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No More “Good Girls”: YA needs to get real about reproduction
YA fiction is more and more reflective of the world in which young people actually live, a new normal of characters and storylines encompassing all the complexities of sex, sexuality, and reproductive rights and justice.
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No Religion is Uniform: “Home Fire” Offers a New Vision of Women in Islam
Radicalization has more to do with vulnerability and a feeling of powerlessness than a religious tenet.
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Busting the Boys’ Club: Harlœ’s Leading a Music Revolution
Only six women have been nominated in the Grammys “Producer of the Year” category.
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She’s Dead, Wrapped In Plastic: On TV, the Only Good Girl Is a Dead Girl
The “dead girl trope” perpetuates the myth that girls must be pure to be valued.
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You Oughta Know: Bitch’s Weekly Pop Culture Obsessions
We’re still not over “The Bachelorette.”
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The Pleasure Dome: Breastfeeding for Nurturing...and Pleasure
Breastfeeding changes the relationship people have to their nipples.
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Long Interviews with Hideous Men: Stop Telling Us to “Understand” Bigotry
Do we really need to know the history of and justifications for someone’s beliefs or actions to understand that those beliefs and actions are objectively bad?
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Shonda Rhimes Wants To Take Over the World
Scandal is ending, but her world domination is just beginning.
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White Women Need to Do Better: The Death of “My Favorite Murder”
It’s so important that we not only make sure to represent victims of color well, but also cease to promote or accept tone policing, respectability politics, and straight, white people serving up opinions that go unchecked.
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