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What Women’s History Month Means To Me As A Young Black Woman in America... And It's Not What You Thin
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(Feminism)
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...
— oxford public philosophy (@oxfordpp) March 23, 2022
Well, fast forward to this Women’s History Month. The New York Times released an article with various women of color describing their experiences ...
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Created on 30 March 2022
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Malala Yousafzai Is Leading A Feminist Book Club And You Should Join
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(Books)
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Malala Yousafzai is starting a feminist book club, which is exactly what we need during this pandemic. She just graduated from Oxford University, but she’s been in the international spotlight for fighting ...
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Created on 24 August 2020
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5 Things We Wished We Missed This Weekend—But You Probably Shouldn'
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(Entertainment)
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... up.
via CDC/unsplash
Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Has Successful First Test With research facilities worldwide racing to find a COVID-19 vaccine first, there has been a lot of news over the weekend ...
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Created on 20 July 2020
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Boris Johnson Offends Women of The World (Again)
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(Feminism)
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Boris Johnson, Britain’s latest appointed Prime Minister, has yet again proved that his views on the working class are insulting and prejudicial. The Eton and Oxford educated, former journalist once ...
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Created on 04 December 2019
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Victims of Epstein Sex Trafficking Ring Will See Their Day In Court
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(Feminism)
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With the grand opening of its “women’s floor,” Nike’s Oxford Street, London location unveiled parasport and plus-size mannequins on June 5. These additions come as part of a growing string of initiatives ...
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Created on 08 July 2019
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Nike's Plus-Size Mannequins For Inclusivity Met With Fat-Phobic Outrag
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(Style)
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With the grand opening of its “women’s floor,” Nike’s Oxford Street, London location unveiled parasport and plus-size mannequins on June 5. These additions come as part of a growing string of initiatives ...
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Created on 10 June 2019
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5 Female Geniuses From History You Need To Know
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(Feminism)
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... Oxford in 1928, and left with a first class honours degree. This was pretty bloody amazing at the time, as there were limited spaces available for women to study at degree level (damn you, patriarchy!). ...
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Created on 15 March 2019
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The Best Historical Fiction To Curl Up With This Winter
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(Books)
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... out the story of these two women. Then, the story shifts from Anna and Emily to Penelope and Diana, two students who started attending a ladies' college in Oxford during the 1880s.
The mystery of what ...
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Created on 14 December 2018
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In Defense Of Shame
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(Feminism)
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As I type this, I am sure that Brett Kavanaugh will be appointed by Congress to be the next Supreme Court Justice. The nation watched yesterday as one of his victims came forward against her wishes ...
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Created on 28 September 2018
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10.
I Am A Woman Of Color Studying English Literature. Why Aren't There More Of Us
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(Living)
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... your children from doing what they love.
I know I am not alone in feeling othered at my university. A few years ago, the Guardian reported on a project called “I, too, am Oxford.” In the project, Oxford ...
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Created on 05 March 2018
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11 New Books By Women To Read This Summer
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(Books)
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... A History of Women and Desire
By Carol Dyhouse
(Oxford University Press)
Western social history buffs will appreciate Heartthrobs – an examination of books, film, and television concerned with the ...
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Created on 10 July 2017
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I Thought We Were Moon Sisters, But Apparently Menstrual Synchrony Is A Myth
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(Feminism)
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... women living together in dorms for a year, and found no evidence that their periods had become synchronized.
Most recently, period-tracking app Clue teamed up with Oxford University to study menstrual ...
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Created on 13 April 2017
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13.
The Outrage Against Childfree Women Is Real — And Needs To Stop
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(Feminism)
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... I planned on having kids and I told her no. She said 'Smart woman! Mine have given me nothing but hell!'"
Finding support online is easier today than ever before. In 2009, a University of Oxford pape ...
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Created on 29 March 2017
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14.
Inside The Trigger Warning Debate
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(Feminism)
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... Chicago letter may have caused the biggest reaction, it wasn’t the first institution to find itself at the center of a media maelstrom around this issue—Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford are just a few of ...
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Created on 18 January 2017
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15.
BUST's Top 20 Books Of 201
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(Books)
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... 2016 (Oxford University Press)
The titular torso in this suspenseful account was discovered near Philadelphia in 1887. And the subsequent investigation of whom the torso belonged to and what had happened ...
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Created on 09 December 2016
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12 Brilliant Female Mathematicians You Should Know
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(Feminism)
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9. Mary Cartwright (1900-1998)
Cartwright, a British mathematician, graduated with a first class degree in mathematics from St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1923. She was the first woman to obtain a ...
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Created on 14 March 2016
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These True Crime Books Will Fill The Serial-Shaped Hole In Your Heart
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(Books)
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... MARY TABBS AND THE DISEMBODIED TORSO: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America By Kali Nicole Gross
(Oxford University Press)
5/5 BUST rating
The titular torso in this suspenseful account was ...
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Created on 18 February 2016
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18.
OMG Teenage Girls Are Legit Vocab Innovators
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(Feminism)
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... Gretchen McCulloch for Quartz. It's bizarre to think about, especially when words like 'selfie,' and 'bootylicious' seem hardly cutting-edge at face value. Still, both can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary ...
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Created on 19 August 2015
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Elliot Rodger, Mass Murderer: More than Mental Illness
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(General)
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... illness? According to Seena Fazel, a senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Oxford, "[t]he vast majority of violent crimes in society, including homicides, are not committed by people with ...
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Created on 27 May 2014
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TIME Makes Nancy Gibbs Managing Editor #brava
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(Feminism)
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... and, as NYT reports, the magazine’s Twitter account has a whopping 4.9 million followers.
But as a Yale graduate, an Oxford University Marshall Scholar, and a two-time Ferris Professor at Princeton, ...
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Created on 27 September 2013