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How I Learned Being Seen As "Sexy" Doesn't Equate To Happiness
I was 10 years old the first time someone commented on my appearance in public. I was walking with a boy in my class down the narrow, dark street of East 86th street in New York City. As we reac...
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Teen Girls Need Access To Their Reproductive Rights And Health, Too
The current feminist discourse surrounding women’s reproductive rights is crucial, especially considering that our access to these rights is dwindling and under constant attack. But it seems this conv...
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Why The Gender Gap In STEM Fields Still Exists
Women make up roughly 50 percent of the U.S. workforce, yet comprise only about 25 percent of American STEM workers — numbers that have even stagnated in recent years. Although some might claim this u...
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The Truth About Having "Bad" Hair
I am a young Senegalese woman with “kinky” hair — specifically, type 4A/4B according to Andre Walker’s hair chart — and I have heard every comment in the book about it. Since preschool I have been to...
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It's Time To Start Exercising "Oppositional Resistance"
For a long time, the feminist movement failed to include the voices of marginalized groups. While criticism of this reality has seemed to particularly emerge in recent years, the feminist movement mus...
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The Surprising Way Social Media Can Shape Young Girls' Bodies
The colossal expansion of technology has revolutionzed young women's lives in many ways. With the click of a button, girls can immediately become informed about what’s trending and playing, who’...
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The Truth About Helping A Mentally Ill Friend
Depression is a living breathing monster that stalks America’s youth. It devours confidence, ruins relationships, and even ends lives. I’ve met this beast and seen the damage it inflicts firsthand. I’...
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What Young Women Especially Need To Know About Drinking
I'll admit it: I enjoy a drink or two every now and then. Wine is amazing (especially moscato) and I am old enough to legally partake in drinking it. That being said, there are some hard truths about ...
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April 14, 2016 Feminism
Why "Housewife" Should Not Be A Dirty Word
As the daughter of a full-time mom, the word “housewife” elicits mixed feelings. On the one hand, as a Latina feminist, I am aware of how our patriarchal society governs women's roles and relegates th...
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North Carolina and Mississippi Passed Discriminatory Bills, But I Refuse To Remain Silent
North Carolina and Mississippi recently made headlines for signing two anti-LGBT+ bills into law. News outlets, prominent organizations and officials around the nation roundly decried these measures a...
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What Kim Kardashian's Nude Selfie Reveals About The Way We View Female Sexuality
In March, Kim Kardashian West posted a nude selfie on Instagram. As has come to be expected whenever a woman (especially a high-profile woman) does something with her body, people had a lot to say abo...
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The Binary
With our first breaths we are packaged and
itemized. We are placed on a conveyer belt and
processed through our adjacent existences
of Pink and Blue.
And I wonder what my colour is,
as a person w...
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This is Why We Need To Stop Asking Celebrities If They're Feminists
It seems that one of the most common questions journalists ask female celebrities these days is, “Are you a feminist?” Considering that feminism was essentially a dirty word in the mainstream media fo...
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April 03, 2016 | Rachael H |
Body image and body standards,
Disability,
Feminism,
Health,
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Growing Pains: What Growing Up With Cerebral Palsy Taught Me About Life
Like so many others my age, at 14 I desperately wanted to be just like everyone else. But unlike most of my peers, I had spent 14 years trapped inside of a body that wouldn’t let me move. I was born w...
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This Is What Happens When We Don't Teach Teens Comprehensive Sex Education
In February, President Obama took an important stand for sexual health in the United States: He eradicated funding for abstinence-only sex education in his 2017 budget proposal — a decision backed by ...
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What Volunteering In The South Taught Me About My Own Prejudice
This year I decided to participate in a spring break program called the Collegiate Challenge, which offered students the opportunity to partner with our university's chapter of Habitat for Humanity an...
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The Ghomeshi Verdict Is A Reminder That The 'Perfect Victim' Myth Is Alive and Well
While mainstream culture has certainly embraced feminism as of late, the movement's work is far from done. One of the most glaring examples of this is the persistent doubt and discrediting survivors f...
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We Need To Address The Music Industry's Gender Gap
"I’m tired of men who aren’t professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to ‘help me out’ (without being asked), as if I did this by accident and I'm gonna flounder without them,"...
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What Kesha's Sexual Assault Case Reveals About The Trauma of Shame
In 2014, Kesha sued her producer, Dr. Luke, for allegedly sexual assaulting her. More specifically, she sued for freedom from a contract that bound her to only producing music with her assailant. Her ...
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Bust Ghosts, Not Women: Sexist Responses To The 'Ghostbusters' Trailer Have Got To Go
From Fantastic Four, to Zoolander 2, to Disney’s live-action remake of The Jungle Book, it seems that 2016 might be the year of cinematic reboots, remakes and sequels. Perhaps one of the most anticipa...
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March 17, 2016 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Free Speech,
Misogyny,
Online harassment,
Politics,
Violence against women
Why President Obama's Decision to Call Out Online Harassment Is So Important
President Obama could have discussed any number of pressing issues during his recent speech given in honor of Women's History Month. A significant portion of his speech, however, was devoted to an iss...
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We Need To Talk About The Flint Water Crisis and Environmental Racism
Mainstream America just got a wake-up call about the importance of pushing back on environmental racism and it came from an unexpected source: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
On February 25th...
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Why 'Formation' Is The Most Important Cultural Event of 2016
As one of the most beloved performers in the world, the release of any new Beyoncé song would have been cause for widespread celebration. But the recent release of "Formation" was something else entir...
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Why Abusing Animals For The Sake of Fashion Is A Feminist Issue
Kim Kardashian calls herself a feminist. She casually disclosed this piece of information to Rolling Stone magazine in July 2015, which caused a stir among her critics. There are plenty of reasons to ...
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Here's The Truth About Hooking Up In College While Feminist
Prior to college, I had absolutely no experience with casual hookups. I had heard about them all throughout high school, but all of my sexual experience occurred in a single serious high school relati...