Tag Archives: Bad-Ass Women

Lesson #4: The revolution will only be funded by the people who want revolution. These people won’t have much money.

TweetEditor’s note: To close out Women’s History Month we are running this series of guest posts from Emily May and Samuel Carter, co-founders of Hollaback, as they reflect on taking an idea and moving it to action, the best practices they have learned along the way and documenting for us that feminist history is happening right now.  One of the magic aspects [...]
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10 things we’ve learned from Vanessa

Tweet As you know, Vanessa Valenti, one of the driving forces behind what has made Feministing so great, left us to fully engage in her robust consulting career and business partnership with Courtney Martin. When people leave Feministing, they generally move on to more kinds of awesome, but Vanessa’s role in shaping this space can’t [...]
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The Feministing Five: Reshma Saujani

Tweet “We live in a society ashamed of failure.” Those are words from Reshma Saujani, who’s fighting to change that norm and leading by example. She’s founder of Girls Who Code, an organization helping girls in low-income neighborhoods succeed in technology and engineering. She was also the first Indian-American woman to run for Congress, with [...]
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Breaking: Ilyse Hogue named next president of NARAL

TweetAn exciting day for the future of reproductive rights activism–Ilyse Hogue, a great thinker, writer and activist has been named the next president of NARAL! Full press release: Washington, D.C.–The boards of directors of NARAL Pro-Choice America and the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation announced today that Ilyse Hogue has been chosen to succeed Nancy Keenan [...]
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Physicist Fabiola Gianotti is the second woman shortlisted for Time’s POY

Tweet I think we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a proper shout-out to the 5th runner up for Time’s Person Of the Year (POY), physicist  Fabiola Gianotti, part of the team that discovered the Higgs Boson particle in July. Remember? Here’s a refresher: According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an [...]
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