressions perpetuated among peers also contribute to the prevalence of rape culture in Indian high schools.

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October 12, 2020 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Race/Ethnicity
Director Tiffany Frances Explores Asian American Identity in New Film ‘Hello From Taiwan’

The film centers on a Taiwanese American girl named Christy, who is struggling to process both her parents’ divorce and the new family dynamics that come with it.

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October 09, 2020 | Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley | Feminism, LGBTQIA
Meet the 20-Year-Old Queer Latina Fighting to Abolish ICE

Oquita's undocumented status has not stopped her from advocating for immigration justice and fighting to defund and eventually abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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October 08, 2020 | Regiane Folter | LGBTQIA
How Uruguay Is Leading on Trans Rights

To improve the U.S.’s policies on this front, their government can look to a perhaps surprising place for a model for how to better support trans citizens: Uruguay.

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October 07, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Media
Muslim Teen Actress Iman Vellani Is Cast as Ms. Marvel

Marvel Studios, one of the — if not the — most impressive names in the superheroine genre of entertainment, made headlines in recent years for their plans to add Ms. Marvel — a Pakistani-American, Muslim female superhero who first appeared in her own comic in 2014 — to their impressive roster of characters on screen.

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October 01, 2020 | Maddie Solomon | Politics
Mourning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, so many women didn’t just mourn the loss of an amazing person, but also the loss of a historic fighter for gender equity.

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September 28, 2020 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This New Children’s Book Aims to Address Undercounting of Kids in the 2020 Census

Cravalho stars in a new video storytime session in which she reads WE COUNT! A 2020 Census Counting Book for Young Children (and the Grownups Who Love Them).

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September 24, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Health
How the USPS Controversy Has Affected Birth Control Access

Women have never been more reliant on health care being remote.

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September 21, 2020 | Isabella Poppe | Disability, Feminism, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
An Interview With Human Rights Activist Sandra Guimarães

Sandra Guimarães is a Brazilian activist for human and animal rights.

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September 17, 2020 | Abigail Sanchez | Feminism
This 16-Year-Old Is Raising Awareness About Sexual Harassment in High Schools and Colleges

In 2019, 16-year-old Thrisha Senthilnathan started an organization devoted to preventing and spreading awareness about sexual harassment in schools and colleges.

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September 15, 2020 | Megan McGibney | Feminism
The Group Monumental Women Wants to Break the ‘Bronze Ceiling’

On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the long-awaited Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled in New York City’s Central Park.

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September 14, 2020 | Frances Nguyen | Gloria Steinem
An Interview with ‘The Glorias’ Director Julie Taymor

Taymor spoke with WMC’s The FBomb about the film and what audiences can take from Steinem’s extraordinary example.

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September 10, 2020 | Rebone Masemola | Race/Ethnicity
Traveling While Black

I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.

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September 08, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Environment
An Interview with Teen Climate Change Activist Alexandria Villaseñor

Over the past two years, Villaseñor has become a leader in the youth climate movement, joining Greta Thunberg's school strike and founding Earth Uprising.

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September 07, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | LGBTQIA
Trans Votes Matter

While many people are aware of America’s history of suppressing the votes of racial minority communities, it’s a pattern that affects other minorities, too — especially trans voters.

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September 04, 2020 | Alexandra Lento | Race/Ethnicity
Embracing My Blackness

Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.

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September 02, 2020 | Tharwa Boulifi | Feminism
Remembering Feminist Activist Gisèle Halimi
On July 28, Gisèle Halimi (born Gisèle Élise Taïeb), a Franco-Tunisian feminist activist, lawyer, politician, and author of 15 books, passed away at the age of 93. Tunisia and France lost a prominent,...
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September 01, 2020 | Kate Oczypok | Health
Two Women on the Front Line of COVID-19 on How Their Experiences Will Shape Their Vote in November

“I think it has become clear on a national level that there was and is extremely poor leadership."

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August 28, 2020 | Tamar Lillenthel | Feminism
This Young Entrepreneur Is Empowering Gen Z to Have Conversations That Matter

Sophie Beren believes that "from conversation, real change can happen."

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August 27, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Health
How Coronavirus Relief Funds Are Being Weaponized Against Reproductive Health Care

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) doles out between $4 million and $10 million to controversial faux-abortion clinics known as crisis pregnancy centers.

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August 24, 2020 | Ajeé Buggam | Feminism
For the Feminist Movement to Succeed, We Need to Recognize Our Privilege

How can we build on the strengths of our common experiences, while acknowledging our differences, to demand change?

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August 21, 2020 | Catherine K. | Girls
A 10-Year-Old Girl Struggled to Get An Abortion In Brazil

Every hour, four girls under 13 are raped in Brazil.

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August 20, 2020 | Kellie Haulotte | Politics
What It’s Like To Be A First-Time Poll Worker

Due in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant shortage of poll workers across the country. Amber Berger, who lives in Menominee County in Michigan, tried her best to help.

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August 18, 2020 | Maitreya Motel | Education, Race/Ethnicity
I'm Sick of What Students Are Taught About American History

The America of our history books is rose-colored, simple, and false.

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August 14, 2020 | Tamar Lilienthal |
Why It's So Important For Young People To Vote

I used to hate “political” people. Today, I couldn’t be prouder to be one of them.


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