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Maya wrote a new blog post: New Favorite Tumblr: Flip The News 1 day, 1 hour ago · View
Check out Flip The News , a tumblr that flips the gender or race of the subjects in news articles. The site explains, “The point here is to shine some light on the way news organizations write about people and strive for more balanced, respectful narratives.” In one of the first posts, the author gender-flips this Atlantic article [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 day, 17 hours ago · View
Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt was expelled from school and is being charged with a felony for having a lesbian relationship with a fellow student. Another horrible rape documented on social media. (Trigger warning) Great piece by Tamara Winfrey Harris on Beyonce and feminism . The Virginia GOP nominee for AG previously introduced a bill that would have required women who miscarry to report [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Quick Hit: Why do men keep putting me in the girlfriend-zone? 1 day, 23 hours ago · View
I love this brilliant reversal of all the Nice Guy whining about the how terrible the friend-zone is. It really gets to the heart of why I think complaints about the friend-zone are just so obnoxious. Even more than the sense of entitlement–that men are owed sex or a relationship for being “good guys”–it’s the idea that [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 4 days, 17 hours ago · View
Yale is being fined for underreporting sexual assault cases. ” It was exhausting . Exhausting to figure out how to respond to the relentless misogyny from men who are otherwise kind and educated, who would never think of themselves as chauvinist assholes.” Lucy Liu discusses racism in Hollywood . A Michigan school district won’t let two pregnant high schools students [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Weekly Feminist GIF 4 days, 21 hours ago · View
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: It’s National Masturbation Month 4 days, 23 hours ago · View
…and it looks like Rihanna is celebrating too! (Because she’s just the greatest.) I’ve previously shared my thoughts about the importance of masturbation –or, as I like call it, “the longest, most consistently satisfying sexual relationship of my life.” So I won’t bore you again with TMI details. Instead, I’ll just direct you to the awesome folks at the M Blog , [...] -
Chloe wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 6 days, 17 hours ago · View
Kelly Rowland’s new song references being in an abusive relationship.
House Republicans vote for the millionth time to repeal Obamacare.
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Chloe wrote a new blog post: Rebel Wilson, coming to a TV near you 6 days, 22 hours ago · View
I cried when I watched this trailer. Because it makes me cry to watch unapologetically fat, confident women being really good at their jobs, being recognised for it, and making their revolutionary bodies part of that success. It makes me cry like a big feminist baby. http://youtu.be/pg1RtDr-cHE Damn, Rebel Wilson, you make me (even) proud(er) [...]
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Chloe wrote a new blog post: Gee you guys, why do you think sexual violence is so widespread in the US military? 1 week ago · View
Could it be because the people put in charge of preventing it are themselves committing acts of sexual violence? Last week it was the Air Force’s designated sexual violence prevention officer who was arrested for sexual violence . This week it’s the Army’s. From New York magazine: the Army has its own scandal as it investigates a sergeant who [...]
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Chloe wrote a new blog post: Guest post: My old friend Ana 1 week ago · View
**Trigger warning** This is a guest post from an anonymous Feministing reader. You could say I’m a words person. Communications, in all forms, is what I’m good at, it’s what I gravitate towards. I’ll do the crossword puzzle over the Sudoku. Words to me are pieces to play with, tell stories with, pitch clients with. I’ve never [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Marriage equality, you betcha! 1 week, 1 day ago · View
Image via. I’m very proud that my home state of Minnesota is set to become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage and the first Midwestern state to do so without a court order. Yesterday the senate passed the bill, and Gov. Dayton is set to sign into law today. This victory comes right on the heels of marriage equality victories in Rhode [...] -
Maya wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 week, 1 day ago · View
Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. We echo this statement from NARAL : “Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed. We hope that the lessons of the trial do not fade with the verdict. Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Disney gives Brave‘s Merida a princess make-over 1 week, 1 day ago · View
For fuck’s sake. Brave‘s heroine Merida is getting a make-over before she’s officially inducted into the Disney Princess collection. The character’s creator Brenda Chapman, who became the first woman to win an Oscar for an animated feature for the film, said Disney should be ashamed of the decision . “It’s horrible! Merida was created to break that mold — to [...] -
Maya wrote a new blog post: Quote of the Day: “Motherhood and fatherhood are not binaries” 1 week, 1 day ago · View
I really love this piece by Jennifer Finney Boylan , who has spent six years parenting her children as a dad, followed by 12 years as a mom after her transition. I was especially moved by this section:
I understand the reluctance many people have to play down the importance of gender, or for that matter, biology, in parenting; a [...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Chart of the Day: White men are 31% of the population but 58% of evening cable news guests 1 week, 1 day ago · View
Media Matters has a series of depressing charts showing the (lack of) gender and racial diversity on cable news shows. They analyzed 13 evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC during April, though I’d imagine this sad game could be played every month of the year. The charts that show the combined effects of [...] -
Maya wrote a new blog post: “Let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.” 1 week, 1 day ago · View
When photographer Jamie Moore was thinking about marking her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday with a photo shoot, she wanted to get more creative than a set of princess photos. She explains :
It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma [...]
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Chloe wrote a new blog post: Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet 1 week, 4 days ago · View
The North Carolina Senate voted to give a second reading to a bill that requires schools to teach that abortion causes premature birth in subsequent pregnancies. The Obama Administration asked for an extension of the deadline to make Plan B available over the counter without an age restriction. The judge said no. California passes new protections for transgender [...]
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Chloe wrote a new blog post: Two-thirds of Australians say they won’t live to see an Indigenous Prime Minister 1 week, 4 days ago · View
That’s a pretty depressing number. Newspoll just released the finding, and the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) is using it as an opportunity to draw the connection between education and political leadership. Just 50% of Indigenous kids finish high school at the moment, and among kids in AIEF programs, which it calls “Australia’s most proven and [...]
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Chloe wrote a new blog post: Quick hit: Laurie Penny on confronting structural violence 1 week, 4 days ago · View
Laurie Penny has a cracker of a piece in the New Statesman today, in which she takes apart the notion that prosecuting high profile rapists is somehow “persecution” of men who simply didn’t know what they were doing is wrong. She’s writing mostly about Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall in the UK, but the lesson applies anywhere:[...]
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Maya wrote a new blog post: Migration is beautiful. Tell your lawmakers. 1 week, 4 days ago · View
Ed. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. Human beings have been migrating for the entirety of our existence. It’s natural [...] - Load More


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