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1. Carnations, Meat Hash, and ”Watching Your Mother’s Face”: 9 Mother’s Day Celebrations From Around the World: (Feminism); ... (not Roses), And Dolls Children in Japan get up early and present their mothers with red carnations to show their love and appreciation. Red carnations symbolize a mother's sweetness and purity. They ...; Created on 06 May 2022
2. Meet Crystal Cheatham, The Queer Christian Activist Who's New Bible App Delivers Inspiration Without Persecutio: (Living); ... for fundamentalist-free content. “I wanted to build something that wasn’t for purity culture,” she says, “and I knew the creators were out there.” The app also busts up the monolith of traditional mainstream ...; Created on 01 April 2021
3. La Chica's "La Loba" is An Anthem for She-Wolv: (Music); ... This is meant to parallel the crowning of a newborn from the mother’s vagina. The visuals beg to question: How can the face of purity be surrounded by so much violence at the same time? It is never explicitly ...; Created on 09 December 2020
4. Saints and Sinners: The Madonna-Whore Complex in "Yes, God, Yes: (Movies); ... them to exhibit stereotypically “feminine” traits such as modesty, purity and gentleness. In Yes, God, Yes, Alice is taught that her worthiness must be earned—and then continuously proven—through piety, ...; Created on 04 September 2020
5. We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton: (Movies); ... red stands for valor, the white for purity, and the blue for perseverance and justice. The circle of stars denotes for the 13 original colonies that made up the United States. While there isn’t a lot of ...; Created on 10 July 2020
6. It's Time to Stop “Stanning” Politician: (Feminism); ... Star Wars diehard. Stan culture can be a fun way to build online communities of like-minded folks. But “stan culture” left unchecked will be subsumed by its worse impulses — the purity and superiority ...; Created on 27 June 2020
7. 10 Feminist Horror Flicks To Watch This Summer: (Movies); ... unleash a supernatural presence during their stay at a Christian purity camp. The fathers of the girls attend the retreat with them and learn how to “protect” their daughters from male desire while the ...; Created on 26 June 2020
8. States Are Calling To Ban Virginity Testing, But What’s Up With This Barbaric Practice In The First Place?: (Feminism); ... the world, it hasn’t stopped virginity tests from being conducted for other reasons. In some countries, the examination has been performed before a woman can be married to ensure her purity. Other countries ...; Created on 07 February 2020
9. The Subtle Misogyny of Christian Girl Youtube: (Feminism); ... over purity. In their image of womanhood, we are all condemned to a life in constant fear of the almighty white male God’s wrath for exploring our sexual desires. This is a constant theme in everything ...; Created on 04 November 2019
10. Caster Semenya Will Have To Suppress Her Testosterone Levels To Compete — Here's Why That's Messed: (Feminism); ... to preserving the purity of female competition. Now, Semenya and other female athletes with high testosterone levels will either choose to follow this new ruling, or have to decide between options such ...; Created on 02 May 2019
11. How Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Is Fighting Back Against A Discriminatory Testosterone Limit: (Feminism); Last year, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) proposed a testosterone limit on women runners. Caster Semenya, a 2-time Olympic gold medalist and 3-time world champion runner ...; Created on 21 February 2019
12. A Feminist Pastor Gifted Gloria Steinem With A Vulva Sculpture Made Of Purity Rings: (Feminism); ... antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and bodies. In November 2018, Bolz-Weber announced an art project on Twitter and invited women to send her their purity rings. ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm inviting women to ...; Created on 19 February 2019
13. Nepal Woman Dies From Suffocation In Banned Menstruation Hut: (Feminism); ... tradition known as chhaupadi, Bogati isolated herself in an abandoned house. Chhaupadi, meaning someone who bears an impurity, considers women’s menstruation to be unclean and a bringer of bad luck. During ...; Created on 04 February 2019
14. How I Recovered From Sex And Love Addiction: (Sex); Charlene deGuzman wrote and stars in Unlovable (still image above), now streaming on Amazon, iTunes, and GooglePlay. Unlovable is a dramedy about a sex- and love-addicted woman who learns what real ...; Created on 13 December 2018
15. What "Twilight" Taught Us About Sex And Virginit: (Movies); Happy tenth anniversary, Twilight! Yep, that’s right, ten years ago last month, young girls were flooding theatres to watch Robert Pattinson creepily stalk Kristen Stewart...in her bedroom...before ...; Created on 05 December 2018
16. "Choose Your Own Disaster" Is A Love Letter To Women Who Are Still Figuring Stuff Ou: (Books); ... today! More from BUST Linda Kay Klein's "Pure" Shows The Lasting Consequences Of Growing Up In The White Evangelical Purity Movement Nadya Tolokonnikova's "Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide To Activism" ...; Created on 10 October 2018
17. "Pure" Shows The Lasting Consequences Of Growing Up In The White Evangelical Purity Movemen: (Books); ... that someone’s already sucked on? This is the type of metaphor at the root of the trauma author Linda Kay Klein experienced at the hands of the white evangelical purity movement. When she’s not immersing ...; Created on 08 October 2018
18. A Person's Right To Pleasur: (Feminism); ... to do the same. The purity of joy I felt at the nude beach was due not only to the physical feeling of being unencumbered, but to the permission granted by those around me relishing in the glory of their ...; Created on 27 September 2018
19. Before Crest Whitestrips, Victorians Used Sulfuric Acid: (Style); ... a day. As the 1873 book The Teeth and How to Save Them states: “To secure proper cleanliness, pleasant taste and purity of breath, the teeth ought to be cleansed five times a day; once after each meal, ...; Created on 26 September 2018
20. The Evolution of Masturbation For Vulva Owners: (Sex); I learned about masturbation from a girl I worked with at Painesville Dairy Queen in 1994. Jami was a few years older, 18 to my 15, and was the first girl I met who openly talked about self-love. The ...; Created on 31 August 2018

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