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Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence
By David J. Leonard and Monica J. Casper The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that fully a third of women in the...
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Gendered Violence Wasn’t the Problem; Talking about It Was.
Soraya Chemaly (Editors’ Note: The introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) There are stories girls never tell. We...
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Secular Woman of the Year
I’m honored to be recognized as the Secular Woman of the Year by Secular Woman, a feminist gender justice organization dedicated to “amplifying the voice, presence, and influence...
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An Open Letter to Facebook
From Women, Action and Media May 21, 2013 An Open Letter to Facebook: We, the undersigned, are writing to demand swift, comprehensive and effective action...
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Feminists We Love: Liora K
Liora K is an Arizona photographer who produces art not only for work and pleasure, but also for Feminism. When I first discovered Liora’s provocative...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the airwaves have been vibrating—often furiously—with conversations about guns. And as always in the United States, the issue...
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The War on Women: A Progressive Man’s View
By Vincent Martin A (self-admitted) conservative male acquaintance recently asked me what the War on Women means. Herein I will attempt to answer him. First, let...
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Circle Of 6 App: Stopping Sexual Violence Before It Happens
By Soraya Chemaly I live in a city where the death of college student Yeardley Love and the conviction of her classmate George Hugeley for second degree...
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Personhood For Women: Is this Personal Enough?
By Soraya Chemaly Melissa McEwan recently started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that “a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full,...
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Faux-Apology Not Accepted: Fire Rush Limbaugh for His Hateful Misogyny
By Soraya Chemaly Rush Limbaugh’s limp quasi-apology to Sandra Fluke isn’t good enough. Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the US, should fire him...
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Republican Candidates To Debate Whose Sperm is More Sacred
By Soraya Chemaly In the wake of Rick Santorum’s three-state primary and caucuses win yesterday, Republican candidates have agreed to debate whose sperm is actually most sacred....
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Definition of Rape: 7 Ways To Rethink How We Approach Sexual Assault
By Soraya Chemaly Today the FBI updated it’s circa 1920 definition of rape. Until today, rape was still defined as “The carnal knowledge of a female...
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Iowa Caucus: What's in it for Women?
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondant The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Fortieth. This ranking, based on 2010 data,...
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Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondent, feminist satirist and media critic Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of...
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Holiday Films: Does This Year's Crop Misrepresent Women?
By Soraya Chemaly The Holiday movie season is here! And, true to form, as revealed in USC’s Annenberg School’s most recent study of gender in the 100...
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Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity
By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend of mine win her first sanctioned kickboxing title. I’ve been training in martial...
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Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The...
