Weekly Feminist Reader


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Today is the 36th birthday of the Hyde Amendment. As Jessica Arons writes, “It is always easiest to go after the rights of the most vulnerable first.”

Whoopi Goldberg goes off after Ann Coulter tries to tell her about black people.

Hannah Tennant-Moore places How Should A Person Be? within a “recent spate of memoirs and autobiographical novels that treat female desire for sexual submission as a kind of titillating depravity.”

Jill Filipovic makes the moral case for sex before marriage.

“I am a job creator and I am entitled.”

Sady has a powerful essay on being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Stephanie Coontz thoroughly debunks the myth of male decline and discusses the “masculine mystique.”

A new study ...


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Today is the 36th birthday of the Hyde Amendment. As Jessica Arons writes, “It is always easiest to go after the rights of the most vulnerable first.”

Whoopi Goldberg goes off after Ann Coulter ...

The Feministing Five: Eryn Mathewson

Eryn Mathewson is a producer for the Women’s Magazine program on the listener-sponsored KPFA 94.1 radio station in Berkeley, CA. Women’s Magazine is a weekly hour of programming devoted to womanist and feminist perspectives on news and culture. Some of their recent episodes discuss the state of the Syrian uprising and women’s role in the revolution, the feminist merits of Occupy, and the prosecution of Pussy Riot.

Women’s Magazine plays a vital role in the dissemination of feminist news and information.  They go beyond sound bytes and provide much-needed feminist analyses to the issues of the day. Not to mention, it’s a completely volunteer-led radio program, which goes to show you how much time, dedication ...

Eryn Mathewson is a producer for the Women’s Magazine program on the listener-sponsored KPFA 94.1 radio station in Berkeley, CA. Women’s Magazine is a weekly hour of programming devoted to womanist and feminist perspectives ...

What we missed

Facebook will not remove a page called “12 year old slut meme.” Charming, really.

A cool new site documents how often we use homophobic language without thinking (hint: it’s a lot).

Steph Herold analyzes some interesting but complex findings re: abortion attitudes among low income women.

Check out these awesome father-daughter portraits on Buzzfeed, cause aw!

 

Facebook will not remove a page called “12 year old slut meme.” Charming, really.

A cool new site documents how often we use homophobic language without thinking (hint: it’s a lot).

Steph Herold analyzes some interesting ...

The Academic Feminist: Virginia Eubanks on Feminism, Technology, and Activism

Welcome back, Academic Feminists! This month’s interview features
Virginia Eubanks, who teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Virginia is the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age, and the cofounder of two grassroots community organizations focused on making technology serve social and economic justice: Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare (OKOP) and the Popular Technology Workshops.  

Virginia shared some of the inspiration for her interest in feminism and technology, how participatory action research led her to better understand women’s technology issues, and some of the projects she’s currently working on. ...

Welcome back, Academic Feminists! This month’s interview features
Virginia Eubanks, who teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Virginia is the author of

Phoenix Mayor finds out first hand that it’s hard to eat well off of food stamps

The mayor of Phoenix was asked to live on a foodstamp budget for one week in honor of Hunger Awareness Month. He did, but found after 4 days he was “hungry and tired.”

He writes in his journal,

OK- ran out the door today with no time to scramble eggs or even make a sandwich. So I’m surviving on an apple and handful of peanuts, and the coffee I took to the office until dinner. I’m tired, and it’s hard to focus. I can’t go buy a sandwich because that would be cheating- even the dollar menu at Taco Bell is cheating. You can’t use SNAP benefits at any restaurants, fast food or otherwise. I’m facing a long, hungry day and an ...

The mayor of Phoenix was asked to live on a foodstamp budget for one week in honor of Hunger Awareness Month. He did, but found after 4 days he was “hungry and tired.”

He writes in his journal,

OK- ...

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A Sikh woman does not apologize for her appearance and everyone learns something

This is amazing. Reddit user “european_douchebag” snapped and posted a pic of a Sikh woman in an airport for LOLz. What was so funny about the picture? The woman in it, Balpreet Kaur, has facial hair and she is not ashamed of it. If anything, she believes this is an expression of her faith.

Sent to her by friends, Kaur replies to the initial post on Reddit, 

Hey, guys. This is Balpreet Kaur, the girl from the picture. I actually didn’t know about this until one of my friends told on facebook. If the OP wanted a picture, they could have just asked and I could have smiled However, I’m not embarrased or even humiliated by the attention [negative ...

This is amazing. Reddit user “european_douchebag” snapped and posted a pic of a Sikh woman in an airport for LOLz. What was so funny about the picture? The woman in it, Balpreet Kaur, has facial hair and ...

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Anne Marie Slaughter: I wrote this article as the next step towards equality

Anne Marie Slaughter is, of course, the author of that now famous (or infamous, depending who you talk to) article  “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” published in the Atlantic a few months ago to great hullabaloo.

If you’re a follower of online feminism, you’re most likely familiar with the conversation around the article. It dominated conversations both online and off for weeks, sparking debate and dialogue about a number of issues including work-life balance, maternity and paternity leave, privilege in feminism, and the direction of our movement for equality. If you need a refresher, you can read a roundup of responses to the article here.

This weekend I attended the Women in Enterprise Symposium, where I was ...

Anne Marie Slaughter is, of course, the author of that now famous (or infamous, depending who you talk to) article  “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” published in the Atlantic a few months ago to ...

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