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Lori wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 4 days, 21 hours ago · View
https://twitter.com/feministtswift/status/344796447402782720 Feminist Taylor Swift is amazing #ff #tgif The Social Security Administration has made it clearer and easier for trans people to update the gender designation in Social Security records. A persuasive take on why Trent Franks may actually be worse than Todd Akin. Relatedly, here are seven of the most outrageous GOP explanations for why rape victims can’t [...]
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Lori commented on the blog post Amazing Cheerio’s ad parody features interracial queer couple, says fuck the haters 5 days, 1 hour ago · View
Thanks a lot!
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Lori wrote a new blog post: Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Senior Male Athletes at Phillips Andover 5 days, 1 hour ago · View
Phillips Academy Andover, more commonly known as Phillips Andover, is a prestigious and highly selective boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts whose students are known more for the high acceptance rates to elite and ivy-league universities they enjoy than for feminist activism. The high school’s Wikipedia page (yes, it has a long and elaborate one , having been established [...] -
Lori wrote a new blog post: Amazing Cheerio’s ad parody features interracial queer couple, says fuck the haters 5 days, 2 hours ago · View
A queer Cheerio’s ad parody is like a blogger’s dream, if for the puns alone. I am therefore happy to call for three “queers” at the emergence of this gem, posted yesterday by Kenji America: http://youtu.be/gwReRl4Z7EQ The video closely follows the script of the original Cheerio’s ad , which you may remember pissed off a lot of people for [...]
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Jos wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 week ago · View
Activists Verónica Bayetti Flores, long time friend of the blog and recent writer here, and Marco Galaviz on being arrested today protesting for the New York State Dream Act. A study finds female politicians are stereotyped , but in different ways than the stereotypes of women as a group. More on E3′s sexism: Anita Sarkeesian tweeted that none of [...]
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Jos wrote a new blog post: On trans issues within feminism and strengthening the movement’s gender analysis 1 week ago · View
I’ve taken some time away from blogging while I’ve been in grad school, and it’s given me an opportunity for some perspective on the feminist blogosphere. I started working at Feministing in 2009 with a goal of centering trans issues within feminism. I think the oppression trans folks face, particularly the extreme marginalization and violence aimed at trans [...]
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Jos wrote a new blog post: Guy texts unsolicited dick pic, woman sends it to his mother, wins 1 week ago · View
Trevor, who is really good at flirting, likes to get women’s attention by flashing them: The woman Trevor texted this time was not having it, though. Trevor doesn’t see the big deal, and starts insulting this woman he’s apparently trying to hit on. The conclusion of their conversation is after the jump – for the full [...] -
Jos wrote a new blog post: Tech and video game industry sexism: bathroom lines and rape jokes 1 week, 1 day ago · View
Apple and Microsoft are both currently throwing big conferences, one for tech industry developers and one to sell video games. The conferences of these two giant companies are giving us an eye into some common-place sexism. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is currently taking place in San Francisco. Yesterday Dan Ackerman tweeted this photo from the conference, which [...] -
Jos wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 week, 6 days ago · View
Zerlina was on MSBNC talking about the military sexual assault hearings and the always classy Senator Chambliss. A federal appeals court judge said , “Racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime.” A new report highlights police hostility towards trans women of color. So this thing with Michelle Obama and a GetEqual heckler happened. We’ll have more on this story [...]
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Jos wrote a new blog post: Breaking: Appeals court allows over the counter access to some but not all emergency contraception 1 week, 6 days ago · View
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today granted the Obama administration a stay on access to one-pill forms of emergency contraception. But the court also ruled that two-pill variants should be available over the counter immediately and without harsh age restrictions. So Judge Korman’s important ruling that EC should be available over the counter should at [...]
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Jos wrote a new blog post: Truth Takes Time – a QueerFemme Translady Story 1 week, 6 days ago · View
This animated short tells the story of a young trans girl who other people won’t let be a girl, and her journey to living on her own terms. A warning that it’s a tear jerker – Ellie Krnich’s picture book animation style brings me right back to childhood. The short is a personal, intimate story that [...] -
Jos wrote a new blog post: Truth Takes Time – a QueerFemme Translady Story 1 week, 6 days ago · View
This animated short tells the story of a young trans girl who other people won’t let be a girl, and her journey to living on her own terms. A warning that it’s a tear jerker – Ellie Krnich’s picture book animation style brings me right back to childhood. The short is a personal, intimate story that [...] -
Jos wrote a new blog post: Much Ado About Slut Shaming 2 weeks ago · View
Hero and her father Leonato having fun at a party, before he wishes her dead I’m a nerd for both Shakespeare and Joss Whedon’s writing, so I’ve been super excited for Whedon’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing , which opens this weekend in New York, LA, and San Francisco. I’m a big fan of the play, [...] -
Lori wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 4 weeks ago · View
Women, Action, and the Media (WAM!) is organizing its first-ever social media initiative today around content promoting gender-based hate on Facebook, targeting companies like Dove, American Express, and Audible.com. Read the Open Letter to Facebook and visit the WAM website for more information. Judging from the responses from advertisers, the campaign is already a huge success.
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Lori wrote a new blog post: Waiting for a revolution: Tackling homophobia in Cuba and beyond 1 month ago · View
Ed note: This is a guest post by Kelly Castagnaro, Communications Director at the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) . Only days before today, the International Day against Homophobia , a Russian man was beaten, mutilated, and murdered after revealing he was gay to two strangers. His death reminded me of the many other deaths and injustices that occur [...]
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Lori wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 month ago · View
Photo via Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central NC. In North Carolina, lawmakers are pushing a bill that would allow any boss to decide if employees can access affordable birth control, rolling back the clock on decades of progress. So women’s health advocates showed up to protest the bill dressed in retro attire. Their mantra? “We [...] -
Lori wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Minnesota resident Julie Vidna holds a sign in support of same-sex marriage outside the MN House chamber. (MPR Photo/Jennifer Simonson). The Minnesota House has just approved gay marriage ! View more amazing photos of the day’s events here. Ariel Castro has been charged in the horrific rape and kidnapping case in Cleveland. It’s a busy week for Canadian feminism: [...] -
Lori wrote a new blog post: Guttmacher Institute: Many people find it difficult to pay for an abortion procedure, are unable to use insurance 1 month, 1 week ago · View
The Guttmacher Institute has published a new study on payment for abortion care among U.S. women showing that as much as *half* of all abortion patients rely on assistance to cover the costs. Among the most disturbing and frustrating findings is that many women who are covered by insurance are not able to use the insurance, [...]
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Lori commented on the blog post Pedagogy of the Undressed: Come on in! Entering through the back door 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Thanks for raising this JT. Glad you find the info useful. We will definitely consider this!
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Lori wrote a new blog post: Coverflip challenge reimagines famous dude book covers as by and for women 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Coverflip created by Hannah Yesterday author Maureen Johnson, fed up with sexist responses to the perceived gender appeal of her books covers, issued a challenge to her followers. She writes:
You are informed about a book’s perceived quality through a number of ways. Probably the biggest is the cover…. And the simple fact of the matter is, if [...]
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