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Forget "Camping Trips"—Here's How to Actually Help Women Get the Abortion Care They Desperately Ne
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(Feminism)
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... same message: “If you are a person who suddenly finds yourself with a need to go camping in another state friendly toward camping, just know that I will happily drive you, support you, and not talk about ...
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Created on 17 January 2023
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Beth Ditto Talks Switch To Acting, and Latest Role In The Country Music Drama "Monarch." Plus, New Music From Gossip? ...
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(TV)
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... in which she seems to have asked herself, “Well, why not?” before plunging forward into fields where she has no formal training but is still able to go pro with surprising speed. “What Would Beth Ditto ...
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Created on 12 September 2022
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Kehlani Is Confronted by Ranting Conservative Influencer, and Their Unfazed Response is Just Too Cool
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(Music)
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... drink. Singer and current BUST covergirl Kehlani certainly expected nothing more as they waited in the Starbucks drive-thru—that is, until conservative influencer and self-described “free-speech radicalist” ...
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Created on 14 July 2022
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Fiona Apple Is Using Her Star Power For An Urgent Legal Cause—And She Wants Your Help
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(Feminism)
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... chairman Luke Clippinger to make that happen—hence the video.
A self-proclaimed phone-phobic herself, she urges fans to push past it. “I’ve done it already, and I have phone phobia. So if I can do it, ...
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Created on 18 March 2022
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Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
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(Entertainment)
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... thin and also not trying to lose weight. Folks act genuinely confounded that I’m not calorie counting, avoiding carbs, or even just hating myself out loud. But…how could I hate someone as sexy as I am?” ...
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Created on 14 March 2022
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Janelle Monae's "The Memory Librarian" Tackles Afrofuturism, Plus a Deep Dive Into Witchcraft, and a Memoir From an Indigenous Pu
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(Books)
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... truly nothing she can’t do.
The Afrofuturistic collection expands on her hit 2018 album-turned-“emotion picture,” Dirty Computer, which dealt with themes of sexuality and self-expression. Collaborating ...
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Created on 10 March 2022
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How “Jennifer's Body" Smashed Its Way Through The Male Gaze And Into Queer, Feminist Cult Statu
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(Movies)
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... world at large.”
The film’s title itself was intended as an ironic commentary on female objectification, but this became lost in the many ads and posters highlighting Megan Fox’s body and sexuality as ...
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Created on 25 October 2021
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“With her eyes still open, she touched herself for a minute and a half, came noiselessly”: Sally Rooney Depicts Female Sexuality, Bi-sexuality, Intellectual Women, and Mental Illness in New Book “Beautiful ...
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(Books)
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... dirty phone calls whereby she takes the upper hand by persuading him to imagine sleeping with a duteous wife who seems quite the opposite of herself. “The wife would give you head,” she tells Simon. “Which ...
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Created on 20 October 2021
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Texas Abortion Ban: What the F*ck is Up With This New Law That Turns Everyday People Into Bounty Hunters? Here's the Facts, No Bullsh*
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(Feminism)
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... abortion ban has been weaseling its way around Roe vs Wade, so much so that the Supreme Court itself can’t even get a handle on it! Has the news around this bullshit law confused you? Same. So, let's talk ...
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Created on 30 September 2021
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Not Their Bodies, Not Their Choice: Conservative Republicans Push For an Overturn of Roe v. Wade
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(Feminism)
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... advocates who saw the once looming threat of conservative action against Roe as becoming an actuality.
These two developments: both the Mississippi case itself and the Republican response to it represent ...
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Created on 29 July 2021
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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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... have ended up somewhere much worse.”
Walking into these vegetarian houses, British anthropologist Topley found self-sufficient communities growing their own fruits and vegetables on their own plots ...
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Created on 17 May 2021
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Does Netflix's Upcoming Season Of "Master Of None" Hide Behind Queer Black Women To Sell Audiences A Dying Sho
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(TV)
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... season one and two protagonist Dev (a semi-autobiographical character based on Ansari himself), the show will now revolve around Lena Waithe’s beloved character Denise. The trailer surfaced online yesterday ...
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Created on 27 April 2021
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In The Wake Of The Vanessa Guillén and Asia Graham Cases, Here's What Is Being Done To Address Sex Crimes in the U.S. Militar
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(Feminism)
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The United States military prides itself on protecting the nation and preserving tradition. The prevalence of sexual assault cases in the armed forces, however, reflects a struggle to protect its own ...
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Created on 14 April 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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... “spermicide,” especially when used in reference to a Lysol solution that could “spread” and “search out germs in deep crevices.” With the FDA not involving itself in matters of female troubles at the time, ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Controversial Medusa Statue Reimagines Her Myth and Reignites Conversations Around #MeToo
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(Arts)
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... this reimagined Medusa is an independent agent, acting in self-defense.
Feminist theorists (see: Hélène Cixous) argue that men's retelling of Medusa narrative is driven by fear of women’s agency. This ...
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Created on 14 October 2020
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Charlize Theron Opens Up About How Women Are "Unfairly" Treated In The Action Genr
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(Movies)
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... To me, heroes put their head down, they do the work. I have an affinity for that. I like that. I want the characters I play to be someone that we sit in the cinema and say, ‘yeah, I see myself there,’” ...
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Created on 30 July 2020
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Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
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(Feminism)
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... is giving birth.
Survived and Punished adds that domestic violence in itself is reproductive violence, citing that 324,000 women each year report sexual or physical abuse by intimate partners.
Reproductive ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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Chrystul Kizer, A Teenager Sentenced For Killing Her Alleged Trafficker, Is Out Of Jail On A $400,000 Bond
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(General)
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... move was in self-defense, claiming that Volar had been abusing and trafficking her to other men for over a year, since she was 16 years old. The two met on Backpage, a sex work website recently taken down ...
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Created on 26 June 2020
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We Still Can’t Tell If The Name Of Grimes and Elon Musk’s Baby Is Real Or Not
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(Entertainment)
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... about Musk, Grimes and X Æ A-12 have begun to circulate:
X Æ A-12 after being born be like: pic.twitter.com/xYW7XuQAYJ
— Lucifer (@s10nz) May 6, 2020
X Æ A-12 introducing himself to the midwife ...
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Created on 06 May 2020
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What We Can Learn From Alicia Keys' Memoir “More Myself”
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(Books)
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MORE MYSELF: A Journey Alicia Keys (Macmillan)
In her memoir, More Myself: A Journey, Alicia Keys asks two important questions: “Who am I really? And, as I discover my true essence, am I brave enough ...
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Created on 20 April 2020