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March 28, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Education,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Media,
Violence against women
Feminist Click Moments
In honor of the Feminist Portrait Project's Blog Carnival, (part of Feminist Coming Out Day) I'm re-posting an article I wrote this past summer about my feminist "click" moment, which I originally...
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Saturday Vids: Feminist Nerdfighting
As many of you, as frequenters of the Internet, probably know, in 2007 young adult author John Green and his brother, an environmental blogger named Hank Green, started a video blog called Brotherhood...
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February 15, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Misogyny
Masculinity: From A Feminine Perspective
It pains me a little bit to say this, but I have to admit it. I'm kind of a hypocrite. I've spent over a year on this blog exploring most every facet of being a teen girl in this culture through a fem...
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Saturday Vids: Katie Makkai "Pretty"
I came across this video while researching performance poetry for a competition I'm involved in at school, and I was floored by how truthful and beautifully written and performed it is.
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February 07, 2011 | Aleka Raju |
Arts and culture,
Education,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
International
The Right to Learn
"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.?" - Rigoberta Manchu Tum.
Women are quite possibly the most dis...
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Saturday Vids: The Making of a Girl
Research shows that sex trafficking spikes on Super Bowl Sunday. But what exactly does sex trafficking in America look like?
What You Can Do
- Help pass a Federal Bill to increase direct support s...
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January 17, 2011 | Katherine C |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Health,
Media,
Misogyny,
Religion,
Violence against women
Thoughts on Victimization
In ancient Celtic myth, the goddess Macha was forced by Conor mac Nessa of Ulster and his men to race against his horses while trapped in human form, even though she was pregnant. It made her begin l...
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Snooki: An Emblem of Female Polarization
There is probably nothing that depresses me more than walking into a bookstore - to me, a sacred institution - and coming face to face with the most recent attempt of a starlet to write a book (becaus...
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She Will (Not) Be Loved
I walk down the hall, books held so tightly against my chest that my knuckles are white. I don’t know three-quarters of the people I pass but I feel they’re all looking me, that they can just see what...
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January 02, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Feminism,
Girls,
Online harassment,
Science and tech
Teens and Technology: A Feminist Issue
The media would like you to believe that every time you log on to Facebook or – god forbid – the evil black hole of narcissism that is Twitter, another nail is inserted into the coffin of your general...
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Feminist Sci-Fi TV
Science fiction is not known for being entirely female-friendly. If you enter any video storeor search the genre on netflix, many movie covers show picture of skantly clad women clinging to brawny men...
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Saturday Vids: Glamour Magazine and The Girl on Page 194
Over a year ago, Glamour Magazine printed a photo of model Lizzi Miller (known to many as the "girl on page 194"). Despite the fact that she is a "plus size" model, which seems to be something magazin...
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An Interview with Selena Torrado
A few weeks ago, I met Selena Torrado, a teen living in New York who started her own high school feminist club called Femtastic! I was ecstatic to see that someone shared my passion for reaching out t...
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"Feminist" Advertisements: Exploitation or Progress?
Peggy Orenstein’s “The Way We Live Now” piece in New York Times Magazine a couple months ago explores what she calls the “empowerment mystique,” or using themes of girl power to sell products that hav...
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November 08, 2010 | Talia |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Violence against women
Why Couldn't I Say "Rape"
One of my extremely good friends is finishing out her high school career abroad, and I spent the weekend at her apartment with some other friends as a send-off party before she left. When we were disc...
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Teenagers and Double Standards
I know it’s been said before but, as a teenage girl with friends of both genders, double standards are a massive issue for me. It’s come to a head recently, because of two entirely unrelated events.
...
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Saturday Vids: Good Girls Don't Get Fat
Originally embedded in Rose M's post, this video about Dr. Robyn Silverman's book Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls & How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It sh...
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October 20, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Health,
International,
Politics,
Violence against women
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Understanding the Conflict
This year in school, I'm taking a really amazing English elective called Gender, Culture, Power (SURPRISE! It's taught by the same awesome teacher who handed me Jessica Valenti's Full Frontal Feminism...
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October 14, 2010 | Sonia L |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Blazing Stink of an August Sidewalk
Blazing stink of an august sidewalk. My fingers my eyeballs are grey with the newsprint of this morning’s sins and a heavy shamed sickness knowing I am born with Certain Inalienable Rights: to have le...
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Easy A and Teenage Sexuality
Whether we were actually at the party where it went down or heard about it at school the Monday after, we've all witnessed it. Two people hook up. As they walk into school, the rumor spreads with thei...
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September 20, 2010 | Anna M |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Education,
Feminism,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
An Unabashed Imitation of An Article by Peggy McIntosh
In 1990, Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh wrote an essay called “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. McIntosh observes that whites in the U.S. are “taught to see racism only ...
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Half The Sky
Over the summer, I read Half the Sky. The entire book was incredible, but I was moved by the chapter on the sex trafficking industry. I wrote this story as a way to try to imagine what that experience...
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My Feminist Rant
First off, I want to clearly state that I’m well informed about feminism and I associate myself with feminism, despite the fact that many things within the feminist movement bother me. For example, th...
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Do It Anyway
In my opinion, Courtney Martin is one of the coolest people ever. I appreciate nothing more than honesty - especially when backed up by intelligence and clear hard work - and nobody is more emblematic...
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Ellen Hopkins, Censorship and Why We Can't Tell Teens the Truth
Crank and Glass, both written by Ellen Hopkins, follow Kristina Snow, a high achieving 17 year old, as she nose dives into a meth addiction, with details on her subsequent rape, unwanted pregnancy and...