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Weekly Feminist Reader

By Alexandra | Published: May 26, 2013

Tweet Bey is on the cover of Ms., giving the feminist blogosphere another month to police her feminism and then yell at itself for this policing. Read Kiera Wilmot’s story in her own words. Advertisers can’t ignore the #FBrape campaign. Prosecuting Ariel Castro for murdering a fetus will endanger pregnant women. Kanye raps against mass [...]

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Christopher Hitchens saw WMDs in Iraq but missed the humor in women

By Katie | Published: December 20, 2011

TweetChristopher Hitchens’s death, much like his life, provoked much discussion and reflection, as well as praise, sorrow, glee, homage-paying, and copious changing of Facebook profile pictures. Since Hitch died last Thursday, several writers have revisited his unwavering support for the Iraq War and his sexism. Hitchens was as insistent and wrong about the absence of humor in women as he was the [...]