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Meet the Reproductive Rights Group Pushing the Movement Even Further Left
Reproaction was borne out of a simple observation: the pro-choice movement is losing in America.
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Amnesty International’s Policy Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work is a Move in the Right Direction
Amnesty International’s Board has put together a draft policy on sex work that could lift up and protect some of the most vulnerable and marginalized folks around the world – and feminists and human rights advocates alike could learn a lot from it. The only problem is that they’re too busy speaking over the sex workers and researchers who emphatically support the proposal to really do so.
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Clinical Trials on Trial: Medical Studies Still Exclude Women and People of Color to Dangerous Degree
Lack of information makes it impossible for women and people of color today to make fully informed decisions about their health, and denies them the right to advocate for what happens to their bodies.
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Barbie Doesn’t Earn Feminist Empowerment Badge for Becoming A Girl Scout
By creating this “For Girls” section of their site and featuring the Barbie products, the Girl Scouts have made a dramatic shift in their branding and in the language they use to describe their girls, which up until now has been pretty conscious of making the “girl” in Girl Scouts mean a lot of different things.
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San-Diego Comic Con Uses Minor Policy Changes Against Sexual Harassment: It’s Super Ineffective
“This is what happens when the patriarchy dons a cape and a cowl.”
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We Have Lots of Noise, We Need Lots of Solutions: Preventing Sexual Assault at (Every) American University
The recent scandal surrounding the disturbing messages leaked from American University’s Epsilon Iota is a national story, and sheds light on a national problem. The response of AU students shows us something, too — how students can organize as a community to force their administrations to take action against campus sexual assault.
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The Future’s Not Here Yet: Neither Gay Rights Movement Nor Feminism Has “Succeeded”
“Do u think part of the reason gay rights has moved forward while women’s rights backwards is b/c gay rights includes men’s rights?”
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How Do We Make Sense of This? Breaking Down Our Campus Rape Problem
A former campus activist explains why universities are getting away with not seriously addressing rape on campus, and why they need to start.
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Women’s History Month: Your Reference Guide for 2013
Happy Women’s History Month, homos!
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Saudi Arabia’s Working Women Propose Their Own City Because They’re Tired of Waiting
If you can’t beat ’em, move out and show ’em they fucked up. And maybe it will work.
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Michele Smith Makes History: A Love Letter to Title IX and Women in Sports
Ladies, you are now welcome in the wide-world of baseball analysis, at least according to one broadcasting booth. And if you are as awesome as Michele Smith.
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Republican Women’s Policy Committee Shows Little Interest In Helping Women Outside the Committee
24 Republican female legislators have formed a Women’s Policy Committee, but it’s way less exciting than it sounds.
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Rush Limbaugh Screws Himself Over Talking About Sex
In which Rush Limbaugh is just as wrong as one could possibly be.
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Georgia Teaches Us How Not to Combat Childhood Obesity
Georgia’s new anti-childhood-obesity campaign uses stigma and guilt as its main players — what’s wrong with this picture?
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And When The Gender Revolution Came, It Was Brought By Mommy Bloggers
For real, though: what is wrong with effeminate men? Mothers of America need to know — and they’ve got blogs!
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10 Best Quotes From Midsummer’s Great Girl-on-Girl Feminist Cyberwar
It’s a new dawn & a new day for feminism on the internet, and a lot of ladies have said a lot of things about it and even if nobody won The Daily Show/Olivia Munn/#yallarejustjealous cyber-wars, some of those things are really important things! Also, Jezebel is taking over the internet if that’s ok with you.