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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: A Swedish Student's Plane Protest Stopped a Deportation

by Bitch HQ
July 26, 2018 at 6:00am
A lone student activist on board a plane at Gothenburg airport prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden. Read more »
Norma Mccorvey

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Support for Roe v. Wade Is at an All-Time High

by Bitch HQ
July 25, 2018 at 6:00am
You wouldn’t know it by listening to Republicans. Read more »
Illustration from the Tough issue by Joe Waldron

Male Call: A Conversation About Masculinity and Violence with Byron Hurt and Jackson Katz

by Jesse Fruhwirth
July 24, 2018 at 1:49pm
Men are the primary victims as well as the primary perpetrators of murder, attempted murder, assault, and aggravated assault. Read more »
Fox and Friends First

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Nice Research Skills, "Fox & Friends First"

by Bitch HQ
July 24, 2018 at 6:00am
Wow. Read more »
Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau in American Horror Story: Coven

Flaunting Freedom: The History of Louisiana’s 18th-Century Tignon Laws

by Princess Gabbara
July 23, 2018 at 2:40pm
We cannot discount how enslaved Black women used dress as a form of resistance. Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Facebook's Been Bragging about the Trump Campaign

by Bitch HQ
July 23, 2018 at 6:00am
SMDH. Read more »
Stacy Rukeyser, showrunner of UnREAL

Stacy Rukeyser on Fighting for Feminist TV Characters

by Bitch HQ
July 20, 2018 at 1:09pm
The UnREAL showrunner talks misogyny and sexism in Hollywood. Read more »
Larry Nassar survivors receiveing the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Survivors Standing Together

by Bitch HQ
July 20, 2018 at 6:00am
They were awarded the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage. Read more »
Tessa Thompson and Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry To Bother You (Photo courtesy of Annapurna Pictures)

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: How "Sorry to Bother You" Found Its "White Voice"

by Bitch HQ
July 19, 2018 at 6:00am
“You don’t talk white enough.” Read more »
Vanessa Bryant and Kobe Bryant at a press conference in 2003 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles

All Pain, No Losses: ESPN Helps Kobe Bryant Escape the Wrath of #MeToo

by Britni de la Cretaz
July 18, 2018 at 10:00am
It’s time to rethink accountability. Read more »

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by Tina Vasquez
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by Joshunda Sanders
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Priv-lit and the new, enlightened American dream. Read more »

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by Zetta Elliott
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by Leela Ginelle
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Photo by Phillipe Leroyer (Creative Commons). Two weeks ago, Jonathan Chait published the lengthy essay “Not a Very P.C.... Read more »