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Here's to 2012: My Year As A Feminist
I’ve never really been one for New Year’s resolutions. All the promises I’ve made to myself have either been forgotten two or three days into January or are things that I’ve rationalized not doing. Fo...
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Saturday Vids: Not Disappointed By President Obama
I don't generally like to get too overtly political on this blog, but I definitely think this video is worth taking a look at no matter what your political persuasion. Recently, a lot of my leftist fr...
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Winner of FemFlash 2011: Male Privilege
I recently had the honor of co-judging a Feminist Flash Poetry and Fiction contest (called FemFlash) for the website MookyChick. The winner of the contest was recently announced and I'm proud to cross...
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Down With Photoshopping
Retouching photographs of models in magazines and newspapers has been a point of controversy in the publishing industry ever since technology like Photoshop has become readily available. Most magazine...
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December 25, 2011 | Bryan N |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Feminism,
Violence against women
Why I'm So Passionate About Women's Rights
People often ask me why, as a man, I am so passionate about women’s rights. The answer is that I got into women’s rights because I have seen so many women put through so many horrible things. There is...
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The Plan B Decision: Sacrificing "Change We Can Believe In" for Expediency?
Like every other rational individual in our country, I was in a state of utter shock when I heard the news that, for the first time in history, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Serv...
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Pride and Prejudice: A Firsthand Account of Literary Sexism
Flashback: It is the first week of 11th Grade. Having gone to the same school since kindergarten, I have no need for first day back-jitters or thinking what to wear to impress my peers. I wear what I ...
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Breaking Up With Facebook
As much as my generation seems to support Facebook, I believe that underneath all that tagging and friending, there’s a deep-seated resentment that we’ve had to grow up in a world where it’s the norm ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was a "second generation" abstract expressionist painter. She was an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement, even though ...
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December 16, 2011 | Marie B |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism
"I Only Asked You Out Because You're Pretty"
...But you're actually really funny, too!" Well no shit, asshole. In addition to a sense of humor, I also possess opinions, aspirations, and a black belt, but since we only made it to gelato and Gas U...
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December 13, 2011 | Rebekah R |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
Way Too Teeny Weeny Itsy Bitsy
A few months ago I was watching TV while running on my basement treadmill when a news story flashed across the screen. The breaking story? Bikinis for babies.
Needless to say the feminist in me was f...
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Ms-guided: I Was A Teen On Drugs
When I was 17 years-old I was put on the birth control pill. I had painful, heavy periods that would get me out of gym class, but that wasn't the only reason I was taken to the doctor. My mum, who bec...
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Saturday Vids: Teen Social Entrepreneurship and Nika Water
I came across this video a couple of weeks ago when I was procrastinating on Facebook. I'm Facebook friends with Nina Church -- we were actually BFF's in pre-school before her family moved to Californ...
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Chicks Before Dicks
In high school (and in life) people learn that they have to have priorities. Do grades come before sports? Do friends come before family? Does my boyfriend come before everyone/everything else? Af...
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Are We Bonobos or Chimpanzees? Evolution and Occupy Wall Street
Bonobos and chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives, are almost exactly the same type of monkey. They are so similar, in fact, they only became distinguished as separate species in 1929. But chimpan...
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December 04, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Gloria Steinem,
Media,
Politics,
Violence against women
The Anita Hill 20: Sexual Harassment and Teens
On October 15th, I had the honor of participating in the "Sex, Power and Speaking the Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later" conference. I spoke on an intergenerational panel that also featured speakers Ki...
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Saturday Vids: It's Time
AllOut.org writes about this video: When our friends at GetUp!, an Australian campaigning organization, launched this "Love Story" video, they hoped Australians would watch and raise their voice for m...
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My New Hermione: Miranda Lambert
Ever since the beginning, Hermione Granger has been praised as being the first female character who showed girls that it is ok to be the hero of the story, to be smart, to stick up for yourself and to...
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Gaddafi: An Unexpected Advocate for Libyan Women?
When I first heard about the death of Libyan Dictator, Moammar Gaddafi (who seems to be America’s favorite frenemy) my thoughts went to the women of Libya: what would it mean for them? I quickly reali...
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Reading Women Writers
Like many other college freshmen across the country, I enrolled in a prerequisite, required English class for my first semester of school. Unlike most other college freshmen, though, I wasn't stuck re...
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Saturday Vids: How To Hit On An Asian Girl
It's sad that these things need to be spelled out, but there it is.
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Saying No To Rape Culture
My name is Brenna, I'm eighteen, and I've been glossy-magazine-free for nine months now. That's right. Back at the advent of 2011, I decided to eschew Cosmo, Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Marie Claire, L...
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A Rant About My Sexist Week
There has been too much sexism is surrounding me this week and it's really getting me down.
To start, a boy I know who I considered one of my friends and who knew about my intolerance for sexism thou...
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An Interview with Jessica Valenti
A few months ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Jessica Valenti - founder of Feministing, author of Full Frontal Feminism and awesome person all around.
For those not in the know, Jessica is th...
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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...