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Celebrating Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 and died on July 17, 1959. She squeezed a lot of living–and a whole lot of music–into...
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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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Women Running
This election year is important in so many ways, especially for women and girls. We have seen unprecedented attacks on women’s reproductive rights, vicious battles...
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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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Mother Roots
Mother. Womb of life. Nine months we devour your roots. Screaming we suck your trunk. Waking we demand your attention. Laughing we beg you to...
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Mental Health and Illness: A Forum
Psychological issues permeate and are affected by many aspects of our society – including gender, race, sexuality, class, age, nationality, culture, language, identity, education, religion,...
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Celebrating International Women's Day
Today, in partnership with more than 200 organizations and individuals, TFW is blogging for social justice. Gender Across Borders and CARE are sponsoring the Third...
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Noumenal Woman
A fabulous poem for International Women’s Day 2012. This time a poem inspired by, and dedicated to, Maya Angelou and phenomenal women everywhere. ...
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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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A 21st Century Shakespearean Tragedy
Some feminist satire for Friday! To vajazzle or not to vajazzle? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a plain vagina, Or to take arms against a sea of glittering vulva, And by opposing end them? To die: to bling no more; and by not bling to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that labia is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. ...
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Introducing: Hakima Abbas
Hakima Abbas is a political scientist, policy analyst and activist. She has been active in struggles for social justice on issues of self-determination, race, class,...
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Introducing: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA....
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Introducing: Mariko Nagai
Mariko Nagai is a graduate of New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she was the Remarque Fellow in Poetry. Her stories, poems, and translations...
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Introducing: Shubhra Sharma
Shubhra Sharma joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2010 as the Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. At Connecticut College, Shubhra teaches courses on transnational women’s movements...
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Introducing: Kevin Allred
Kevin Allred has a Bachelor’s degree from Utah State University and a Master’s degree from UMass Boston, both in American Studies. He has taught extensively in Women’s...
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Introducing: Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens. She co-edited the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color...
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Forget Star Wars it's Tit Wars! The Sun's editor claims Page 3 is a 'force for good'
The Sun’s editor, Dominic Mohan, was recalled a few weeks ago to give further evidence about Page 3 and the UK tabloid’s portrayal and reporting of...
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Call for Submissions
Submissions of short stories, short creative non-fiction, and art pieces are requested for possible appearance in an academic/scholarly book tentatively entitled “A Lesson in Doubt:...