Tag Archives: Bad-Ass Women
Bad-Ass Woman of the Day: Nina Turner
TweetOhio State Senator Nina Turner is one bad-ass lady. Turner introduced Senate bill 307 that requires men who want a prescription for viagra to go see a sex therapist, get a cardiac stress test, and to get a signed affidavit from their sexual partner. Here, she insists that her bill is just as serious as [...]
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Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue
Tweet I am ridiculously excited to announce that I’ll be participating in this year’s Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue. Here’s the info about the show: Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis women are allies to each other [...]
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Melissa Harris-Perry Show kicks off this past weekend, Chloe rocks the mic
TweetI think the last time I was this excited to get up on a weekend was for Saturday morning cartoons back in ’87 (Gummi Bears, anyone?). Seriously though, I don’t doubt that every feminist in America was freaking over this past weekend’s debut of Melissa Harris-Perry’s new show on MSNBC, which was — not surprisingly [...]
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Afghan woman to box in summer Olympics
Tweet I love it when young women confound society’s expectations. I love it when they do it by being bold and bad-ass. I especially love it when they are 17 years old. Afghan boxer (yes, you read that correctly, boxer) Sadaf Rahimi will be representing Afghanistan in the women’s boxing competition at the London Olympics [...]
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Adrienne Rich: groundbreaking, author, poet and feminist dies at 82