By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 12 years ago

What We Missed

A new report describes just how bad the sexism is in British media. It’s really freaking bad.

Moms in Texas staged a nurse-in at a Target after a woman was threatened with a ticket for breastfeeding in the store.

In the alternate universe where Newt Gingrich is a viable candidate for anything, he would ban abortion even in the case of rape or incest.

And finally, because every day should end with furry marsupials, friend of the site Anna Holmes just got back from Australia, where she visited a wombat orphanage. Yeah, you read that right, a wombat orphanage. Enjoy.

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Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia.

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