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By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A useful infographic on what the Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality will mean in real life.

LinkUp aims to teach girls, not just adult women, about sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Are we still seriously talking about why people hate Anne Hathaway?

Gender-based violence also harms economic development. Duh.

How to create a perfect wife. Whaaaaaaaaat.

Women boost the economy. Double duh.

Arianna Huffington concern-trolls Hillary Clinton.

Two new studies look at how sexism hurts female candidates.

Sex ed in NYC public schools is banned in buildings owned by the Catholic Church.

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Women in the World: The economic argument for empowerment

I spent Friday at the Women in the World Summit in New York, Tina Brown’s love letter to the women and girls (and the occasional man) advocating for equality and progress around the globe. The event, hosted by The Daily Beast/Newsweek, drew 2,500 people to the swanky David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

Two first-name-necessary-only women got standing o’s — Hillary, of course, drew people to their feet with her rousing keynote on women’s rights as human rights. Oprah took the stage with Dr. Tererai Trent to discuss Trent’s incredible journey from child bride to Ph.D. and educator in Zimbabwe. Notably, Trent is as focused on educating boys as she is girls. “When we educate boys, they will so be ...

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Quick Hit: Our Blood and Pain

The artist Molly Crabapple shared her extraordinary personal story on Vice, writing with searing honesty about her abortion. This essay joins a canon of brave and brutal stories. An excerpt:

Compulsively, I searched out abortion stories online. Women for whom it had meant nothing. Women for whom it had meant everything. Most of all, women who were not sorry. I found no information on patching myself up again. For the right, recovery means repentance. For the left, you weren’t supposed to have to recover at all. Abortions were different from miscarriages. Those are tragic. We were bad. If you get an abortion, you haul yourself to work the next day. The world owes you ...

The artist Molly Crabapple shared her extraordinary personal story on Vice, writing with searing honesty about her abortion. This essay joins a canon of brave and brutal stories. An excerpt:

Compulsively, ...

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Breaking: Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, passes away

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the original “Iron Lady,” died of a stroke Monday. She was 87 years old.

Thatcher, a staunch conservative, made history as the first female prime minister of Britain, elected to the position in 1975 after famously stating, while serving as education secretary: “I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.” She served as prime minister for nearly 12 years. Thatcher was the first modern female leader of a major Western nation and is hailed as a woman who “changed the world.”

Her attitude: “I fight on. I fight to win.”

Thatcher is survived by her two children, Mark and Carol Thatcher.

Image via Getty.

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the original “Iron Lady,” died of a stroke Monday. She was 87 years old.

Thatcher, a staunch conservative, made history as the first female prime minister of Britain, elected to the position ...

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Virginia’s Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to reinstate a ban on oral and anal sex.

An awesome mom petitions Mattel for more multicultural Barbie accessories for her daughter.

In defense of being a girly feminist.

The South Wind Women’s Center will open in Wichita, Kan., the first abortion clinic in the city since Dr. George Tiller was gunned down in 2009.

Did Tyler Perry really put a rape scene in his new movie? And not make it about rape?

Inspiration: 125 Women of Impact.

France will provide free abortions, as well as free contraception for teenage girls.

Shakesville on the Fixed State Ally Model versus the Process Model of Ally Work.

Baylor University basketball star Brittney ...

Virginia’s Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to reinstate a ban on oral and anal sex.

An awesome mom petitions Mattel for more multicultural Barbie accessories for her daughter.

In defense of being a

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Can an Asian woman be taken seriously in rap?

Answer: This is a stupid question.

New York magazine’s profile of Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, details the Korean-Chinese-American rapper’s rise from her hilarious “My Vag” track last year to the harder “NYC Bitche$,” which was released in March. The article’s headline asks: “Can an Asian Woman Be Taken Seriously in Rap?”

The piece dabbles in gender identity politics in hip hop. Can women rap? Well, sure. Will it be hard? Duh. Lum says:

“If women dabble in rap but they’re not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise. There’s a degree of having to prove yourself, also, and that’s really hard: I’m not trying to ruin your institution, I’m trying to ...

Answer: This is a stupid question.

New York magazine’s profile of Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, details the Korean-Chinese-American rapper’s rise from her hilarious “My Vag” track last year to the harder “NYC ...

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

The Associated Press drops “illegal” from immigrant

In a stunning victory for immigration advocates, the Associated Press Stylebook, the bible of grammar and style for journalists in the U.S., will no longer describe people who live in a country illegally as “illegal immigrants.” The reasoning is one that activists have been making for years, with campaigns such as “Drop the I-Word”: People are not illegal. Actions are.

Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor of the stylebook, described the organization’s reasons in a blog post yesterday:

The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating ...

By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Quick Hit(s): Women in Business

On the heels of some good gender byline news, The New York Times Dealbook ran a special section on women in business that had a nearly 50-50 split on bylines. Even better news: For the most part, the stories move beyond the rehashed lean-in-have-it-all conversation that has dominated the news cycle regarding working women.

Instead, “Women in a Man’s World” details challenges and opportunities for women in banking, private equity, law, technology, and corporate governance.

In one striking story that profiles several high-profile women on Wall Street, Irene Dorner, chief executive of HSBC USA, blames herself and her female peers for the absence of senior women in ...

On the heels of some good gender byline news, The New York Times Dealbook ran a special section on women in business that had a nearly 50-50 split on bylines. Even better news: For ...