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Five Women Sue Texas Over Confusing Abortion Bans
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(Feminism)
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... not only discovered she was pregnant with twins, but also that one of her fetuses had trisomy 18, a condition that results in several structural abnormalities that lower the chance of survival for a fetus. ...
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Created on 09 March 2023
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Yellowjackets Season 2 is Set to Premiere March 24: All Bow Down to the Antler Queen!
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(TV)
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... (read: possible cannibalism) of survival play out over ten-episodes, we also follow the present day lives of the survivors, 25 years after the fact.
The official second-season trailer confirms that trauma ...
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Created on 09 March 2023
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5 Killer Punk Bands to Add to Your “Feminist Rage” Playlist
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(Music)
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... participants, is “to fight for, defend, and celebrate the survival” of LGBTQIA+ people, people of color, women, and “any and all other folks who have to constantly face violence, marginalization, and oppression.” ...
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Created on 31 January 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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... but Superfan proves that she is greater than the sum of her parts. –Shannon Carlin
THE SURVIVALISTS: A Novel
By Kashana Cauley
(Soft Skull Press)
We might all be survivors, but we’re not all ...
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Created on 24 January 2023
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Why Cold Water Swimming is the Healing Practice You Need to Try this New Year
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(Living)
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... have kept my head firmly above water. Swimming can enable survival in ways beyond the physical.” That feeling can be amplified in the cold, and even just a dip in the height of winter is enough to put ...
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Created on 22 December 2022
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Nikyatu Jusu's Sundance Prize-Winning "Nanny" Shows the Real Horrors of the American Dream: BUST Revi
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(Movies)
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Nanny is a story of survival, grief, and isolation beautifully told by writer/director Nikyatu Jusu in her feature-length debut. Aisha (Anna Diop) is a Senegalese immigrant working for an upper-middle-class ...
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Created on 06 December 2022
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How Menopause Helped This Life Long People-Pleaser Boss Up, And Stop Giving A D*mn
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(Feminism)
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... in relation to children who suffer certain kinds of abuse: “Servitude, ingratiation, and forfeiture of any needs that might inconvenience and ire the parent become the most important survival strategies ...
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Created on 12 October 2022
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8.
Demi Lovato’s New Album is an Unapologetic Ode to Her Rock and Roll Roots.
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(Music)
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Other songs on the album include very personal subjects such as her battles with drug addiction, particularly in the song “Skin of my Teeth.” Lovato brings to light her recent and very public survival ...
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Created on 16 September 2022
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"Legends of Drag" Pays Homage To Drag Icons "Of A Certain Age" Who Paved The Way For The Queens of Today ...
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(Books)
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... of survival, and ones that need to be relayed and heard. From the trans women that started the Compton Cafeteria Riots and the Stonewall Inn Uprising (hey Marsha) that catapulted the gay liberation movement, ...
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Created on 21 June 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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... writer from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes, in her “ancestral autobiography,” Red Paint. The Pacific-Northwest native’s story is one of survival, having first endured sexual abuse at a young ...
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Created on 10 March 2022
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For The Gworls is a Black-Trans Led Collective That Creates Curated Parties and Events to Fundraise For Black Trans Lives
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(Feminism)
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... careful to provide services that fulfill our basic as well as spiritual and emotional needs, all of which are very important towards survival while we dream of — and create — environments to thrive in ...
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Created on 16 November 2021
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12.
United Nations Annual Climate Conference Recognizes Women As Trailblazers of Climate Action
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(Feminism)
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... from the elderly to pregnant mothers, in transporting goods and traveling long distances to access means for survival. Environmental sustainability, however, encompasses accessibility beyond resource collection ...
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Created on 11 November 2021
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Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
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(Feminism)
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... do this work.”
Part of telling her story is opening up about the ways in which people she loves, or has loved, have failed her. “It’s not just the founding of the movement; it’s also my survival story,” ...
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Created on 14 September 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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their youths, further glorifying and commodifying them, Van Doren would not, outliving the combined ages of both Monroe and Mansfield decades ago. Her survival has spared her legacy the tacky adorations ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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15.
What Exactly Is The Return of Saturn?
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(Living)
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... this critical juncture in their lives. My book, “Saturn Return Survival Guide: Navigating this Cosmic Rite of Passage,” is great for those going through their first, second, or third Saturn Return to understand ...
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Created on 04 June 2021
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Comedian Skye Townsend Discusses Her Big Break Starring In Season 2 Of "A Black Lady Sketch Show" And More: BUST Intervie
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(TV)
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... a tool of survival, it’s no wonder she’s caught her big break as a core cast member on the groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated program that is HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show.
Los Angeles born and raised, ...
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Created on 27 May 2021
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17.
TV Writer Danielle Henderson Gets Personal With Her New Memoir, "The Ugly Cry": BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... of humor? I can’t help it! That was a survival instinct that I learned very early on. I think I give those subjects as much gravity as I do humor, but I definitely think some of the things that happened ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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18.
Sometimes you have to get lost to get found. Get lost in 'Iphigenia Murphy
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(Sponsored)
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... about abandonment, abuse, homelessness, and survival. Readers of Kody Keplinger’s Run and Tiffany D. Jackson’s Monday’s Not Coming will want to add Iphigenia Murphy to their feminist-centric fiction list. ...
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Created on 07 May 2021
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HBO's New Documentary "TINA" Mishandles Tina Turner's Farewell To Life In The Public
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(Movies)
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... wasn’t an overwhelming reinvestment in Turner’s artistry until her survival story molded her into someone the public found worthy of rooting for. She escaped one abuser only to become entrapped in a lifelong ...
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Created on 30 March 2021
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Get In Loser, We're Going Foragin
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(Living)
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In the Survival Skills for Badass Bitches series, writer Melanie LaForce walks you through everything you need to know to survive the outdoors, tough situations, and/or the forthcoming apocalypse. ...
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Created on 25 February 2021