March 2010
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It's a "coincidence" that only white men are... →
February 2010
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Jessica Valenti and The Purity Myth
On Tuesday I heard Jessica Valenti speak at New York City’s The Tank about her new book, The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women. The event was hosted by Paradigm Shift. Following are 10 things I left thinking about:
1. Five months before the book was released, anti-feminist conservatives used words like “slut” and “whore” to describe it. These critics had...
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My Interview with Marcia Pappas →
I interview Marcia Pappas, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) - New York State, who explains how “feminism” became a dirty word, the problem with the women’s rights industry, and the greatest feminist challenges left to overcome.
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Disturbing Op-Ed About Rape and Accountability in...
Iulia Neagu, a Princeton Freshman, wrote an op-ed this week about the “ambiguous situation” of date rape called “The real ‘Sex on a Saturday Night.’” Among the many inaccurate and victim blaming points in her piece, she writes:
We live in times when sexual discrimination has, more or less, disappeared from our society. Yet it still prevails when talking about a...
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Coverage of the Health Care March across the...
Seven hundred of us marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, February 20th, for health care reform. Following is some coverage of the event, as well as information about the state of health care in the United States:
A Beautiful Day to March Across the Brooklyn Bridge Hundreds March for A Public Option HCAN press release
CBS 2 News Brooklyn Bridge March
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Math and Science Don't Come Easily to Most Men... →
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A woman who was “bad at math” talks about overcoming cultural cues to become a mechanical engineer.
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Ex-Safety Officer Sues Bucknell for Gender... →
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The Third Wave of Feminism and Beyond
Cross-posted on feministing.com
On Thursday I went to a panel called “The Third Wave of Feminism and Beyond” at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York City. The gallery is currently featuring a great exhibit of Cynthia MacAdams’ black & white feminist portraits from the 70’s.
Panelists included beat poet and performer Anne Waldman, Academy award winning actress and...
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“Here’s the deal: men, without thinking, will almost without fail select men. And...”
– From Claire Messud’s “Writers, Plain and Simple” in February’s Guernica
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If You're in the Mood to Donate... →
This is a great list of organizations that specialize in supporting women in developing countries, vetted by Half the Sky authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
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Brands to Avoid Based on their Super Bowl Ads
Brand: Bridgestone Tires Ad: “Your Tires or Your Life” - A man shoves his scantily-clad girlfriend out of a car instead of giving up his tires Agency: Dallas-based Richards Group Thoughts: Too bad, because their other ad, “Whale of a Tale,” was actually quite cool.
Brand: Flo TV Ad: A man whose spine has been removed is shopping for lingerie with his shrill girlfriend...
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Safe Drinking Water
This isn’t so much a feminist issue as an everyone issue (although everyone should be a feminist). Our clean drinking water is in danger, and the organizations fighting to protect it need our help:
Change.org’s Petition against toxic sewage in America’s drinking water
The 2005 Halliburton Loophole that undermines the Safe Drinking Water Act and what you can do about it
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A Candid Look at Football's Misogynistic Culture →
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Abortion and the Superbowl
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CBS plans to air a 30-second, $2.5 million ad by right-wing anti-abortion group Focus on the Family during the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl audience is one of the largest of any event, spanning all ages and political positions. Last year’s viewership was 151.6 million.
Focus on the Family’s ad, yet to be released, allegedly features the story of football player...
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Today's 10 Funny Feminist Tweets
@ShelbyKnox I’m not very good with this whole working with other people thing. Otherwise known as life. #activistfail
@emergingmummy Hey, Focus on the Family, I dare you to take your Superbowl ad money and give it to Haiti. @julieclawson #Haiti #Superbowl
@AmandaMarcotte http://bit.ly/cDTAGo This is why I don’t believe in a god, at the end of the day.
@JessicaWakeman Signs you...
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“Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to...”
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RNC co-chair Jan Larimer on the Republican party’s efforts to recruit more women candidates
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French Algerian Playwright Attacked Over Feminist... →
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On January 15th, two men assaulted French Algerian writer, Rayhana, and doused her with gasoline, likely because of the feminist play she wrote and stars in, “At my age, I still hide to have a smoke.” The sold-out show takes an honest look at the treatment of Algerian women, which has led to repeated threats from Islamic extremists. Rayhana was...