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Saturday Vids: Educate Girls in Malawi
Statistically, according to UNESCO’s 2005 Education For All monitoring report, only 31% of adult women can read and write in Malawi. This is shocking when compared to men – 80% of whom are literat...
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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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Women's Super League: Up and Running
April 13th 2011 was a landmark day for women's football in England as Arsenal took on Chelsea in the inaugural match of the FA's Women's Super League (the WSL). And it was also a personal landmark da...
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An Interview with Zach Wahls
Zach Wahls is a nineteen-year-old Engineering student at the University of Iowa. He is also a staunch gay-rights advocate who bravely and eloquently testified before the Iowa House of Representatives ...
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April 04, 2011 | Alli B |
Feminism,
Health,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
Racism and Sexism: Are Both Still Problems?
I recently heard some of my classmates talking about how sexism really isn't as big a problem today as racism is. They said that racism is on a different level and that all the feminists need to shut...
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March 23, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Economy,
Feminism,
Health,
Politics
The Affordable Care Act: Feminism Moving Forward
One of the reasons many girls today don't identify as feminists is because there are quite a few of us who are convinced that men and women are totally equal. The 1970's took care of all of our politi...
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February 27, 2011 | Marie B |
Education,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Sports,
Violence against women
Martial Arts: Not Just Defense
This weekend I will be testing for my black belt after eight years of Taekwondo classes. During those eight years, I’ve grown into the person I am today. Not only have I learned how to kick, punch, an...
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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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How the AP Deals With Women
I don’t like being patronized. I know this probably isn't shocking, but I seriously HATE it. It also annoys me to no end when people patronize womankind.
This year, I’m taking AP European History. Ig...
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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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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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Effects of Feminism Not Reachable to All Indian Women?
Recently Indian newspapers have been flooded with reports about the Dar-ul-Uloom?s (an Islamic school propagating Sunni Islam in India) fatwa stating that it is un-Islamic for women to work with men. ...
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December 07, 2010 | Brian C |
Feminism
Just Because Berry Is In The Name...
Does anyone else enjoy partaking in the outlandish factoids of Snapple caps? I recently got a fact that stated that a banana is technically a berry and strawberries are not even berries. I will repeat...
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Are Chivalry and Feminism Incompatible?
This summer, I had doors opened for me, was ushered into rooms ahead of my male counterparts, and was even offered a spot in line ahead of the boys. I attended an amazing international program where I...
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Military Draft and Reverse Sexism
One or two years ago, I was taking my first Women’s Studies class at my college and it began my infatuation with feminism. Naturally, I had mixed feelings at first between agreeing with my teacher’s p...
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October 11, 2010 | Courtney F |
Feminism,
Violence against women
A Modern Rant on Modern Feminism
The past few days I’ve noticed some hating going on towards modern feminism on tumblr, and hey, everyone’s entitled to their own opinions, but it still frustrates me. I don’t think people really under...
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Chelsea Baker: 13-year-old Role Model
I remember one day in 5th grade during P.E. class, a particularly douchey male classmate of mine turned to me completely unsolicited and said, "Boys are better than girls at sports, you know." Now, if...
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Saturday Vids: SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY IS BACK!!
Wow, I think I got a good portion of my excitement out in the caps-heavy title, but SERIOUSLY, SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY IS BACK!!! I love it.
Find more videos like this on Smart Girls at the Party...
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Not Two Separate Species
I'm taking a creative writing class this summer at the local community college. One day, a man brought in a story he'd written? I won’t get into what it was about, but when he finished reading it to t...
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Queer Hair and Musings on Activism
I recently donated my hair for the 4th time. Locks of love requires that donations measure at least 10 inches, tip to tip. But while in the past my donations had left me with bobs at least chin-lengt...
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Boys: Second Class Citizens in the Classroom
Apparently, when it comes to education in New York City, boys are "second class citizens." Or at least that’s what Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys and the recent article Are The...
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Free to Be You and Me
On my last procrastination streak, in addition to watching dozens of videos of young children singing pop songs on YouTube, I stumbled upon a gem from my childhood – all 44 minutes of ‘Free to Be… You...
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July 08, 2010 | Ashley P |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
International,
Media,
Politics,
Violence against women
Female Bodies and Female Genital Mutilation: There is No Room for Compromise
Apparently, parental request for altering their young daughters’ genitalia had reached the magnitude to which the American Academy of Pediatrics issued their policy statement in April condoning and in...
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
One of the ultimate highlights of my middle experience was the concept of the "Window Trip." Our middle school, dedicated to giving us ignorant brats a broader view of the world, forced us onto a bus ...