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Quick Hit: An interview with Kate Zambreno
TweetIt’s worth checking out The New Inquiry‘s interview with Kate Zambreno, author of popular blog Frances Farmer is My Sister and the recently released critical memoir Heroines. She’s got some very precise–and very beautiful–thoughts on “wives and mistresses,” mental illness, fears of female emotional excess, and redeeming the diary. That emotion in a work of literature cannot be excessive, has to [...]
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Quick Hit: Why don’t more American women use IUDs?
TweetY’all already know that I am an IUD evangelist. While more American women are jumping on the bandwagon these days–8.5 percent of female contraception users in the US now choose long-lasting reversible contraceptive methods like the IUD and implant–we still seriously lag behind other countries. At Mother Jones, my colleague Maddie Oatman reports on why [...]
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Quick hit: NYT on VAWA and “scourge of rape” for Native American women
TweetLast Wednesday, House Republicans stooped to a new low by throwing their support behind a ridiculous, callous and watered down version of the Violence Against Women Act. As we detailed last week, the heavily edited H.R. 4970 now moves backward on VAWA reauthorization, with the version that the House passed actually denying protection of undocumented immigrants, [...]
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Justice Ginsburg to female judges: “Dare to disagree”
TweetIt’s no secret that Feministing folks have a bit of a girl crush on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female Supreme Court Justice and the first Jewish woman to serve on the court. In addition to being a remarkable public advocate for women’s rights, she’s been known to speak out against attacks on women’s health, [...]
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Quick hit: Nathaniel Frank on the AP’s misguided ‘homophobia’ ban