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Saturday Vids: Girls Season 2
Season 2 of Lena Dunham's Girls premieres tomorrow. Feminists have had some pretty varied responses to Dunham's show...but what do you think? Will you be watching?
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Phyllis Schlafly: Groundbreaker?
For today’s young feminists, the name Phyllis Schlafly may be totally unfamiliar; if anything, it triggers a distant memory of a footnote in an AP US History textbook. Those activists who lived and fo...
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Ladies Abound On The Small Screen--But Not Behind It
Mindy Kaling, breakout star of the Emmy-winning TV show, The Office, garners a lot of attention for her wit and comedic timing as Kelly Kapoor, Dunder Mifflin’s token mean girl and general hot mess. E...
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Saturday Vids: Totally Biased on Akin
If you're not watching Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX...you really should be.
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Saturday Vids: Republicans, Get In My Vagina
I've posted this Funny or Die video before, but it's never been more relevant. Plus, after the past few weeks, I think it's necessary for the sake of our mental health to inject a little humor into th...
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Orthodox Judaism and the LGBT+ Community
As well as being a feminist, I am an Orthodox Jew. While I had always been active in gay rights advocacy through my feminism, I never really thought about how Orthodox individuals who are LGBT+ grappl...
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Saturday Vids: Time To Evolve
Learn more about Hudson Taylor's organization, Athlete Ally, which is "a resource to encourage athletes, coaches, parents, fans and other members of the sports community to respect all individuals i...
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Saturday Vids: No Joke. Choice Matters. Everywhere.
The folks over at Pathfinder, a great reproductive health organization, recently launched No Joke. #ChoiceMatters. Everywhere., a campaign to raise awareness about international reproductive health ca...
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Saturday Vids: My Body...Finally
I love to see women who are comfortable and confident in their skin despite being a different size or shape than what our society markets as the ideal. I love seeing a woman who doesn’t lose her confi...
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Straw Feminism
I recently came across the concept of "Straw Feminism." Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency defines the Straw feminist as “a trope that is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a femini...
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Saturday Vids: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on Women Entrepreneurs
"Gayle Tzemach Lemmon never set out to write about women entrepreneurs. She was simply looking for a great—and underreported—economics story after leaving ABC News for MBA study at Harvard to pursue h...
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Saturday Vids: Mallika Dutt -- The "War On Women" Is Bigger Than You Think
"As the Supreme Court considers key elements of Arizona’s SB 1070 law, which legalizes racial profiling of and blatant discrimination against immigrant communities and people of color, stories from ar...
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Saturday Vids: The Invisible War
"From Oscar®- and Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated; Twist of Faith) comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most sham...
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Saturday Vids: TrueCar Racing
"TrueCar is empowering high-potential women aspiring to become championship race car drivers by providing full sponsorship support, professional coaching and training, marketing exposure, and top-tier...
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Saturday Vids: Miley Cyrus on The Conversation
I'm not going to pretend like I haven't been critical of Miley Cyrus / the Disney machine in the past. But I was recently watching an interview with Miley Cyrus on an episode of The Conversation, and...
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The Freedom of Having Your Own Space and Your Own Income
The issues that Courtney Martin expresses in her article, “‘You Are the NOW of Now!’ The Future of (Online) Feminism”, are closely related to Virginia Woolf’s own theories in her book, A Room of One’s...
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Women In The Kitchen: The Surprising Reality
Over the past several months, I’ve begun to watch competitive cooking shows obsessively. I mean, I don’t really know how to turn on my own oven and have never cooked anything in my life, but watching ...
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Saturday Vids: The Truth with Hasan Minhaj
The best take on Ashton Kutcher's racist Popchips commercial I've seen yet.
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Why Does Exceptionally Smart = Crazy On TV?
Now, before launching into this, let me make one thing clear: I love the TV show Bones and have for a long time. I also kind of like Rizzoli & Isles, but there’s one thing that’s been irking me ab...
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Saturday Vids: Clinton Foundation - Celebrity Division
Kristen Wiig is in this video. That's really enough.
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division from President Bill Clinton ...
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Saturday Vids: The Conversation
The Conversation, hosted by Amanda de Cadenet, premiered on Lifetime this past Thursday. If you watched it I would love to hear your feedback, and if you haven't check out the Conversation's page on L...
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Saturday Vids: Nineteen Percent on The Erosion of Roe v. Wade
This video is a few months old but I stumbled across it recently and think it's still (always) very relevant, and a good review of where we were on the reproductive rights debate in 2011. Also, I love...
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Saturday Vids: What Else Were You Expecting?
Upon my first viewing, I had a visceral reaction to this film, finding the violence against women repulsive. But I think I misinterpreted it. After a second viewing, I realized its true message -- t...
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Saturday Vids: Health Has No Borders - Global Birth Control Access
To sign Planned Parenthood's "Health Has No Borders" petition click here
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Saturday Vids: Hillary Clinton's Greatest Moments
“'Let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.' So said Hillary Clinton before the 1995 U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing. Since then, Clinton has led a crusade...