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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 1 day, 3 hours ago · View
The best thing on the internet today.
The worst–a man is deported and while trying to get back to his family dies in the Arizona desert, leaving behind 5 children.
Are men who have stay-at-home wives more sexist in the workplace?
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: Dharun Ravi sentenced to 30 days in prison 2 days, 7 hours ago · View
In a rather lenient sentencing, a New Jersey judge sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail also suggesting that he not be deported. This is a probationary sentence for Ravi, who earlier this year was convicted of bias intimidation and a handful of other hate crimes for bullying his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi. Why did [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: Shorter Priebus: “If Obama wasn’t so black, the GOP wouldn’t have to be so racist.” 2 days, 10 hours ago · View
OK, maybe not exactly what Reince Priebus, RNC chairman, said over the weekend on CNN–but he did essentially blame the Obama administration for calling out a Super PAC plan proposing race-baiting. According to Priebus, the Obama team wants to focus on this instead of the real questions about his leadership at hand. Well, if that is the focus [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: The NAACP votes in support of same-sex marriage 2 days, 12 hours ago · View
The NAACP voted to make the wise decision to join the bandwagon and get on the right side of history by publicly endorsing same-sex marriage. Not only is the right decision for them (because it’s just the right thing to do!), in terms of being an organization committed to advancing the rights of disenfranchised people–but it is [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 5 days, 6 hours ago · View
Maya interviews Lizz Winstead on her new book over at Mother Jones.
Shakesville with more on white fear of brown babies.
Are women underrepresented in HIV research?
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 6 days, 4 hours ago · View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zufp5zVN86I The beautiful and influential queen of disco, Donna Summer passed away today at 63 . Is it really straight marriage that has evolved? Cautionary words from Chloe about how Australia must not follow the US in it’s assault on repro rights. On this week’s Opinionated, Amanda and I talk about that horrible article in the NYTimes about black women and [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: White births have been outnumbered by non-white – now what? 6 days, 6 hours ago · View
(Spotted by my friend Karlos Gauna Schmeider from the Center for Media Justice –two headlines, backwards ideology and the new moment on race in the US) That inevitable moment that conservative Americans have been dreading is finally here. According to census data births of white babies has been surpassed by brown babies. The AP reports that for the first [...] -
Samhita wrote a new blog post: That Awful Moment when the House implicitly endorses violence against women 6 days, 12 hours ago · View
House Republicans have stooped low in their all-out war on women by turning an issue that has never been bipartisan–that violence against women is a bad thing–into a partisan one voting 222-206 in support of a ridiculous, callous and watered down version of the Violence Against Women Act . As Vanessa noted Tuesday, it was slated to [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 2 weeks, 1 day ago · View
The great children’s book author Maurice Sendak has passed away at 83. Here is a great clip of him doing an interview with Stephen Colbert (must watch). And a video of Obama reading Where the Wild Things Are to a group of children at the White House. His stuff mattered. A great piece from Jessica on Adam Yauch’s aka [...] -
Samhita wrote a new blog post: “In the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.” 2 weeks, 1 day ago · View
File under: we can’t make this shit up . Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson believes that the worst thing to happen in modern society is that women were given the right to vote. Additional important information provided by this genius: Women are sluts (Limbaugh was right) and women are now out of control with power, so much power–vaginal [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: Breaking ground in the war on uterus: Kansas also changes tax code to exclude abortion 2 weeks, 1 day ago · View
Vanessa mentioned yesterday that Kansas passed a bill that forces doctors to lie to their patients if they think the treatment they might provide would hurt the health of a fetus. This same bill holds another provision yet to be seen in the fight against abortion– it prohibits patients from deducting the cost of abortion or any [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: North Carolina slated to pass same-sex marriage ban amendment 2 weeks, 1 day ago · View
While the Obama administration continues to flip-flop on the question of same-sex marrage, North Carolina gives us good reminder why we are in desperate need of leaders that take a stand on supporting full rights same-sex couples. North Carolina is slated to vote on an amendment that would essentially ban same-sex marriage along with civil [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 3 weeks, 2 days ago · View
Stephen King says he’ll pay more in taxes and other rich people should too. Dan Savage learned that fighting facts with fiction, or rather, highlighting Christian hypocrisy, makes you a bully. In light of VAWA reauthorization –let’s not forget the role the economy has on domestic violence rates. On the relationship of homophobia and being gay. Those kids that walked out in [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: Texas judge allows Planned Parenthood to be part of state Women’s Health Program 3 weeks, 2 days ago · View
Good news from Texas–a judge in Texas has stopped the state from banning Planned Parenthood from participating in the state’s Women’s Health Program. This means Planned Parenthood will continue to receive much needed state funding to provide health care services to low income women in Texas. The bill was pushed by Republican legislators that were responding to constituents that [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: A New Day in Politics: Complicated conversations about Muslim women’s rights 3 weeks, 2 days ago · View
I have been heartened by the substantive conversation happening in thought leadership publications about the plight of women in predominantly Arab and Muslim nations. Referring to Muslim women as people with desires, agency, needs and destinies is a new direction in how “the West” has ever talked about the real lives of women within these cultural contexts. [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 1 month ago · View
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of HHS has a new report out highlighting significant disparities in access to healthcare for trans people. The study writes, “Too often, policymakers, service providers, the media, and society at large have dismissed or discounted the needs of transgender and gender non-conforming people in their communities, and a paucity of [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: Happy Birthday Maya! 1 month ago · View
Feminist super hero Maya Dusenbery–feeding baby lambs in her down time. This weekend was Feministing contributor Maya’s birthday. Maya is a mega-badass that continues to not only bring the quality feminist content –but she also puts together our Weekly Feminist Reader , manages our social medias , and puts out our newsletter (sign up for it—->). She plays a really important role in keeping Feministing [...] -
Samhita wrote a new blog post: Wisconsin’s Coercive and Web Cam Abortion Prevention Act 1 month ago · View
As we’ve noted before, Scott Walker joined the ranks of some of the countries most anti-choice leaders after signing the Coercive and Web Cam Abortion Prevention Act last month–a bill that restricts the ability for abortion providers to render non-surgical abortions. And a bill that managed to put “web cam” in the title. This bill went into [...]
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: What we missed 1 month ago · View
The chief of ASME responds to the editors of Mojo about the lack of women nominated for awesome journalism.
How to close the wage gap in 7 easy steps.
I love Azealia Banks.
I wrote a piece at the Prospect about trans voices, feminism and Adrienne Rich.
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Samhita wrote a new blog post: Quick Hit: Mississippi’s one abortion clinic may be forced into closure 1 month ago · View
Mississippi only has one abortion clinic, in the whole state, and that clinic is now at threat of being shut down with the signing of what reproductive rights activists call a TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) law. Under these laws, states come up with bogus regulations for clinics to have to meet or they [...]
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