Our impact paper, #femfuture: Online Revolution, goes public today! Share our first infographic (one of many visuals which will be shared from our Facebook page), engage on Twitter, and let’s do this thing. Click here for a text version of the infographic.

Remember that impact paper I mentioned in my retirement post that I’m co-authoring with fellow Editor Emerita Courtney about online feminism ? Well, we’re just about ready to unveil it to the world. On Monday, April 8th, we’ll be releasing the paper online (along with some awesome visuals via Megan Jett — a sneak peak above) and celebrating its launch [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MNhCvM5pjfs See version with transcript here. Purity Balls ain’t got nothing on this father-daughter dance. At TEDxWomen this year, Courtney and I had the pleasure of working with an extraordinary group of women whom we coached for a session we also curated, “The Mirror.”  And one of these extraordinary women was Angela Patton, whose work with young girls at [...]

It’s been a wild 9 years, y’all. Yep, this marks my last official post as the managing editor of Feministing. It’s pretty bittersweet–as a co-founder, I’ve literally grown up alongside this project. But there are many reasons why I’m leaving happily: I think it’s time to pass on leadership to the other younger, brilliant minds in [...]

On the struggles of prisoners with disabilities in California. Check out Chloe on  Melissa Harris-Parry this weekend talking affirmative action, merit and entitlement. What kind of world do we live in when a 14 year old girl gets shot in the head for educational activism? Sandusky was sentenced today . Sesame Street is so over this presidential race . And Zerlina talks veep debate  on Fox [...]

http://youtu.be/OrEXHISleAc My inner fangirl is totally squealing like a 5-year old right now. Draw The Line , this new campaign for a Bill for Reproductive Rights is pretty awesome, and much-needed. And I appreciate the seemingly-alarmist-but-actually-totally-real “what’s at stake” feel the campaign has, considering how friggin’ bad things already are. With 55% of women of reproductive age live in [...]

  There are 5 trillion reasons why you should be registering to vote today, but this should really be wake-up call to why: Because others are trying their damnedest — and possibly criminally — to make sure those rights aren’t exercised. It’s true that voter suppression tactics are not new and it’s been a huge issue around [...]

Got laid last night. #sorryfeminists

We can’t be too surprised that this brilliance was the brainchild of our own Editor Emeriti Ann Friedman. Why? Because tired-ass feminist stereotypes are apparently still around for much-needed busting. (A quick backstory of its creation here.)

Werk it, girl.

The Telegraph’s new (White) Wonder Women section  makes us feel icky like when the Washington Post launched their She The People blog. Matthew Yglesias on the economics gender gap.  Apparently, Feminism isn’t allowed to be funny and informative . Also, funny is unladylike. Spit out your gum. WTF? A Brooklyn abortion clinic is closing its doors . Also, today in excessive force from [...]

Wow. It looks like the furniture giant IKEA thought it would be within their best interest that for their catalogue in Saudi Arabia, women should be removed from the picture – literally.

Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets. Comparing the Swedish and Saudi [...]

Ai Jen Poo and other organizers from the National Domestic Workers Alliance.  Because ensuring meal breaks are apparently too much to ask for. AP reports:

Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday announced that he had vetoed legislation that would have provided overtime pay, meal breaks and other labor protections to an estimated 200,000 caregivers, nannies and house cleaners in [...]

The hunt for male birth control continues –but we’re not holding our breath. The amazing Ileana Jiménez and other feminist teachers/bloggers talk to Ms. Magazine about education and feminism. An Illinois court upheld a ruling allowing pharmacists with religious objections to refuse to dispense emergency contraception . Andrea Grimes on being child-free by choice . Obama widens his lead  in Ohio and Florida (the [...]

It’s World Contraception Day, and Guttmacher has come out with a U.S. study finding the obvious, but still necessary to point out: Women take contraception because it makes their lives better.

New evidence confirms what most people already believe: Women use contraception because it allows them to better care for themselves and their families, complete their education [...]

Pam’s House Blend  brought our attention to an overlooked tidbit in All Things Paul Ryan this week; while the media has been all over his “surprising” statement that Republicans need to let go of pursuing a DADT repeal, that didn’t stop him from telling his supporters that marriage equality was totes still on the chopping block. At a town [...]

The Applied Research Center (ARC) celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. Check out their journey and help to  support them for the next 30. Miriam has a great piece over at RH Reality Check on how Travis MacDonald is challenging breastfeeding norms as a transgender father. Hoping La Leche League smartens up about this. The one graph that really [...]

Talk about a serious feminist lovefest. Jezebel founder and WashPo writer Anna Holmes , author and writer Rebecca Traister , and HuffPo Lifestyle editor Lori Leibovich will be joining our Jessica for  a talk at 92YTribeca  tomorrow talking about parenthood and Jess’ new book, Why Have Kids?. * They’ll be discussing about the tons of topics that the book addresses, which has not surprisingly been sparking [...]

In response to this leaked video  you’ve all seen by now of Mitt Romney telling wealthy donors that 47 percent of the country won’t take responsibility for their own lives. (And inspired by Ann.) WHEN I WATCHED THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN IMPLODE  WHEN MITT ROMNEY HEARD ABOUT THE VIDEO BEING LEAKED WHEN ROMNEY’S CAMPAIGN STAFF WATCHED HIM SAY NEARLY HALF OF [...]

This is not good, y’all. Kate at Mother Jones gives us the details :

Under pressure from conservative politicians, the Virginia Board of Health voted Friday to reverse an earlier decision that would have protected the state’s existing abortion clinics from strict new regulations. All clinics that provide first-trimester abortions now have two years to modify their facilities [...]

Here are some links about the Chicago teachers strike: MoJo’s got a good explainer . One teacher explains their reasons for striking . Dana Goldstein provides some feminist/labor history . Corey Rubin has some ideas about why people hate teachers unions . The Romney tries (and fails) to make up for their remarks this morning trying to frame Obama as a terrorist “sympathizer.” “A man [...]