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"We Are the Best" is a Joyous Coming-of-Age Film About Young Punks
It’s 1982 and punk is dead. Spearheading its return (at least at their school), are thirteen-year-old best friends: the stoic Bobo and loudmouth Klara.
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The Feminism of Sailor Moon
If you grew up watching TV in the 1990s, there is no way you escaped seeing at least a few episodes of Sailor Moon.
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On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup
Here’s what’s on our radar today:
• Here’s a closer look at a study revealing why Hobby Lobby supporters are so fiercely against birth control and... Read more »
"Kidnapped for Christ" Reveals the Dark World of Evangelical Teen Reform Schools
When we first meet fresh-faced director Kate Logan in new documentary Kidnapped for Christ, she’s a budding Evangelical filmmaker from a Christian college heading to the Dominican Republic to document a school for at-... Read more »
Sex Workers Stage Protests Against Police Crackdowns at the World Cup
While a FIFA fan fest raged in Rio de Janeiro’s ritzy Copacabana neighborhood last week, a few blocks away Brazilian sex workers were having their own party.
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About the Cover: The Tough Issue
For the cover of the Tough issue, my love of eye candy met my hunger for a good metaphor.
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Punk Band Priests Gains Fans the Old-School Way
Priests playing in a Raleigh, NC, bookstore in June. All photos by Natalie Jarema.
Promotional material describes D.C. punk band Priests as “the sort of band that is unafraid to look you right in the eye and beg answers to big questions.” So I take lead singer Katie Alice Greer up on that... Read more »
The Women's Dissent
Madison residents picket their local Hobby Lobby on July 5th. Photo by Light Brigading (Creative Commons).
Well, that didn’t take long.
Within days of their ... Read more »
On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup
Here’s all the news on our radar today:
• Looking for a new hobby? Jasmine Shea went into her local Hobby Lobby and did a little rearranging. [Twitter]
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The Real Women of “Orange Is the New Black” Are Now Activists
On June 21, women who had been imprisoned at FCI Danbury, where Orange is the New Black author Piper Kerman served most of her sentence, convened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for a rally.
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