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Ann is on vacation this week so we won't be having our regular Weekly Feminist Reader, but let's consider this an open thread; please feel free to contribute this week and weekend's stories we may have missed in comments!
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Ann Coulter
This weekly Saturday column "Ask Professor Foxy" will regularly contain sexually explicit material. This material is likely not safe for work viewing. The title of the column will include the major topic of the post, so please read the topic when deciding whether or not to read the entire ...
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Regular readers will have noticed that in recent months, Feministing has brought in a number of new contributors: Ariel, Jos, Lori, Rose Afriye and myself. No doubt you're getting to know them by reading their posts and engaging with their ideas in the comments section, but I also suspect that ...
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Sexual harassment is a big problem on the NYC subway.
Just a sad story about a young man released from prison after wrongfully serving 17 years for a murder he didn't commit.
Students at UC Berkeley are striking because US Regents has approved a 32% tuition increase.
A study from ...
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**Also, something I didn't mention-a shout out to my undergraduate adviser at the Women's Studies Department at SUNY Albany, Vivien Ng , who I saw after 10 years and facilitated me in finding my feminist courage to speak on intersectionality.
This weeks Friday Feministing Fuck Yeah ...
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The focus of Transgender Day of Remembrance is on those killed by others because of anti-trans fear and hatred. However, it is worth noting that too many trans folks lose their lives to suicide as well. The number of trans folks who have attempted suicide ranges from about 30 percent to over 50 ...
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[Editor's Note] I haven't seen Precious yet, but I have read about it endlessly and already cried just reading reviews. One of the most powerful interpretations I have read so far on Precious comes from my good friend, colleague and mentor Malkia Cyril from the Center for Media Justice . With ...
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What a sad state of affairs. Well, I disagree Kate! But then again, I don't make millions off of being thin, so I guess starving does feel good for her, since she is paid to do it. Seriously, sad! Food is good and we need it to survive.
This makes me feel sad for Kate Moss, I mean, even ...
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Courtney mentioned in yesterday's What We Missed that the Senate HCR bill does not have the same vicious right-wing vitriol of the Stupak-Coathanger Amendment. mcjoan at DailyKos has a full break down of some of the key provisions in the Capp Amendment which is replacing the Stupak-Pitt ...
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Bart Stupak
Bud Day
Health care
Washington, D.C
Today is the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance . This day was created as a time to grieve trans and gender non-conforming people killed over the past year because of fear and hatred. It also serves as a time to raise awareness about violence against trans folks. The event was started ...
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Bud Day
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care overhaul package, released last night, doesn't throw women under the bus.
Jessica Wakeman over at The Frisky : "Really, Vogue? I don't care that Clinton does her own makeup and (still) wears brightly colored pantsuits."
"A Zambian newspaper ...
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Harry Reid
I just went to a really cool event at the Brooklyn Museum of Art where Kiki Smith, artist, and, Catherine J. Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, had a conversation about Smith's work, it's intersections with feminism, themes of the body, the personal as ...
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Lamar Smith
I got so many amazing emails after publishing my column last week about masculinity and pro-feminist men and plenty of blogs picked up on the analysis and added their own, as well. I wanted to share some of the excerpts here:
From Joe Samalin and Joseph Vess of Men Can Stop Rape:
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File this under WTF. From the New York Times :
The 200 women who answered a Rome modeling agency's advertisement for tall, attractive party guests thought they would be attending an elegant soirée on Sunday. They were -- only the host turned out to be the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar ...
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The Women's Media Center (WMC) and Girls Learn International are collaborating to launch Girls Investigate: Our Views on Media , a four-part multimedia series that explores girls' ideas about popular culture, social media and the intersections between the two.
Check out the first one:
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In Tuesday's What We Missed , we briefly mentioned the new USPST mammogram guidelines, which now recommend that women begin getting regular mammograms at age 50 rather than at 40, and that the frequency be reduced from annual to once every two years.
The guidelines have been criticized for ...
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Alright folks, I just finished round IV in this wild Washington Post Next Great American Pundit Contest. This time we had to do a panel on video with Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart (who was awesome).
This is the second to last round, so please hang in there with me and spread the ...
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Huffington Post
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Finkel has written a truly heart breaking book about the war that just won't end in Iraq. In The Good Soldiers , he follows the 2-16, a battalion of army infantry soldiers nicknamed the Rangers, as they head into "the surge" in January of 2007. He follows them as ...
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Oprah Winfrey
Iraq
A great take-down of Palin's Oprah appearance from Richard Kim , co-editor of the newly released Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare .
I keep hearing about "female Viagra," but never seem to see it anywhere...
Creepiest. Phone. Ever.
I've started writing a bit on my ...
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Sarah Palin
If you're sick of hearing about Sarah Palin's new biography, Going Rogue: An American Life , consider checking out the anthology, Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare .
Edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed of The Nation , Going Rouge is like the liberal intervention to Palin's ...
