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More Than Checking Privilege: The Gun Debate Has To Get Serious About Race

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by Jenn Jackson
April 19, 2018 at 3:03pm
The tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School didn’t only affect white students.

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Trump Honoring Sexual Assault Awareness Month

by Bitch HQ
April 18, 2018 at 6:00am
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Viva Chavela: The Songs and Swagger of Chavela Vargas

by Bedatri D. Choudhury
April 17, 2018 at 4:36pm
Vargas’s rebellion was not just about what she wore and the company she kept, but also about what she chose to sing. Read more »

Sometimes it Snows in April: The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Still Echoes Through Today’s Gun Violence Activists

by Joshunda Sanders
April 17, 2018 at 11:20am
For decades, April has marked a somber commemoration in the annals of gun violence, and this month is no exception. Read more »

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Cool Girls

by Bitch HQ
April 10, 2018 at 6:00am
Why are the cool girls of Instagram flooding the Southwest? Read more »

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Denmark's New Statue

by Bitch HQ
April 4, 2018 at 6:00am
And she led a revolt against Danish colonial rule in the Caribbean. Read more »

Adventures in Feministory: Women's Comics of the '70s and '80s

by Kjerstin Johnson
March 7, 2018 at 1:05pm
San Francisco was home to more than a few alternative cartoonists, and when women found out what a boy’s club the scene seemed to be, they took matters into their own hands. Read more »
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Beyond Resistance: Our new Global Feminism Fellow Considers What's Next

by Jamila Brown
January 16, 2018 at 11:40am
Our strategies for resistance are incomplete if they do not shift consciousness and replace the structures that oppress us. Read more »
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BitchReads: The Best Black Women’s History Books of 2017

by Evette Dionne
December 19, 2017 at 11:35am
Female and nonbinary historians, scholars, and writers are pushing Black women’s stories into the canon.  Read more »
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Friday's Children: Revisiting—and Rethinking—the Sex-Positive 1970s

by Andi Zeisler
November 16, 2017 at 3:46pm
Nancy Friday’s bestselling collection of women’s erotic fantasies contradicted the staunch conviction that women lacked the rich sexual fantasy lives enjoyed by men. Read more »
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Jane, Aired: An Underground Abortion Collective Becomes a Hot Media Property

by vanessa borjon
October 3, 2017 at 12:08pm
In a time before abortions were legal or safe, the Jane collective took matters into their own hands, as women before them had always done. Read more »

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It's Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women

by Tina Vasquez
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Sojourner Truth, Unveiled

by Deesha Philyaw
April 29, 2009 at 2:58pm

The leaders of the [women's suffrage] movement trembled on seeing a tall, gaunt black woman in a gray dress and white turban,...

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In a Bizarre 1976 Comic Book, Spider-Man Fought the Villain of Misleading Sex Education

by Sarah Mirk
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Last week, I came across a very strange comic book: in 1976, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel to publish a one-off comic in which... Read more »

The Forgotten History of the Women Who Shaped Modern Advertising

by Ciara Lavelle
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Long before Peggy Olson fought to be a copywriter on Mad Men, women were pioneering advertisers in the new age of mass media.... Read more »