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The Date Rape Story I'll Some Day Share with My Daughters

5/7/12 10:22am by shannoncolleary
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Young Woman on Beach

When I awoke that bright spring morning of March 21st, 1986, in a pensione in Venice, Italy, I didn’t expect the day to end on a dark, deserted beach with a boy I'd just met pinning me to the ground hissing in my ear that he had "un coltello" (a knife) and that "ho intenzione di ucciderti" (he'd kill me) if I didn't "f--k" him.  Read more >

Vagina Lightening Cream for Lady Bits So White They Shine!

4/19/12 10:28am by Grace Hwang Lynch
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Clean and Dry ad

[Editor's Note: Summer's just around the corner! Which means it's the time of year when white women try to get tan, and brown women try to keep themselves from... getting browner. Skin lightening creams are nothing new in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but now there's a whitening product aimed where the sun don't shine. Seriously. Jen Wang of DISGRASIAN writes about how the colonial and cultural quest for fairer skin is going places it's never gone before. --Grace]  Read more

Black Woman Body Cake: White Privilege Swedish Style (Video)

4/18/12 6:28pm by Nordette Adams
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Swedish Black body cake

The National Afro-Swedish Association is demanding that Sweden's minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth be fired for participating in an April 15th World Art Day celebration during which she ate a piece of cake. The problem is not that she ate cake; the problem is the kind of cake she ate. The video in this post that was filmed at the art installation is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen.  Read more >

A New Report Reveals Hundreds of Afghan Women Jailed for "Moral Crimes"

3/28/12 12:45pm by Mona Gable
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Afghan women leaving prison

[Editor’s note: It doesn’t take much for a woman--or a girl--to be imprisoned in Afghanistan. Just run away from an abusive husband or because you've been raped. Or commit some other “moral crime.” According to a scandalous new report by Human Rights Watch, some 400 women and girls are now languishing in Afghan prisons for just such “moral crimes.”–Mona]  Read more

The Women's Movement: Who Will Be the Next Gloria Steinem?

3/27/12 12:00am by tabbybiddle
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Steinem by Queen of Planning

There has been a lot of talk lately about what's next for the women's movement. In a recent piece in the New York Times, journalist Sarah Hepola asked the question, "Why, in 40 years, has no one emerged as Gloria Steinem's successor?"  Read more >

Domestic Violence Is Sexy

3/20/12 12:00am by Mama By The Bay
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Domestic violence (Flickr)

Chris Brown and Rihanna are singing about how they want to fuck each other, and everyone is talking about it. She’s either a marketing genius who knows just what the media wants, the editorials say, or she’s a lost little superstar who doesn’t realize the impact that her choices are having on impressionable teenage girls everywhere. It doesn’t matter which one it is, because we can’t look away. Why?  Because this latest musical collaboration is sexy.  Read more >

The Real-Life Consequences of Texas' Anti-Abortion Law: One Woman's Painful Story

3/19/12 3:21pm by Mona Gable
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Pregnancy cupcakes

[Editor's note: Over the past year states have been glibly passing laws to make it as difficult for women to end a pregnancy. No matter the danger to her own life or health. So what has been the impact of these callous and intrusive new laws? Well, in Texas, that bastion of women’s rights, we already know. If you want to really understand how pregnant women are being affected as individuals, this harrowing story by Carolyn Jones at the Texas Observer will break your heart.--Mona] She writes:  Read more

Sh*t Canadians Say to Aboriginal Women

3/16/12 6:01pm by Anna-Celestrya
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Sh*t Canadians Say to Aboriginal Women

[Editor's Note: The stories of Native American (or Aboriginal Canadian) women never seem to get enough coverage by the mainstream media. This video is worth a watch. --Grace]  Read more >

Madonna and My Wake-Up Call about The Double Standard In Aging

3/13/12 10:19am by Mona Gable
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Madonna at the Super Bowl

[Editor's note: Madonna's performance at the Super Bowl generated a lot of heat. And not all of it positive. Isn't she way too old to be dancing around like that on stage? How embarrassing! Yet as far as aging goes, what's forbidden or frowned upon for women of a certain age is often considered perfectly acceptable or even to be applauded in men. Deborah Shane realized this after seeing the reaction to the Material Girl's performance and blogged about it on Toolbox.--Mona]  Read more

Are We Trying to Dictate What Feminism Is to Women in the Third World?

3/12/12 11:07am by Mona Gable
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Women's march in London

[Editor's note: How is feminism in America different from feminism in other parts of the world? Have we tried to impose our own ideas about equality and what women should be fighting for on other countries? And what’s been the effect? Gayle Kimball takes a thought-provoking look at those issues at Fem2.0.--Mona] She writes:  Read more