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Bethany Hamilton Slammed on Social Media For Transphobic Rant
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(Feminism)
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You may remember Bethany Hamilton as the author of the memoir Soul Surfer, which got a film adaptation in 2011, detailing her experience as a surfer who lost an arm as a result of a shark attack. Despite ...
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Created on 23 February 2023
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10 Fanstastic New Books by Women to Make Catching Up on that New Year's Resolution to "Read More" a Breeze! ...
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(Books)
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An old graffiti tag that once appeared on the streets of Washington, D.C., opined, “Punk means fight bullshit.” But if that’s the case, why are so many punk shows so claustrophobically, overwhelmingly ...
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Created on 24 January 2023
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Megan Thee Stallion Deserves Better
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(Entertainment)
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... referencing Meg and claiming she lied about getting shot. Even more recently, Rapper 50 Cent tweeted a meme comparing Meg to Jussie Smollett, who was infamously found guilty of faking a racist and homophobic ...
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Created on 20 December 2022
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From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
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(Entertainment)
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... the City writer Jenny Bicks. The documentary-style show follows the quirky residents of the fictional Midwestern town of Flatch. Hill is one such resident—a local magic shop owner who peddles vapes on ...
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Created on 16 June 2022
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Fiber Artist and Animator Andrea Love Combines Her Passions For Fibers and Stop-Animation, And The Results Will Blow Your Mind
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(Arts)
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ANDREA LOVE’S STOP-MOTION animated video “Cooking With Wool: Breakfast,” opens with a miniature kitchen made entirely of felt. A human hand enters the frame to turn on a felted electric stove, and a coil ...
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Created on 21 April 2022
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Trevor Noah Made An Important Point About The Kim-Kanye-Pete Davidson Situation—And Got Kanye Banned from Instagram
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(TV)
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... he was young, but his mother’s next husband, Noah’s stepfather, was abusive. He once beat Noah’s mother with scrap bicycle frames, and that kind of abuse became a regular occurrence. In 1996, Noah’s mother ...
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Created on 18 March 2022
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Titane, the Surprise Winner of the Palme D'Or, is Everything You've Heard It Is, But Is It Really a Gender-Bending Queer Fil
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(Movies)
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By now you’ve probably heard of Titane. It won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, marking only the second time a female director has won since Jane Campion made history with The Piano in 1993. ...
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Created on 01 November 2021
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Jenny Slate's Film "The Sunlit Night" Is An Earnest And Honest Attempt At Translating Creative Thinking Onto The Screen: Revi
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(Movies)
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... a studio assistant for the irascible Nils (Fridtjov Såheim), a Norwegian artist (and Jim Gaffigan look-alike) whose best days are largely behind him. Why not exchange her claustrophobic relationship with ...
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Created on 25 June 2021
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An Ode to Betty Dodson
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(Sex)
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... (Betty has been a really big booster of the Magic Wand), and masturbate together. Yup! Your mom might have even gone to one in 1983!
Betty was bicoastal in the ’70s and sold copies of her self-published ...
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Created on 02 November 2020
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Hannah Ewen's "Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture" Explores Fandom Through a New Le
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(Books)
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While the term “fangirl” has been playfully reclaimed by people of all genders, the historical portrayal of young women music enthusiasts has often landed somewhere between glossed-over footnote and ...
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Created on 09 October 2020
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NYC's Art in Odd Places: NORMAL Festival Showcases The Strangeness of 202
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(Arts)
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Isolation. Police brutality. Violence. Quarantine. A global pandemic. Wildfires. COVID-19. These are some of the words that have been ringing through our ears since the start of 2020. It feels very much ...
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Created on 05 October 2020
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Former Glossier Employees Demand Reform Opposed To Boycott In Response to Racist Workplace Culture
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(Style)
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... white feminists ensure and ultimately created: just because it is women owned, specifically white woman owned, led or created does not mean it cannot be racist, transphobic, or ableist.
There always ...
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Created on 20 September 2020
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Yikes: Bacardi Made A Vodka "For Today's Modern Women" And It’s B
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(Eat Me)
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... as Bic releasing pens “for her” (and thank god, because we weren’t able to use pens until that product came out). Or the time when the chief executive of Doritos suggested a new chip for women because ...
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Created on 23 July 2020
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How I Went From Loving to Hating Cards Against Humanity
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(Feminism)
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... of cultural power. Women have been hired, although not to create content. Cards like the transphobic “passable transvestites” have been removed. But it’s difficult, if you are a wealthy cis-gendered straight ...
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Created on 25 June 2020
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Hate Math? Thank The Patriarchy
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(Feminism)
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... at the University of British Columbia, opened a math-tutoring center for girls in Toronto, and recently launched a podcast, Math Therapy, aimed at helping the math-phobic confront their anxieties on the ...
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Created on 11 May 2020
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"Love Is Blind" Featured A Bisexual Contestant — But We Have A Long Way To G
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(TV)
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... gaslighting narcissist ass bitch boy," and others have tweeted, "But... like... Diamond losing her mind over Carlton dating guys in the past.. she's coming through looking real biphobic."
“He said he was ...
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Created on 05 March 2020
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This ‘Make Women Great Again’ Convention Is Giving Me Chest Pains
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(Feminism)
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... SNL sketch, but by the looks of it, this event is totally legit. This makes seeing transphobic rhetoric like “This event is for natural born biological women only. Mothers, grandmothers, and aspiring mothers ...
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Created on 12 February 2020
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The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
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(Feminism)
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Why do Americans cherish thinness while condemning heaviness? According to sociologist Sabrina Strings, contemporary fatphobia has roots in anti-Blackness. Here, she explains how corpulence became associated ...
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Created on 10 October 2019
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Opioid Heiress, Joss Sackler, Had The Audacity To Offer Courtney Love $100K To Attend Her Fashion Show
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(Entertainment)
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Page Six reports that Courtney Love turned down an offer of $100,000 to attend Purdue Pharma heiress Joss Sackler’s fashion show on Monday, claiming “The Sackler Family has no shame.”
This invitation ...
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Created on 09 September 2019
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“Rough Magic” Is A Fierce, Feminist Adventure
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(Books)
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... like a perfect hodgepodge of Snakes and Ladders and the Tour de France on unknown bicycles.” A year out of high school and straining for something lifelike to sink her teeth into, she’d been dreaming of ...
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Created on 16 August 2019