January 2010
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Magazines make women who just had babies feel bad... →
Photo from illustrationcastle.com
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Women in Veils →
A photo essay of four sisters living in Yemen. Photo #7 is kind of astounding.
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"Women hold up half the sky. Or the world could...
This Chinese proverb is the idea on which Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof’s book Half the Sky is based.
In her Guernica interview, Katherine Dykstra interviews WuDunn about parallels between sex slavery and the slavery of Africans in the 1780’s, how genital cutting can be eradicated as effectively as foot binding in China, cultural imperialism vs. outrage and the difficulty with...
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“Love isn’t always a feeling. After you have been married for a number of...”
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From the article “25 Secrets of a Happy Marriage”
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Three Pro-Choice Links
On the violence of the pro-life movement
On trusting women to make their own decisions
On CBS allowing Focus on the Family to advertise during the Superbowl and a petition that they pull this controversial ad
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“We couldn’t be happier that with Massachusetts, health care looks like...”
– Keith Burkhart, an anti-choice Catholic physician from Silver Spring who attended the March for Life with tens of thousands of abortion opponents in Washington, DC yesterday
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NARAL's Interactive State-by-State Abortion Rights... →
View the status of women’s reproductive rights in the United States by state, as well as the overall grade each state received from NARAL (New York got an A-).
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Call to Action for Pro-Choice New Yorkers
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Today, from 6:30-8pm EST is NARAL Pro-Choice New York’s Reproductive Health Act (Phone) Call to Action. If you’re interested in getting in on the call, where you’ll learn more about the Reproductive Health Act and what you can do to get it passed in 2010, contact Community Organizer Lalena Howard at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506.
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Why Rape Jokes are Not Funny and What to do When... →
The above link on feministing.com led me to an anonymous blog by one of the best feminist writers I’ve ever come across. She’s eloquent and knowledgeable, as well as edgy, conversational and engaging, all of which are tough to combine. This post about rape humor is particularly brilliant. Check it out, it will make you smarter.
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On Clay Shirky's "Rant About Women"
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My college boyfriend and I were in the same economics statistics class. Our entire grade consisted of the midterm and the final. The day we got the midterm back I was sure that I had failed it. I was a wreck. There was no way I was going to be able to pass the class with the final alone. When I asked my boyfriend how he thought he did, he said he thought he...
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Counteracting Anti-Choice Propaganda
Stony Brook University graduate Meghan Shalvoy and the Stony Brook Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance put together a fact sheet to counteract anti-choice propaganda on campus. This is a good resource for anyone who encounters lies and misinformation about abortion.
Facts include:
About half of American women have experienced an unintended pregnancy, and at current rates more than one-third...
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WatchThis is amazing. I saw it last night.
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“For years I wanted to be first lady, and I thought that it was unfair that you...”
– -Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron and Gail Collins at the 92nd Street Y
It’s difficult to summarize Nora Ephron and Gail Collin’s talk at the 92nd Street Y last night. Entitled “Women Come of Age,” the event aimed to cover “the cataclysmic changes that have overhauled American women’s lives during the past five decades.” But the conversation jumped from feminism (“The number of things where you just go, ‘Oh my god, that was in my adult life’”), to Eliot Spitzer...
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The Top Five Selling Albums this Week: All Female... →
For the first time in history five female artists, including Susan Boyle, Lady Gaga and Alicia Keys, top the Billboard 200 list.
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How Religion Harms Women
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Thank you New York Times’ Nicholas D. Kristof, once again, for being one of the few sane voices in an insane world.
In his column yesterday, Kristof explained how religions that dictate that women are inferior human beings in the eyes of God (i.e. - almost all of the major ones) lead to the legal, academic and physical subjugation of women.
That’s a...
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“We’ve begun to raise our daughters more like sons… but few have the...”
– Gloria Steinem
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New York Magazine Sells Out Feminist Protesters
It’s surprising the few times New York Magazine’s tone isn’t shallow and gossipy, so I know that this incident shouldn’t even bother me, but in their Jan 4-11, 2010 Approval Matrix, somewhere between “Despicable” and “Highbrow,” the editors included “Protesters picket Ralph Lauren over ads in which models were Photoshopped to be skinner....
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Website Devoted to Photos of Women's Bodies After... →
Because we never see what real (not Photoshopped, not surgically altered) women’s bodies look like after pregnancy, and women shouldn’t have to apologize for “the beauty that created and nourished [their] children.”
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Ten Small Things You Can Do to Promote Gender... →
These gender equity tips are applicable to every academic field.
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Casey Johnson
Casey Johnson died today. I doubt most people know who that is. She was a wealthy socialite, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and part of the Paris Hilton crew. She was also a good friend of mine in 10th grade when we both went to private schools in New York City.
We lost touch by the end of high school, but for awhile there we prank called boys together, went on family vacations and...
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Marriage vs. Weddings →
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