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Eliminating the Wedge
A couple of weeks ago, I was having a conversation with my mother about my organizing work. We chatted, and I told her about my current work with Eliminating the Wedge, which is a group in Albany that...
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Getting to Know The Coathangers: A Bitchtopia Interview
The Coathangers is an Atlanta-based band made up by Meredith Franco (Minnie), Julia Kugel (Crook Kid), and Stephanie Luke (Rusty).What makes them stand out from other similar bands is the fact that...
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Consent is Crucial
lwilson-illustration.co.uk BDSM has been in the media a bit more than usual recently thanks to the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey. While it’s great to see it being talked about more, Fifty Shades...
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But Where Are All The Feminists?
By now you have probably heard about or watched what happened in McKinney, Texas. You’ve seen the horrific images of a teenage girl, Dejerria Becton, in her bathingsuit, being pinned to the ground and...
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Fattitude’s Big Fat Summer of Love
My favorite days in school were when you’d walk into the classroom and see a TV already rolled in to the front of the room. You knew you wouldn’t have to answer questions for the day, only sink in and...
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Photos by Emma Jones: A Beautiful Little Fool
It is easy to recognize society’s censorship of the female body: the preference for cinematic exposure to violence over nudity, the constant media scrutiny of successful women, the blatantly sexist...
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Featured Artist: Anna Webb
An excerpt from In the Bones Mother Last night, Her baby boy Became a murderer. He took a life so beautiful, It looked like the dresses little girls Wear to church on Easter morning, With lace daisies...
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Grasping Intersectionality, One Photo At A Time
I discovered feminism through photography. Whilst my beliefs were already set in place, I never had a label for it. I was dissatisfied with the same landscapes and “indie” object photography that my...
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That’s Not My Name
lwilson-illustration.co.uk I’m not your ‘sweetheart’… Or your ‘darling’, or your ‘honey’, or your ‘babe’… Start addressing women with respect.
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What Marriage Equality Means: The Silenced Voices of Violence
In a ruling with a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has declared same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. All over the United States, cis gender gays, lesbians and their allies will be celebrating because,...
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FIFA World Cup and the Importance of Female Athletes
The FIFA World Cup is upon us, but ask the average sports fan, or really anyone watching tv and they probably will be surprised to learn that there is a World Cup this year. In the past, the months...
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Girls Need our Support, Not Our Silence
“What’s that there?” A grandmother points to her granddaughter’s belly. The girl is large. This is not an insult. She is very tall, very strong looking. Everything about this body exudes capability and...
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Cruella DeVille
my mother named it Cruella DeVille when i could not find the words to describe the elephants that were sitting on my chest crushing my bones and squeezing the very life out of me my doctor named it...
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I Promised You I Wouldn’t Say This
I woke up at my parents’ house in the room we used to fool around in. Your sister’s Facebook told me that you are graduating this week. Four years seems to have gone by so fast, and yet the number four...
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Variations
Though I Vary by Layla So Through this piece and upcoming series, I’m attempting to shine a brief light on the infinite complexity that is gender and identity. Gender is a tough subject to tackle....
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Know Your Own Anatomy: Not All That Glitters is Gold
I never fail to laugh when my boyfriend tells me the story of when he discovered that the female anatomy had *gasp* not one genital orifice— but two. However, it made me question how in depth I knew my...
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Unwanted Attention
TW: the content of this post is at moments graphic and personal and could be triggering to those who have lived through sexual assault. My mother says he sat down next to her in the back of the bus....
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No Means No
by Esperanza M You’re not entitled to anyone’s body, and no one is entitled to your body. Others’ boundaries are valid and so are yours. Please don’t forget: consent and respect are everything. You...
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Diasporic Love
i see you to be seen is to be heard to be heard is to be loved and i love you i love you from my veins to my memories that carry this trauma these stories this diaspora i feel you our histories entwine...
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Trigger Warnings: Do Guidelines Prevent Healing?
In her book, Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay discusses everything from Scrabble tournaments to her thoughts on The Help. One essay within the book, The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion, discusses the...
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