2013 December Archive

The Best of 2013: The Feministing crew’s favorites (Part 2)

To close out 2013, we’re showcasing our favorite feminist content from the past year. Today, we’re continuing with the Feministing crew’s personal “best of’s” here on this site and elsewhere in the blogosphere. Check out Part 1 in the series here, as well as Feministing’s top ten most-read posts of 2013. And add your own picks in the comments!

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Best example of the collective brilliance of Feministing

“Feministing Chat: Individualism, violence, and victim blaming” by the Feministing crew

Every day I’m in awe of the depth of talent and brilliance on the Feministing roster, and this dialogue unpacking the dangers of individual feminism, capitalism, victim blaming, and gender based violence ...

By Feministing • 10 years ago

The Best of 2013: The Feministing crew’s favorites (Part 1)

As part of our 2013 recap, we’ve already highlighted the top ten most-read posts on Feministing. But some of our favorite posts of the year aren’t the most highly trafficked ones. Often the most powerful or inspiring or thought-provoking pieces of writing are those that strike a very personal nerve. So we asked the entire Feministing crew to highlight their greatest hits of the year–both posts by their fellow Feministing writers and from elsewhere on the internet. Here are some of their faves. (Check back tomorrow and the next day for Part 2 and 3–there’s so much wonderful feminist content to revisit from this year!)

As part of our 2013 recap, we’ve already highlighted the top ten most-read posts on Feministing. But some of our favorite posts of the year aren’t the most highly trafficked ones. Often ...

By Courtney Baxter • 10 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

More reasons to love Beyonce.

On January 1st, gay youth will now be allowed to be boy scouts, but can we really call it progress?

#RealTalk on sex work: “Sex-positive feminists might party all night with the ‘sluts,’ but some folks couldn’t abide the ‘whores’ from the other side of privilege town.”

On race, skin color, self-acceptance, and mentorship.

Trymaine Lee on how poor, black and brown children are bearing the brunt of school closures and failing education systems.

On the relationship between creativity and poverty: “New York – and San Francisco, London, Paris and other cities where cost of living has skyrocketed are…’the vast gated communities where the one percent reproduces itself’.”

More reasons to love Beyonce.

On January 1st, gay youth will now be allowed to be boy scouts, but can we really call it progress?

#RealTalk on sex work: “Sex-positive feminists might party ...

By Feministing • 10 years ago

2013 Recap: The most popular Feministing posts of the year (Part 2)

To close out 2013, we’re showcasing our favorite feminist content from the past year, starting with the most-read posts on Feministing. Yesterday, we brought you #10 through #6, and today we’re back with the top five.

Check them out and let us know what other posts you think should have made the list!

By Feministing • 10 years ago

2013 Recap: The most popular Feministing posts of the year (Part 1)

It’s been a big year for all of us here at Feministing. We brought on some amazing new contributors, said farewell to our dear former Executive Editor Samhita, got a trio of new Executive Directors, and launched a big Kickstarter fundraising campaign, which–thanks to your support–was super successful. And through it all, we did some pretty great blogging if we do say so ourselves.

2014 promises to be even more exciting, and we can’t wait to get back to regular posting after the New Year. But first, we’ll be running a series of end-of-year roundups of our favorite feminist writing of 2013–both on our corner of the interwebs and beyond. First up, today and ...

It’s been a big year for all of us here at Feministing. We brought on some amazing new contributors, said farewell to our dear former Executive Editor Samhita, got a trio of ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Boy Scouts deliver pizza to county workers skipping their lunch break to keep processing gay marriage licenses.

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina says that in Russian prison she endured forced gynecological exams almost every day for three weeks.

A Canadian study found that Millennial women face an “unconscious bias” in the workplace.

The three best and worst moments for women’s economic status in 2013.

Ten women The Advocate could have picked for person of the year over the Pope.

An Alabama man convicted of raping a teenage girl will again avoid prison despite being re-sentenced following a public outcry.

Alexandra talks Beyonce and feminism at Good Girl Radio.

We’re taking tomorrow off and will be back on Thursday ...

Boy Scouts deliver pizza to county workers skipping their lunch break to keep processing gay marriage licenses.

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina says that in Russian prison she endured forced gynecological exams almost every day for ...

By Katie Halper • 10 years ago

Britain posthumously pardons scientist it chemically castrated

Alan Turing was a genius, a brilliant mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He helped crack the Enigma Code used by Nazis and, many historians argue, is responsible for shortening World War Two by two years, saving countless lives and ensuring victory for the Allies. So, why was this man, who should have been hailed as a hero, disgraced and sentenced to chemical castration?

By Sam Huber • 10 years ago

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

At conferences, colloquia, open meetings, we’ve seen them: older, intent, perhaps a bit disappointed, perhaps exhausted from years of movement work of which we are not aware because we do not ask, but often eager, often a bit giddy, it seems, to be there, as if granted unexpected permission. These, our feminist forebears, perhaps even expressing their gratitude for the intergenerational dialog that’s happened this evening—hear the implied finally. Or maybe they have been our teachers, our editors, or even (lucky us) our employers; too rarely are they our peers, our collaborators, our friends.

Wherever we meet them, as young feminists we don’t often do a good enough job of thanking them, of appreciating their work openly and earnestly without ...