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What We Missed.

Jay Leno’s oral sex joke about Christine O’Donnell is really not that funny. Take action at Name it Change it.

On the “science” of sexism.

Sarah Palin is still claiming that health care reform will expand access to abortion. Dana Goldstein on why she is wrong.

amanda hess on ‘sum pussie,’ energy drink. For real.

A must-read piece on how the civil rights movement obscured violence against women.

Jay Leno’s oral sex joke about Christine O’Donnell is really not that funny. Take action at Name it Change it.

On the “science” of sexism.

Sarah Palin is still claiming that health care reform will ...

Cardio Confessions and Revved Up Reflections on Domestic Violence

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month we have a guest post from Rachel Griffin who you can learn more about from her Feministing Five interview. Rachel Alicia Griffin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

I confess. I am an academic scholar who reads “trashy” magazines and by “trashy” I mean the tasty non-academic and deliciously saturated ones with the latest fashion trends, celebrity gossip, and the occasional real-life read.  Sometimes my trashy treats are Cosmo or In Style but I am seduced the most by People. With the arrival of Domestic Violence Awareness month, I felt beckoned to return to a hard moment that involved me, a treadmill, ...

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month we have a guest post from Rachel Griffin who you can learn more about from her Feministing Five interview. Rachel Alicia Griffin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the ...

The Means to Speak for Themselves: Sex Workers in India Respond to Flawed “Prostitutes of God” Film

“In the age of the internet, women in countries far away who used to be the objects of white people’s gaze with no right of reply now have access to the representations that are made of them, and the technological means to answer back.”

-Statement by VAMP, part of the Indian organization SANGRAM, a grassroots organization working with sex workers and other diverse populations and communities to fight HIV/AIDS in a rural context.

A recent controversy over a 30 minute documentary called “Prostitutes of God”, produced by VBS TV, an arm of Vice Magazine (a publication that already has a controversial history of covering race), demonstrates that the-times-they-are a-changin when it comes to transnational activism, especially as it relates to feminism, media, and ...

“In the age of the internet, women in countries far away who used to be the objects of white people’s gaze with no right of reply now have access to the representations that are made of them, ...

borntoride

Fight Choice. Cause Babies Are “Born To Ride”

Had to share this gem of a billboard spotted while riding through north Brooklyn with Audacia Ray over the weekend. Just so yall know, women shouldn’t have autonomy over their own bodies because some tiny babies were born 2 ride motorcycles. Duh! Vroom Vrooom!

Had to share this gem of a billboard spotted while riding through north Brooklyn with Audacia Ray over the weekend. Just so yall know, women shouldn’t have autonomy over their own bodies because some ...

Say Whaaa? US Senator: “Gay People and Unmarried Mothers Shouldn’t Teach”

Last week, Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), reiterated his belief, first spouted in 2004, that openly gay people and unmarried straight women who are sexually active shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools. DeMint made the remarks during a 45-minute speech at the Greater Freedom Rally in his home state regarding a range of issues.

According to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who’s sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn’t be in the classroom.”

This is not the first time the junior Senator has made incredibly homophobic and hateful comments. In 2009 he told Bloomberg ...

Last week, Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), reiterated his belief, first spouted in 2004, that openly gay people and unmarried straight women who are sexually active shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools. DeMint ...

What We Missed

Unapologetic fat people, removed from your TV

This photo is a fair representation of how I’m feeling about ABC Family’s announcement that it has canceled Huge, the teen drama set at a weight loss camp that surpassed my cautiously high expectations. The network has announced that the show, which stars Nikki Blonsky and a cast of unknowns as teens struggling with all the things teenagers usually struggle with, because being fat doesn’t make you any less of a human being, will not be returning for a second season. Which breaks my heart, because Huge, while it wasn’t perfect, broke some important barriers. As Dodai Stewart at Jezebel writes, there are no spaces on television where fat people are allowed to just be people who ...

This photo is a fair representation of how I’m feeling about ABC Family’s announcement that it has canceled Huge, the teen drama set at a weight loss camp that surpassed my cautiously high expectations. The ...

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