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Bossypants: Why We Should All Bask In The Wisdom Of Tina Fey
Tina Fey is awesome. This is not new information. She’s hilarious, successful, and still dedicated to her family. Fey seems genuine and grounded, which is always nice to see in famous people, who I ty...
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I'm Writing A Book. And You're Going To Help Me.
When I was a freshman in high school, I read Jessica Valenti’s book Full Frontal Feminism and it changed my life. It’s what sent me to Feministing, which introduced me to the feminist blogosphere, whi...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Girls In Trouble
Alicia Jo Rabins hails from Brooklyn, New York. Alicia started violin lessons at the age of three and has trained herself to be a classical violinist. While growing up with such aspirations, Alici...
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Saturday Vids: Out of the Vinyl Deeps - Ellen Willis on Rock Music
In 1968, the New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first popular music critic. Her column, Rock, Etc., ran for seven years and established Willis as a leader in cultural commentary and a pioneer in the...
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Magazines, T.V. and Disney: The Negative Portrayal of Beauty in the Media
From a young age, I recognized a pattern in the movies I frequently watched. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White - their major goal is to find Prince Charming. Being young an...
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Wanna Be A Victim? No Thanks.
I love music. From Tchaikovsky to T-Pain, my iPod has it all. I also love to sing. I'm not all that good at it, and my off-key crooning is usually confined to my shower or car, but nevertheless I enj...
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May 16, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Misogyny
Looking Back: Advice For Teenage Feminists
Technically, I am done with high school. My classes are over. My AP tests have been taken (just barely...I pity the person grading my Stats AP). I am just a few weeks and random final presentations aw...
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10 Things Hillary Was Thinking When Osama Was Shot
Osama Bin-Laden’s death a week ago has caused speculation, excitement, relief, concern, and yet another totally uncalled for hyper-examination of Hillary Clinton’s body language. This time it’s not he...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Emiliana Torrini
Emilíana Torrini (born May 16, 1977) is an Icelandic singer, best known for her 2009 single Jungle Drum, 1999 album Love in the Time of Science and for performing "Gollum's Song", during the endin...
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Saturday Vids: White House Correspondents' Dinner
In case anybody hasn't yet seen the speeches from the White House Correspondents' Dinner - now is the time. Both President Obama and Seth Meyers brought their A-game.
President Barack Obama
Seth M...
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May 12, 2011 | JessicaMc |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Violence against women
Torture
Vaginas and clitorises and lips,
cut to pieces, ripped open,
stitched up, closed up,
torn apart like dispensable junk.
Hanging bits of flesh
falling to the ground
and blood-soaked thighs trembli...
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Bridesmaids: Not Your Average Wedding Movie
One of the benefits of going to a college at large, urban campus is that we fairly often get cool free previews of things. My freshman year I went to a free advanced screening of Role Models (hilariou...
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One Step At A Time
It all started on April 10, 2011. That’s the day my ex-boyfriend decided to leave me for another girl, another relationship. I’ve had my heart broken before, but it was this relationship, or the endin...
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The Catholic Church and Education
I live in a catholic country (Italy), in a small town and I go to a catholic and very conservative school.
I am not very religious and, most importantly, I am a feminist. This means I don’t agree wit...
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May 07, 2011 | Brian C |
Arts and culture,
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Oh Land
Nanna Øland Fabricius (born 20 November 1985 in Copenhagen), better known by her stage name Oh Land, is a Danish singer-songwriter and record producer. She is currently living in Brooklyn, New York Ci...
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Saturday Vids: Life Size Barbie
I remember hearing the truth about Barbie when I was in Middle School. I have no idea what the context was, but I remember feeling shocked at the fact that if Barbie were real, she'd have a 39-inch bu...
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May 05, 2011 | Shvaugn |
Arts and culture
Red Sunflower Desire
I can remember
the first time I split
this earth open,
locked within the blooming
garden of sunflowers that
formed the upstairs bathroom.
I told you first
almost begging, asking about
how I sh...
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Your Feminist History Lesson For The Day: The ERA
When people are being really annoying about the whole "do we still need feminism" thing, I find it less effective to start listing the thousands of reasons why we do, and more effective to slam wh...
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In Defense of Comprehensive Sex Education
A very hot-button issue that has brought feminists to the forefront is comprehensive sex education. It is something that Jessica Valenti defends vehemently in the notable Full Frontal Feminism, and th...
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Katie Couric: What Does Her Reisgnation Mean?
For fifteen year Katie Couric said good morning as the co-anchor of NBC’s TODAY show until 2006 when she left to become the new anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with her first broadc...
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My Reasons Why
Tonight I spoke with the grandfather of a friend of mine after a basketball game. The game had just ended, and we were standing around, waiting for the team to emerge from the locker room, making the ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Dum Dum Girls
Dum Dum Girls are an indie pop band from California currently signed to Sub Pop Records. Their name is a homage to The Vaselines album 'Dum Dum' and the Iggy Pop song "Dum Dum Boys". The group als...
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Saturday Vids: Ideal Women
Elena Rossini is a film director, cinematographer and editor from Italy. She's also a really awesome woman who is working on multiple feminist projects, including a documentary about the manipulation ...
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Endangered Species Summit: Our Generation and Body Image
The Endangered Species Summit - an international movement focused on improving the way women around the world view and treat their bodies, in the media and beyond - took place last month. There were b...