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Three Surgeons General Speak Out Against Abstinence-Only Sex-Ed
Three former Surgeons General banded together for a common cause this week: supporting sex education.
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Got the World in a Jug: The legacy of the blueswoman transcends genre
All brazen women in popular music, it could be argued, owe a debt to Bessie Smith. The no-nonsense, deep-voiced singer, nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, made more money than any other Black performer of her time, recording 160 songs between 1923 and 1931, many about sexual desire, abusive... Read more »
The Best Thing About "Tomorrowland" Is the Spunky Teen Girl Genius
Disney’s Tomorrowland is a feel-good film built around a simple, optimistic idea: If all the dreamers, artists, and geniuses truly pitched in, we humans could work our way out of this current mess of climate change, constant war, and global inequality.
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The Ecofeminism of “Mad Max”
I went into Mad Max: Fury Road expecting to see a lot of explosions.
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The Thrilling Adventures of Ada Lovelace Are Now a Lovely Science Comic
Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician. Her mind raced with big ideas on abstract mathematics—in 1843, she wrote what historians regard as the first paper on... Read more »
What if We Thought of Virginity as a Punch Card?
An ad seen in the documentary How to Lose Your Virginity. Photo by Therese Schechter.
In How To Lose Your Virginity, director Therese Shechter explores some of life’s big... Read more »
A Comic About One Woman's Pregnancy
Cartoonist Rebecca Roher drew this beautiful comic for the Moms issue of Canadian feminist magazine GUTS. Enjoy.
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The 20-Week Abortion Ban Shows How Little Politicians Care About Science
Photo by Sylvia McFadden.
On Wednesday, the House passed a bill that would ban abortion 20 weeks after conception across the United States.
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Six Queer Lady Comedians I Now Know and Love
From top left: Funny people Caitlin Gill, Sam Jay, Scout Durwood, Maggie Farris, Jessica Sele, & Ever Mainard.
On the first night of Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival this weekend, six brilliant queer ladies... Read more »
Popaganda Episode: Women of Science
The world has a long history of excluding women from science and—when women have been able to bust into the male-dominated halls of science—of overlooking their work. But against all odds, women have made astounding contributions to the fields of science, technology,... Read more »
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