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Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies

Illustrated by Rory Midhani
Women’s studies. What the fuck is that? I want to show you today a short explanation of how today’s most feminist classrooms came to be — but first, let’s define the damn thing.
Let’s stick with the Wikipedia definition. (I always loved encyclopedias. Remember Encarta? Good times, y’all.)
Women’s studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary…

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This is Beyoncé/Nicki Minaj Femslash

July 27th. Winnipeg, Canada
Don’t ask me how I remember where we are. This On the Run tour tests me. It tests every move I’ve ever made, every run I’ve ever sang. Every No, no, no, no, no and all the gotdamns.
I’m everywhere and nowhere.
May 5th blew up. Elevator this, divorce that. I knew that night when all that shit was going down that things in the Bey-Rock Nation were going to change. It’s…

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If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come

Feature image via unpackingthebookstore.org
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett. Today is the last day for their Indiegogo campaign, so both before and after you…

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Orange Is The New Black Episode 206 Recap: Poussey Glorious Poussey

Hello and welcome to the sixth recap of the second season of Orange is The New Black, a show about this girl Poussey we all have crushes on. Once again you might notice that I am not, in fact, your style icon Kate Severance, because she’s had to hang up her hat this season due to a brutal work schedule. We’ll have a variety of recappers filling in over the next few weeks, but this episode is mine…

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Also.Also.Also: Inclusive Feminism, Girl Power Advertising and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello lovely readers! This week I turned 21! Here’s the news we missed while I was celebrating my birthday at a queer poetry open mic night.
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Do you get the Portlandia reference? I hope you do. Anyway, here are some current events about sports and LGBTQ people.
+ Even though this year has seen many notable LGBT athletes come out and receive positive…

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Get Baked: Margarita Butterfruit Cookies

In some parts of the world, avocados are called butterfruit. The good thing about this name is that it provides a sneaky way to name your cookies without people realizing that there’s avocado in them until after they’ve eaten one and fallen in love with it.
Because let’s get real: some people are grossed out by the idea of sweet avocados. They love their guacamole and avocado toast but HEAVEN…

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You Should Go: The Monument Quilt Is Building Supportive Communities for Survivors Across the Nation

The first-ever public monument to survivors is hitting the road. And I am absolutely recommending that you bear witness it.
The Monument Quilt is a project by the Baltimore-based art collective FORCE, who you might recognize from the notorious (fake) Victoria’s Secret Pink Loves Consent collection and the just-as-notorious (fake) Playboy Party Tips that advocated sex-positive and affirmative sex

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LGBT Youth Also Need To Hear “I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault”

By now, you’ve maybe already heard about the Tumblr “I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault,” a new blog dedicated to collecting stories and narratives from survivors of childhood, teen, and young adult sexual assault. It is meant to be a vulnerable, open-submission, storytelling outreach initiative to connect with young survivors in a “Big Sister” way.
In the page’s FAQ, it goes into detail about…

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Negotiators Lie Through Their Teeth To Women, Study Shows

In a study published this month in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, UC Berkeley and UPenn researchers examined the role that gender plays in deceptive negotiations. Surprise, surprise: women get shortchanged more frequently than men. But this isn’t because women are worse at negotiating than men. As it turns out, everyone is just way more comfortable targeting…

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Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists

In a recent essay on her bibliomania, Zadie Smith writes that summer is the most forgiving time of year for compulsive reading, as “the beach is one of the few places pathological readers can pass undetected among their civilian cousins.”
Regardless of the degree of your pathology, these brand-new and forthcoming books look both super exciting and also relevant to your interests. With essays, a…

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Movie Review: In “Breastmilk,” Women’s Bodies Are Still Not Their Own

“If someone is having trouble with breastfeeding, I think I would not want to make them feel worse about it because they made that decision to feed from a formula, but it’s not a choice that I would make for myself.”
Those are the words of Colleen, an American biologist nine months pregnant during an interview with the makers of “Breastmilk,”a new documentary on what, how and why we feed our…

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11 Female Superheroes I Wish Marvel Would Make Movies About

by rory midhani
Watching Guardians of the Galaxy this past weekend was definitely a blast, but even as I was watching Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillankick total ass and look super amazing on the screen, I couldn’t help but think about what a wasted opportunity it was. I mean, if they’re going to go through the trouble of introducing the alien race the Kree (which is where the original Captain Marvel…

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