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Amherst students circulated this ad (for a furniture sale, supposedly) to the entire senior class.

Amherst students circulated this ad (for a furniture sale, supposedly) to the entire senior class.

Mia McKenzie on white liberals, racism, and eroding empathy.

Guilty of rape at Oxy? Write a book report.

Learn about the history of gun control in the U.S.

“Imagine being examined for ‘evidence’ by a doctor and telling your single-parent father that his only son was raped. Imagine hearing that this happened to you because you’re gay.”

Brilliant Republican thinks the phrase “Jew me down on a price” is the best way to express himself.

Guernica on recovering work of women writers.

Ali Safran’s story of building Surviving in Numbers has gone viral.

Obama is hosting female senators for dinner tonight. Can’t wait to hear who he thinks is the best looking.

The 2013 Hillman Prizes have been announced.

Tyler Perry has a rape problem.

Everyday Sexism launches in the U.S.

Infographic: Where are the women directors?

A conversation with a single mom living on $40,000 a year.

Girls “need a way to feel safe without hurting each other.”

70K people, including Cesar Chavez’s son, urge the New York Times to drop the i-word.

Stop Eden Food’s crusade against birth control.

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

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