What We Missed

Today, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor about the need for more women’s voices in the national conversation about birth control.

Michael Kaufman gives us five reasons why men should control women’s reproduction.

Melissa Harris-Perry’s new show debuts on MSNBC at 10am tomorrow. Jenn Pozner explains why “Melissa Harris-Perry” is an historic media event.

Ann Friedman on what you can do to close the gender byline gap.

In one tiny Australian town, Indigenous suicide rates are crushingly high.

Color of Change has a petition calling on XXL to fire its Editor in Chief after the magazine published comments from rapper Too $hort.

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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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