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How I Fit Into Mainstream Pride Events As A Queer Black Woman
I realized that I wasn’t straight when I was about 15 years old. Soon after, I got involved with my high school's Gay-Straight Alliance. During one of the club's meetings, the steering committee chair...
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Kim Kardashian West Reminds Us Why The Feminist Label Does Matter
On Monday, Kim Kardashian West set the record straight: She’s not a feminist.
"For me, a feminist is someone who advocates for the civil and social rights and liberties of all people, regardless of t...
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How The Sexist Media Treatment of Hillary Clinton Affects Young Girls
"I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet," Hillary Clinton said on July 27th, acknowledging her historic presidential nomination during the Democratic National Conventi...
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August 09, 2016 | Vicki Soogrim |
Feminism,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
The Powerful Message of Mothers of the Movement
On Tuesday, July 26th, several mothers of police brutality victims spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. United by the organization Mothers of the Movement, the women joined to...
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Qandeel Baloch's Death Proves Misogyny Is Still Lethal
"I believe I am a modern day feminist," Pakistani internet celebrity Qandeel Baloch wrote the day before her death, according to the Huffington Post. "I believe in equality. I need not to choose what ...
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SHE-E-O: THINX Founder & CEO Miki Agrawal On Feminism, Entrepreneurship, & The Future
You may have seen or heard about the subway ads for the period panties THINX, featuring a super-yonic-looking grapefruit — or maybe you just followed the ridiculous controversy about those ads. Perhap...
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Serena Williams and Gabby Douglas Are Proving Black Girls Are Magic
There is absolutely no question that racism still persists in the United States today. While examples of this systemic reality abound — from racism in the criminal justice system to the disproportiona...
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Praise Young Girls For Being 'Smart,' Not 'Pretty'
For a long time, whenever I pictured an engineer I automatically imagined a guy who looked something like Mark Zuckerberg. I never imagined an engineer could be someone who looks like me. There are li...
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June 09, 2016 | Kinder L |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Misogyny,
Science and tech
#Fitspo: Inspirational or Harmful?
Whether you’re a Tumblr fanatic, an avid Twitter user, or Instagram-obsessed like I am, it’s probably safe to assume you’ve seen posts captioned with the hashtag "#fitspiration" come across your News ...
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The Truth About Gender Bias On The Internet
Siri does not know how to respond to the question "I have been sexually assaulted." When searching for abortion clinics on Apple Maps, one is instead shown adoption clinics. Finding a clinic or pharma...
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The Stanford Rape Case Exemplifies The Privilege At The Heart of Rape Culture
Brock Turner, a top swimmer at Stanford who raped an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after a party, was sentenced to six months in county jail on Thursday. The presiding judge felt that a full sen...
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Is A Digital Tool The Key To Addressing Campus Sexual Assault?
The stark reality of the high rate of sexual assault on college campuses is nothing new, and neither is college administrations’ resistance to addressing it. Far too many students continue to seek sup...
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Comparing Kim Kardashian to Ayesha Curry Hurts Us All
Our society has long been obsessed with comparison. Girls are routinely pit against each other to "win" the supposed honor of being the "hottest" in the halls of their high schools. They're even encou...
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Why I Created A Gay, Male Superhero
As a gay man, I know how much I owe women for the equal opportunities I have, and do, enjoy. When I was bullied by other boys schools, I always found female friends to nurture and care for me. I came ...
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Why The Gender Gap In STEM Fields Still Exists
Women make up roughly 50 percent of the U.S. workforce, yet comprise only about 25 percent of American STEM workers — numbers that have even stagnated in recent years. Although some might claim this u...
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The Truth About Having "Bad" Hair
I am a young Senegalese woman with “kinky” hair — specifically, type 4A/4B according to Andre Walker’s hair chart — and I have heard every comment in the book about it. Since preschool I have been to...
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What Kim Kardashian's Nude Selfie Reveals About The Way We View Female Sexuality
In March, Kim Kardashian West posted a nude selfie on Instagram. As has come to be expected whenever a woman (especially a high-profile woman) does something with her body, people had a lot to say abo...
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What Volunteering In The South Taught Me About My Own Prejudice
This year I decided to participate in a spring break program called the Collegiate Challenge, which offered students the opportunity to partner with our university's chapter of Habitat for Humanity an...
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We Need To Address The Music Industry's Gender Gap
"I’m tired of men who aren’t professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to ‘help me out’ (without being asked), as if I did this by accident and I'm gonna flounder without them,"...
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Bust Ghosts, Not Women: Sexist Responses To The 'Ghostbusters' Trailer Have Got To Go
From Fantastic Four, to Zoolander 2, to Disney’s live-action remake of The Jungle Book, it seems that 2016 might be the year of cinematic reboots, remakes and sequels. Perhaps one of the most anticipa...
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March 17, 2016 | Julie Zeilinger |
Feminism,
Free Speech,
Misogyny,
Online harassment,
Politics,
Violence against women
Why President Obama's Decision to Call Out Online Harassment Is So Important
President Obama could have discussed any number of pressing issues during his recent speech given in honor of Women's History Month. A significant portion of his speech, however, was devoted to an iss...
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Why Abusing Animals For The Sake of Fashion Is A Feminist Issue
Kim Kardashian calls herself a feminist. She casually disclosed this piece of information to Rolling Stone magazine in July 2015, which caused a stir among her critics. There are plenty of reasons to ...
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Here's The Truth About Hooking Up In College While Feminist
Prior to college, I had absolutely no experience with casual hookups. I had heard about them all throughout high school, but all of my sexual experience occurred in a single serious high school relati...
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Why Are Women's Sports Still Not Covered In The Media?
More people tuned in to watch the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 than any other soccer game shown on English-language television in this country in recorded history. The entire event garnered a record...
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The Feminist Case for Veganism
As someone who has been involved in feminist activism for years, I've observed that animal oppression is often a polarizing subject between vegan and non-vegan feminists. But it doesn't have to be....