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Chris Brown, Johnny Depp, and the Politics of Ex Abuse

May 12, 2017 at 12:47pm

There are many ways ex abuse can occur. It can be happen through stalking, threats, or by using children from the relationship as leverage for continued violence. The method can also be financial, such as withholding the financial compensation ordered by the court. At its worst, ex abuse can be deadly.

Irshad Manji at left, debates with two white men on CNN split screen

The Trouble With the Model Muslim: Islamophobic Muslims and the War on Terror

by Aqdas Aftab

May 12, 2017 at 9:30am

Both feminism and the long-running political panic over Muslim women have always been closely intertwined with imperialism, bombings, and border control.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: What a Week

by Bitch HQ

May 12, 2017 at 6:00am

Today we’re reading about Lizzie Borden, Marley Dias, and niceness.

Popaganda: Money Feelings

by Sarah Mirk

May 11, 2017 at 4:45pm

Feminist artists, activists, and entrepreneurs discuss their personal relationships to money on this episode. The show starts off with social justice educator and artist Roan Boucher, who cofounded the online journal Enough and now works for the worker co-op AORTA. Then, Refinery29 senior features writer Ashley C. Ford joins us to talk about the lasting impacts of growing up poor...

No Girls Allowed: The Fragility of Gaming Culture

by Samantha Riedel

May 11, 2017 at 1:59pm

As the Internet began to grow and accelerate through the ’90s and early 2000s, gamers began congregating in online spaces and solidifying the rules of their subculture…Many of those rules—fueled by any number of extant factors, such as sexual intimidation and social ostracization—could be synthesized into three words: “no girls allowed.”

Some of Us Are Brave: Killing the Mammy Myth: SheaMoisture Needs a Reminder that Black Women Built Its Success

by Tamara Winfrey-Harris

May 11, 2017 at 11:17am

The Mammy myth that casts Black women as faithful servants is about four centuries past its expiration date. Too many Black women have already starved our needs and desires trying to serve people, organizations, communities and businesses who will not serve us.