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bell hooks and Melissa Harris Perry sat down for a chit chat and it was amazing.

Hollywood’s use of LGBT characters to make a point.

Living up to a code of masculinity in the NFL.

On behalf ...

Happy International Day of the Girl!

I thought I couldn’t love this song any more but apparently that’s only because I hadn’t yet see it paired with images of adorable girls from around the world.

The theme of this second annual UN International Day of the Girl is education. The UN notes,

The fulfilment of girls’ right to education is first and foremost an obligation and moral imperative. There is also overwhelming evidence that girls’ education, especially at the secondary level, is a powerful transformative force for societies and girls themselves: it is the one consistent positive determinant of practically every desired development outcome, from reductions in mortality and fertility, to poverty reduction and equitable growth, to social norm change and democratization.

Important stuff, though I think ...

I thought I couldn’t love this song any more but apparently that’s only because I hadn’t yet see it paired with images of adorable girls from around the world.

The theme of this second annual UN International ...

Three women working towards equality win the Nobel Peace Prize

Pics via NYT. Left to right: Leymah Gbowee, pic by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, pic by Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Tawakul Karman, pic by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

This is pretty friggin’ awesome:

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The three women will share the 2011 award “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work,” Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said in his announcement.

“We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in ...

Pics via NYT. Left to right: Leymah Gbowee, pic by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, pic by Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Tawakul Karman, pic by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters