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Jameis Winston was promptly suspended from the Florida State University baseball team after getting a citation for stealing $32 worth of crab legs from a grocery store. As you’ll recall, when Winston was accused of rape, “there was virtually no investigation at all, either by the police or the university.”

Today, Senate Republicans voted to block debate on legislation to raise the minimum wage.

Shitty conservatives are calling for a referendum on a new law protecting transgender rights.

Fuck the BART police.

On the so-called “boy crisis”: “The way we teach boys to be men – which means above all else not being like women – has negative repercussions that can and do coexist with male privilege.”

Dee Rees ...

Jameis Winston was promptly suspended from the Florida State University baseball team after getting a citation for stealing $32 worth of crab legs from a grocery store. As you’ll recall, when Winston was accused ...

“For Tennessee lawmakers, punishing pregnant women is more important than protecting fetal life.”

As I mentioned yesterday, Tennessee has officially become the first state in the country to criminalize drug use during pregnancy. The new law, which was signed by the Governor yesterday despite the best efforts of reproductive justice advocates, holds pregnant people criminally liable for harm caused to their fetuses or newborns. 

As I mentioned yesterday, Tennessee has officially become the first state in the country to criminalize drug use during pregnancy. The new law, which was signed by the Governor yesterday despite ...

“Twerk It Girl” examines twerking for autonomy and resistance

Twerk It Girl from Irma L. Garcia on Vimeo.

Everything I’ve ever wanted to say in defense of twerking has been compiled into a 5-minute documentary entitled Twerk It Girl by self-proclaimed “twerk scholar” at the University of Texas Kimari Brand. Utilizing multiple experiences — including a course on performance, feminism and social justice, a trip abroad to study Afro-Caribbean culture and politics, and her experiences as a Black girl at an institution of higher education that prioritizes white supremacist “credibility and status” — Brand has reframed the dialogue about twerking.

Twerk It Girl from Irma L. Garcia on Vimeo.

Everything I’ve ever wanted to say in defense of twerking has been compiled into a 5-minute documentary entitled Twerk It Girl by self-proclaimed “twerk scholar” at ...

Photo of the Day: Nigerians demand the government #BringBackOurGirls

Today, protestors gathered in the Nigerian capitol of Abuja to demand the government do more to rescue the 200 teenage girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago while taking an exam at their school in northeastern Nigeria. Most assume the girls were taken by Boko Haram, a local Islamic extremist group whose name means “western education is forbidden.” As The New Yorker reports, the girls’ “only offense, it seems, was attending school.”

Today, protestors gathered in the Nigerian capitol of Abuja to demand the government do more to rescue the 200 teenage girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago while taking an exam at their school in northeastern Nigeria. ...

Janet Mock flips the script and interrogates a cis journalist on her womanhood

As you know, trans women have been enjoying some pretty exciting mainstream media attention lately. The flipside of this attention is that they’re often forced to educate not only a public that’s still catching up but also the journalists that are giving them a platform. Just recently, we’ve seen Laverne Cox and Carmen Carrera school Katie Couric on how the preoccupation with transition objectifies trans people. And we’ve seen Janet Mock call out Piers Morgan for sensationalizing her story and mis-gendering her on his show.

Now Mock continues her heroic work on this front with this instructive segment with Fusion’s Alicia Menendez. In order to show just how dehumanizing many of the questions journalists regularly ask trans women ...

As you know, trans women have been enjoying some pretty exciting mainstream media attention lately. The flipside of this attention is that they’re often forced to educate not only a public that’s still catching up but ...

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Remember that Tennessee bill that will criminalize pregnancy? Gov. Bill Haslam has signed it into law.

Amy Poheler and Paul Rudd’s new rom com parody looks great.

On the invisible privilege of gaming while male.

You can now read two never-before-published Octavia Butler stories!

Laverne Cox is executive producing a documentary on trans youth for MTV And Logo.

An interview with a historian of American women’s fashion.

A pastor challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary thinks most divorces are caused when wives love their children more than their husbands.

How did Amal Alamuddin snag George Clooney?

Kelly Shibari becomes the first plus-size model featured in Penthouse Forum.

The Department of Education issues a new guidance explicitly clarifying that ...

Remember that Tennessee bill that will criminalize pregnancy? Gov. Bill Haslam has signed it into law.

Amy Poheler and Paul Rudd’s new rom com parody looks great.

On the invisible privilege of gaming while male.

You can ...

Why I am not a monkey

Update: It turns out this was a planned marketing stunt.

Last Sunday during a soccer match between Villareal and Barcelona, a fan threw a banana at the Brazilian Barcelona defender Dani Alves as he went to make a corner kick. Alves has made internet history with his witty response: without missing a beat, he grabbed the banana, took a bite, then jumped right back in the game. Since then, Brazilian Facebook and Twitter have taken off with photos of soccer players, celebrities, and ordinary citizens posing with bananas, accompanied by the hashtag #todossomosmacacos  or “we are all monkeys.”

Unfortunately, taunts about bananas and references to black people as “monkeys” within soccer is embarrassingly common. And for someone from Brazil — where ...

Update: It turns out this was a planned marketing stunt.

Last Sunday during a soccer match between Villareal and Barcelona, a fan threw a banana at the Brazilian Barcelona defender Dani Alves as he went to ...

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