Will Smith: “We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can t...
According to a recent Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans who identify as “pro-choice” is at an all-time low of 41%. By contrast, 50% of Americans ID as pro-life. Of course, the pro-...
Online dating: The worst, or the absolute worst?
An incomplete list: Wedding Uggs. Man-jewelry (exceptions: watches and wedding bands). Wrap-around sunglasses (exception: you are a professional beach volleyball player).
Good news, criminals: You can sexually assault someone, get caught, decide you simply don’t feel like being questioned right at this moment and then walk free. Or at least those are the rules t...
A writer at Slate talks about undergoing IVF treatments in a lovely piece
As it is written, “Engage thyself not in coeducational sporting endeavors, lest thou get thine ass kicked by a gi-irl.” Instead of playing in a championship baseball game, Paige Sultzbach...
Welcome to the jungle. A few themes: Rue! Um, did other things happen? Oh, right: teenage bloodbath. Also: Peeta the ally of Careers, vs. Peeta who saved Katniss, vs. “Peeta!” she yelled ...
You know what to do.
It’s Thursday June 14th from 6-9pm at the Brooklyn Historical Society, and it honors Anita Hill. Go! All proceeds will go directly to support GGE’s ongoing work, which includes sexual har...
This is a guest post by Lyn. Lyn is a single mother, adoptee, birth/first mother and advocate for stronger family and parenting support initiatives. I have been dreaming. Dreaming and dreaming of cre...
This is a guest post by Laurie and Debbie. Debbie Notkin is a body image activist, a feminist science fiction advocate, and a publishing professional. She is chair of the motherboard of the Tiptree A...
A must-read by Matt Yglesias over at Slate: When it comes to early pregnancy, surprising new evidence indicates that Romney and most everyone else have it backward: Having a baby early does not hampe...
Because if you’re the majority, it probably stops making sense to call you a “minority.”
This is a guest post by Paul and Renee. Paul and Renee blog and review at Fangs for the Fantasy. We’re great lovers of the genre and consume it in all its forms – but as marginalised peop...
Oh I love this post so so so much.
It’s true — being a perfect feminist is a full-time job. That in itself is EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC.
Spawned on second base, but thought they rolled a double. From John Scalzi: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there ...
Bryce Covert has a fascinating article in the Nation right now about how baby-having can put you deep in debt — not just because babies are expensive, but because U.S. parental leave policies p...
That’s Roger Ebert’s argument. And listen, I love me some Roger Ebert, but this is a big piece of crap. His point basically comes down to, “Women are nurturing and wonderful and non...
UNITAID, a fantastic international health organization, is marking their fifth anniversary with a detailed and fascinating report. They use innovative financing to improve health care access and save...
Do it.
Because there are so many racist boyfriends to choose from! (“I’m not racist! I just appreciate ethnic women!” -all of the boyfriends).
We’re in the city now, and stuff’s startin’ to get real. A few themes: Katniss’s preparation (practically purification); the significance of individual appearance; culture sho...
This is a guest post by Lila. Lila is a non-American feminist and an activist for equality and human rights. Trigger warning for violence. “I want to make you happy”. That’s what he...
Give Alabama politician Bill Johnson an award for combining two of the Republican party’s favorite family values: traditional families, and being fruitful and multiplying. Wanting to keep his f...
This is the story of a video by eleven young women from the U.S.–almost exclusively white–who went to Thailand to save the “bar girls” to Jesus. “We found that we were t...
I think anyone who knows anything about Obama knew this would happen eventually, but assumed he was waiting for after the election. Good on him for coming out with this now. Less impressive the he wa...
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