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Saturday Vids: Women, War and Peace
Starting on October 11th, PBS launched a fascinating 5-part mini-series entitled "Women, War and Peace." As they describe it: "Women, War & Peace challenges the conventional wisdom that war and pe...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Maria Bamford
So, I'm breaking the musician mold this week with something a little different...a female comedian! And not just any female comedian but one of my favorite comedians of all time. I present to you Mari...
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Saturday Vids: Really, Tide?
Props to my English professor for sending our class this video with the commentary: "(This) definitely got a "really?" from me...I find it hard to believe that they can get away with these kinds of ge...
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October 28, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Saturday Vids: Fifty People, One Question
Warm fuzzies abound.
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Saturday Vids: Patrick Henry Hughes
Your daily dose of inspiration.
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What Are Your Favorite Feminist Resources?
So, as I have mentioned before, I'm writing a book and I want to include the FBomb community in any way I can in accomplishing that task. In fact, you guys already helped me title it and everything.
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Saturday Vids: Homecoming Queen Kicks Winning Field Goal
This shit's as awesome as it is unreal - like, seriously, it belongs in a Lifetime made-for-TV movie. It would be even more awesome if the local anchor didn't make an ADORABLE joke at the end about ki...
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October 09, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Education,
Feminism,
Media,
Politics,
Science and tech,
Violence against women
Sexual Harassment and the Legacy of Anita Hill: Where Are We Now
This Saturday (October 15th) I will be speaking at the conference "Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later". I'm going to be representing our generation and speaking about our relatio...
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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 All I have to say is thank God DADT was repealed.
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Slutwalk NYC
This past weekend, I went to Slutwalk NYC. I could talk about what an incredible, inspiring experience it was. I could talk about how I did feel conflicted about what I saw as certain gaps between the...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Clare Maguire
Clare Maguire (born 1987 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom) is an English singer, songwriter signed to Polydor Records.
Maguire comes from a large musical Irish family and started singing and wr...
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Saturday Vids: SlutWalk NYC
SlutWalk NYC is today. I'll be there in my "This Is What A Feminist Looks Like" shirt (that's what's up). Hopefully all you NYC-area FBomber's will be, too!
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Jane Lui
Listening to singer-songwriter Jane Lui’s music is like watching a Michel Gondry film. There's a whimsical, homemade feel that's inventive, magical, & intimate. Handmade music boxes, found obj...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: The Go-Go's
The Go-Go's were the most popular all-female band to emerge from the punk/new wave explosion of the late '70s and early '80s, becoming one of the first commercially successful female groups that w...
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Saturday Vids: Secret Girl Language
Why? Because Pretty Little Liars is my guilty pleasure, because this made me laugh out loud and because we're GURLZ (duh).
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College Confidential: Disorientation
The bottom line of college orientation is that it’s a paradox: feeling simultaneously deeply comforted and entirely thrown off your axis, spinning rapidly towards the unknown. Or at least, that’s what...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Jean Grae
Jean Grae (real name "Tsidi Ibrahim"), born November 26, 1976 is a hip hop artist from New York. She rose to prominence in the underground hip-hop scene in New York City, and has since built an in...
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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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Campus Confidential: My Freshman Year, I Vow To Major In Unafraid
I'm proud to announce that for the next school year, I'll be writing a column for The Frisky about my Freshman year in college. I'll be writing about everything from frat parties to relationships ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Haley Bonar
Haley Bonar (born 1983, Brandon, Manitoba) is an American alternative country singer-songwriter who hails from South Dakota. She has lived in Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota. In July 2009, she move...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Chrissie Hynde
I was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past week showing my visiting family all that Cleveland has to offer (that's all I came up with) and we got to see the Women Who Rock exhibit. One of t...
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An Ode To Sheryl Sandberg's Awesomeness
I'm always bitching about how few really positive female role models are out there for young girls. Considering the celebrities we have worshiped / continue to worship - Snooki, Lindsay Lohan, Paris H...
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Saturday Vids: Zappos - More Than Sexist?
Two young women, Bree and Molly, making change by walking the streets, opposing Zappos' new advertising campaign. AWESOME. Sign their petition here.
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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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Saturday Vids: Jenna Marbles
My friend is obsessed with the YouTube star Jenna Marbles, and forced me to watch about fifteen of her videos in one sitting. At first, I was skeptical. I usually don't find YouTube performers all tha...