It was almost exactly five years ago that I wrote my first guest post for Feministing . About a year later, Jessica and the crew asked me to join as an Editor, and it’s been an absolutely amazing ride ever since. I can’t really put into words my gratitude for what this community has brought me. Showing [...]

By Silpa Kovvali History will rightly view Bridesmaids as an important milestone in more ways than one. It was a female-driven comedy. It was a box office hit. And despite the ensemble of women at its center, its raunchy humor was characteristic of producer Judd Apatow. But as director Paul Feig suggested, Apatow-esque vulgarity is important for the [...]

Via Andee Cornell on Facebook. Crunk Feminist Collective , Quirky Black Girls and FAAN Mail have launched a Feminist Care Packages project. Love this:

Feminist Care Packages are public offerings for healing and justice, invitations to survivors, perpetrators, and community to create a new narrative for the world we want. They include a letter to the person and a list of [...]

I’ve written about Cris Beam’s books before. Her last book, I Am J , was a young adult novel featuring a young Puerto-Rican trans character. Cris’s new book is actually a release from a new publishing company that is putting its eggs all into the digital basket. The Atavist , has created a new publishing platform specifically for ipad [...]

Chloe talks about her year in rom com land over at Jezebel. A new collection of love poems by queer and trans poets called Glitter Tongue just launched. Over at the Nation, Katie remembers Dr. Stephen Levin , an activist and doctor. I’m interviewing lesbian fiction author Ellis Avery about her new book, The Last Nude , at Greenlight Books in [...]

Perhaps no surprise to anyone here that the two Senators also happen to be women. May I conjecture that being able to get pregnant makes you more sympathetic to the case for birth control access?

Sens. Olympia Snowe (ME) and Susan Collins (ME) — both of whom have sponsored legislation  requiring insurers to offer contraception benefits in [...]

So obviously it’s Valentine’s Day. You’d have to be hiding in a cave, with no access to media or facebook, to be able to avoid it. And if you were in said cave, you wouldn’t be reading my blog post. Anyways, it’s Valentine’s Day and there is a lot to be said about the many many [...]

Today is Black HIV/AIDs Awareness Day. A good article about what’s behind the HIV/AIDs epidemic in the Black community. Some advice from Jezebel about preparing for a pelvic exam if you’re a sexual assault survivor. Republican Congressman thinks Onion story about Planned Parenthood is true . An article in the Yale Daily News covering my event where I talked about my experiences [...]

“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California,” the court said. The ruling upheld a decision by retired Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who struck down the ballot measure in 2010 after holding an unprecedented trial on the [...]

From the AP :

An executive with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood. The resignation came in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel (HAN’-duhl) announced her resignation as vice president for public policy in a letter to Komen officials Tuesday. Handel said [...]

Last week, the young undocumented woman pictured above, Yanelli Hernandez, was deported to Mexico. Her community rose up to fight the deportation, in light of the news that Yanelli was at risk of suicide (having one failed attempt) and that deportation put her mental health at serious risk. Despite the response in support of Yanelli, [...]

Pfizer recalled one million packages of birth control due to too low doses of hormone in the packages. Image of Iggy Pop via SlutWalk Toronto’s facebook page . Melissa Harris-Perry’s new MSNBC show , which will be self-titled, premieres on Sunday February 18th. “Seven LGBT African-Americans who changed the face of the gay community ” by Queerty. The Canadian Institute of Health Research [...]

The 2012 election season is now in full swing, and not just for the Presidential race. New York Democratic Senator Kristen Gillibrand was facing a challenge from Marc Cenedella, a Republican and founder of Ladders.com. He just pulled out of the race, according to New York Magazine :

Cenedella’s pulling out in the wake of an  Times article that [...]

Sad news for fans of women’s soccer today. After ongoing legal and financial troubles, the WPS announced that it will skip the 2012 season in an attempt to resolve the challenges and come back stronger in 2013. Maya wrote about these challenges over at Mother Jones in December , when the WPS narrowly avoided a shutdown. It’s obvious [...]

It’s February, and with that annual marker comes Black History Month . It’s such an important moment when the history of an entire community gets elevated, but also such a frustrating reminder of how every other month is white history month. When will get past this kind of marginalization? Despite this, it is good to be reminded [...]