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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Alice Nkom is Woman of the Year
TweetWhile TIME did pick some pretty awesome ladies for their Person of the Year shortlist, it’s astounding that the magazine hasn’t chosen an individual woman for the grand title since the selection of President Corazon Aquino of the Phillipines in 1986. So Africa is a Country, “the media blog that is not about famine, Bono, [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Hillary Clinton
TweetAided by the Texts From Hillary tumblr–and pushed over the edge when the Secretary herself submitted a text–Hillary Clinton’s image has taken a turn for the cool lately. But as Amanda Marcotte notes at The Prospect, Clinton’s image as a “badass boss lady” isn’t really new–it’s what her fans have always seen and loved in [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Big DREAMers take to the streets
TweetI am constantly amazed and inspired by the courage of the DREAM Activists, and today’s Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah is in honor of all of those brilliant and beautiful young people who refuse to be made invisible. Yesterday, three DREAMers pictured above, Janet Perez, Rosario Quiroz and Sara Martinez, staged a peaceful protest in front of [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Our young feminist readers! Who exist!
TweetEven if USA Today says they don’t! Yesterday, USA Today ran an article about how young women don’t identify as feminists anymore. Feminism, the article claims, is “over the hill.” As Jos wrote in response to that article, there’s nothing new about the “feminism is dead” trend piece: people have been announcing the death of [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: ‘Know Your IX’ campaign to stop sexual violence