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21.
Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
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(Entertainment)
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... and nasty comments about her body. For instance, when she played the role of Batgirl in the 1997 movie Batman & Robin, tabloids called her “Fatgirl” and she was even chased through airports by journalists ...
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Created on 14 March 2022
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Darlene Love and Joan Osborne to perform at “We Got the Beat – A Women in Music Summit”: an Empowering Celebration of Women Artists, and a Call to Arms to Challenge the Rampant Misogyny in the Music I
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(Music)
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... stacked lineup (full list below) includes award-winning performers, music industry leaders, DJs, photographers, filmmakers, authors, and journalists, as well as mainstage concerts by legendary Rock & Roll ...
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Created on 02 March 2022
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23.
Soleil Moon Frye Talks "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder" and How Her Documentary, "Kid90" Forced Her To Face Some Hard Truths About Her Past and Prese
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(Entertainment)
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... one of my dearest lifelong friends, when they watched the cut, they said "You know, I never really understood what you were doing back then, but I realize now, you were a teen journalist. When I starte ...
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Created on 01 March 2022
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24.
Pu*sypedia is the Inclusive and Essential Online Health Resource You Need to Reference (Even If You Don't Have a Vagina
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(Feminism)
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... and co-founder Zoe Mendelson, and art director and co-founder María Conejo. Mendelson is a freelance journalist, researcher, and content strategist based in Mexico City–where she connected with Conejo, ...
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Created on 28 February 2022
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25.
9 Hot Pieces of Feminist Media, Including Podcasts, Documentaries, and New Releases From Björk and Laurie Anderson
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(Arts)
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... spin. Learn more at melaniecharles.com.
6. Encyclopedia Womannica Podcast
Hosted by journalist Jenny Kaplan, the Encyclopedia Womannica podcast profiles a new, fascinating woman from history ...
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Created on 15 February 2022
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26.
13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... now:
Duende District: New Mexico and Washington DC
Angela María Spring is a poet, author, editor, journalist, and the owner of Duende District. Spring, a Latinx woman of Puerto Rican and Central ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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27.
"We Are Not Like Them" Is A Poignant, Collaborative Novel by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza On How To Navigate Friendship and Rac
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(Books)
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WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM: A Novel
By Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
(Atria Books)
The novel We Are Not Like Them starts with a compelling premise. A Black journalist named Riley returns home to Philadelphia ...
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Created on 24 November 2021
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28.
Where is Peng Shuai? Chinese Tennis Player Disappears From Public Eye After Sharing Her #MeToo Story. She Reappears for Video Call with IOC President, But Why Are They Ignoring the Allegations?
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(Feminism)
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... history of censorship by the government, targeting social media, journalists, and heavily restricting international media and influence. Sites like Facebook, Instagram, and some Google websites are restricted ...
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Created on 23 November 2021
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29.
Growing Up MLM: LuLaRich, The Sticky Ideology Of MLMs, and Reflections on Being the Child of a Mary Kay Recruit
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(Living)
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... only begins to scrape the top of the iceberg.
The thing about multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes is, as MLM expert Robert FitzPatrick and journalist Jill Filipovic explain over the course of the four-part ...
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Created on 23 September 2021
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30.
Inside Job: Rosa Brooks Wanted To Shed Light On Problems In Policing—So She Became A Cop
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(Books)
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Rosa Brooks was tear-gassed in utero. As the 1960s became the ’70s, her mother, left-wing activist and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, was pregnant and protesting against the Vietnam War when she was ...
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Created on 21 September 2021
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31.
"It Does Revenge In A Small Way": Violet Kupersmith On Ghosts, Trauma, And Her New Novel, "Build Your House Around My Bod
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(Books)
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... any good ghost stories or experiences?
Well I made the mistake of trying to spend the night in one of the haunted French villas in the forest with a journalist friend. I was like, ‘I’m [going to] go ...
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Created on 09 August 2021
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32.
Washington Post Reporter Felicia Sonmez is Suing the Paper for Gender Discrimination
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(Feminism)
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... that the lawsuit was referring to Post journalist Simon Denyer. The allegations against Denyer were also made in 2018 and investigated internally by the newspaper who later found no wrongdoing.
The ...
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Created on 03 August 2021
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33.
Black Monuments Matter: Journalist and Civil-Rights Activist Ida B. Wells Gets Statue in Downtown Memphis
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(Feminism)
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Nearly 130 years ago famed journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells was driven out of Memphis for reporting on the lynching of three Black men; a statue of the former resident will be unveiled ...
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Created on 14 July 2021
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34.
The Remarkable Story of Three Teenage Girls Who Seduced and Killed Traitors During WW II
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(Feminism)
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... devastating famine, created by the Germans, that is gripping the country. Wafelbakker is a 57-year-old retired journalist and children’s book translator who never married and lives alone. She’s also a ...
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Created on 09 July 2021
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#Bye, Felicia. Nikole Hannah-Jones Rejects UNC's Last Minute Offer of Tenure, Joining the Faculty of Howard University Instead. ...
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(Feminism)
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist of the New York Time’s 1619 Project, has declined the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Journalism School’s tenure offer after controversy ...
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Created on 08 July 2021
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36.
Naomi Osaka’s Decision to Leave French Open Sparks a Needed Conversation about the Mental Health of Athletes
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(Living)
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... I wanna apologize to all the cool journalists I may have hurt), I am not a natural public speaker and get huge waves of anxiety before I speak to the world’s media,” she added.
The Calm App, a popular ...
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Created on 04 June 2021
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37.
Naomi Osaka Announces That She Won't Be Doing Press At French Open For Mental Health Reason
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(Feminism)
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Osaka’s statement garnered a lot of attention after being posted, gaining support from journalists and other celebrities alike. Yet, she is not the first to speak against the overwhelming presence ...
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Created on 27 May 2021
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38.
"Nothing That Restricts": Ashley C. Ford Gives Us A Peek Into The Practice That Produced Her Memoir: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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Journalist, podcaster, educator, and social-media maven Ashley C. Ford has written one of the most anticipated memoirs of the season. Somebody’s Daughter (out June 1) chronicles her upbringing in Indiana ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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39.
After Appointing Nikole Hannah-Jones, Conservative UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees Denies Knight Chair Tenure for the First Time Since 1980 for One Reason: “Politics”
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(Feminism)
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... happens.
When Hannah-Jones was appointed to the chair in April, Susan King, dean of the journalism school, said, “Now one of the most respected investigative journalists in America will be working with ...
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Created on 21 May 2021
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40.
For Centuries, Some Asian Women Have Chosen to Live Communally, Preferring to Take Care Of Each Other Rather Than Rely On Men
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(Living)
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... today!
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