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All Hail the Miley Shaming
I’m disgusted with myself: for a hot minute I cared what a privileged white girl putting on black face for the world via tongue-out twerking, gigantic teddy bears and an awfully made latex bikini meant...
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Fight On, Dusten Brown, for Baby Veronica
Almost seventeen years ago, I placed my daughter with an adoptive family in an “open” adoption. Back in the late ’90s, an open adoption – at least in my case – meant I would receive pictures up until...
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These Tea Party Brats Need a Backpack Leash
Tea Party Republicans, giddy over a government shutdown, look like a bunch of foolish children at the maniacal hour before bedtime when all the crazies of the day come out and, before sleepy eyes...
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Meet the Prayerful Rock Star of the Government Shutdown
A rock star has emerged clad in colorful bow ties and speaking truth to power through prayer. This is what “rocking” looks like in the uncoolest of uncool places: the Senate floor amid a government...
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Here’s A Thought: Lower Your Lena Dunham Expectations and Do You
Image via Not That Kind of Girl Facebook page Lena Dunham, creator of the TV show “Girls” and best-selling memoirist, is like a yard sale: someone else’s trash is another person’s treasure and whether...
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We Need Kim Kardashian and Her Full Frontal Feminism
Say what you will about Kim’s Kardashian’s spread in Paper Magazine — and the criticism has been well deserved linking the images shot by Jean-Paul Goude to Sarah Baartman–but Kardashian has found a...
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#CrimingWhileWhite: White Guilt on Display With the Same Consequences
Image via Aimee LeBlanc/Flickr/CC License After a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict the police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who administered the chokehold that killed Eric Garner, “nice white...
View ArticleThe ‘Misogyny Thunderdome’ of Football Just Happened in Philadelphia And It...
In Philadelphia, the dead week between the end of the NFL playoffs and the Super Bowl needed something. And for the past twenty-three years that “something” has been Wing Bowl — a beer-infused,...
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‘I Jiggle Therefore I Am’ is the Ad We Should Have Watched Instead of ‘Run...
Leading up to the Super Bowl I caught wind there’d be an ad campaign about “running like a girl.” The point: there’s nothing inherently wrong with moving your legs quickly while girling. You know, girl...
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Sleater-Kinney Partners With Planned Parenthood for Upcoming Tour — Continues...
In the ten years since Sleater-Kinney disbanded, the band’s popularity has only increased, and now they’re going on tour with Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood has done this before, most notably...
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You’ll Remember Leonard Nimoy As Spock. I’ll Remember Him As a ‘Love Your...
LEONARD NIMOY/R. MICHELSON GALLERIES Leonard Nimoy has died at the age of 83. He’ll always be remembered for playing Star Trek’s Spock, the beloved Vulcan with a wicked eyebrow arch and extended...
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25 AOL Screen Names Hillary Clinton Should Have Used at the State Department
Nuclear Winter. That’s the way Jason R. Baron, a former lawyer for the National Archives, described Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account while conducting government business as Secretary...
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Patricia Arquette Got It Right This Time and Nailed Her Speech On Fair Pay
In the scheme of celebrity feminism, I think Patricia Arquette’s disastrous backstage speech at the Academy Awards on pay equality will eventually become a verb. Think: Oh, she just “Arquetted” all...
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Is Lego Beauty Trolling Our Daughters?
If you’re a woman or girl, you’ve been “beauty trolled.” It doesn’t matter if you’re between the ages of five and 12, in your mid-thirties like comedian Amy Schumer, or a “real woman” with the yoga...
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Rolling Stone Just Put Feminist and Advocate Kurt Cobain on Their UVA Report...
The editors at Rolling Stone, by putting Kurt Cobain on their cover announcing the findings of the Columbia School of Journalism’s report regarding their discredited and badly reported University of...
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