social justice
16 Feminist Halloween Costume Ideas
There’s lots of advice out there about what not to be on Halloween—people dressing up as “Indians” and ... Read more »
One in Four Young Female Internet Users is Stalked Online
We’ve been talking about online harassment a lot in the past few weeks and now a timely ... Read more »
Meet the Awesome League of Female Magic: The Gathering Players
This past week at Geek Girl Con in Seattle, I met other women who had seen every episode of The X-Files, played every Legend of Zelda game, read every... Read more »
Nerds Unite at Seattle's Geek Girl Con: Photos.
Geek Girl Con took over downtown Seattle’s convention center this weekend for its fourth annual celebration of the creativity and cultural contributions of nerdy women everywhere.
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Laverne Cox and bell hooks Had a Discussion About Gender and Pop Culture
bell hooks is a scholar-in-residence at the New School in New York City this month and this week talked with none other than Laverne Cox in front of a packed crowd.
The conversation is a rare and honest... Read more »
Why Do We Protest?
A change climate protest before Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Photo by Adam Welz via 350.org.
If I were making a list of things that felt absolutely futile to protest, I’d put climate change at the... Read more »
Victim Blaming at the Miss America Pageant
Criticizing the Miss America pageant feels almost old school. Does anyone even take Miss America seriously anymore?
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Public Health Campaigns Shouldn't Shame Moms Who Choose Not to Breastfeed
A group of moms on The Simpsons responded in horror to Marge’s revelation that she doesn’t breastfeed.
National Breastfeeding Month just finished and let me say that, yes,... Read more »
The VMAs Cemented Feminism as Beyoncé's Brand. What Comes Next?
A confession: I wasn't going to write about The Thing. Everyone else, it seemed, had their think pieces written this past Sunday night, and I couldn't imagine what else... Read more »
When Someone in the Sex Industry is Attacked, It's Victim-Blaming Business as Usual
Perhaps it’s true that were Christy Mack not well-known as a porn star and tattoo model, this wouldn’t be such big news to begin with. But coming on the heels of very recent headlines about domestic violence, sparked by a video showing Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice dragging his... Read more »
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