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Twenty-year-old Aliaa Magda Elmahdy caused an uproar yesterday when the Egyptian college student posted nude photos of herself on her (very NSFW) blog, Rebel's Diary. Even in post-revolution Egypt, debates over censorship and gender discrimination are often heated. What can be said? Change takes a long time, and revolution doesn't happen in a day.  Read more >

Most women who end up engaged in activism to combat gender-based harassment were initially propelled towards the work based on personal experience. An author, longtime activist, and my good friend Mandy Van Deven is one such person. For more than a decade, she’s worked as a tireless organizer to encourage public discussion about gendered violence and youth empowerment. Earlier this year, she wrote this account of her first experience of feeling intimidated in public:  Read more >