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Barneys New York Pays $525,000 in an Attempt To Be Less Racist

Barneys New York has been fined $525,000 by New York State Attorney General’s office as a settlement in its racial profiling lawsuit. The suit was in response to several incidences in which brown and black customers of Barneys were pursued, cuffed and detained under grounds of suspicion of credit card fraud and/or shoplifting.
After a nine month investigation, the retailer was found guiltyof…

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Oh Hey, Kissing Girls and Lesbian Drama On “Masters Of Sex”

You guys, I’m really sorry I haven’t talked about this yet but I really thought nobody else was watching Masters of Sex this season but me! A couple of weeks ago, Sarah Silverman tweeted about wanting someone to talk about it with and I felt that deeply because I thought I was all alone, but then this past week I realized that she’s actually a character on the show.
Watch Masters Of Sex tonight…

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Calls for ICE to #FreeMarichuy After Failing to Respond to Report of Sexual Assault

Marichuy Leal Gaminogrew up undocumented in Phoenix, Arizona and dreams of attending cosmetology school. For over a year, she has been detained at the Eloy Detention Center, a men’s detention facility run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), in Eloy, Arizona. Gamino is transgender, and she has reported being raped by her cellmate. CCA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have…

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The Facts on Ferguson: What’s Happened and How You Can Help

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The collective QPOC Speakeasy has responded to the Mike Brown’s killing and the events in Ferguson here. Please read & share their powerful words!
What Happened Here?
On Saturday afternoon, Mike Brown was murderedby a Ferguson police officer. He was unarmed. His death, just the latest in a dizzying list of black people killed by the police just in 2014, inspired national mourning and righteous anger.

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When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents

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Surrogacy affords many people an alternative way to bring a child into the world. Whether a person is infertile or cannot deliver a baby without medical risk, or a couple is biologically unable to reproduce together without medical intervention — as may be the case for some queer couples — surrogacy enables a person with a uterus to carry a child on behalf of the…

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When Misogynistic Trolls Attack: Why Jezebel’s Gawker Call-Out Is Important

With a small number of exceptions, the rage-inducing comments sections of the web come with the territory of being online at all. However, as Jezebel reported yesterday, someone has taken trolling to a new level of viciousness: “For months, an individual or individuals has been using anonymous, untraceable burner accounts to post gifs of violent pornography in the discussion section of stories on…

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Clinical Trials on Trial: Medical Studies Still Exclude Women and People of Color to Dangerous Degree

If you consider yourself a feminist — or even if you don’t like the label but do like equality — the Health Equity and Accountability Act is a thing that you should care about.
Not familiar? Here’s the rundown:
As you’re no doubt aware, per the patriarchy, the “default” population our society caters to is white men.
When this pattern is repeated in medical research, we wind up with clinical…

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Legendary Boxing Manager and Promoter Kellie Maloney Comes Out as a Trans Woman

Boxing is considered by many to be a great bastion of maleness and masculinity, but that wasn’t enough to stop Kellie Maloney from living the life she knew that she had to. In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, the legendary boxing manager and promoter came out and revealed that she has been undergoing hormone therapy and taking other steps in her transition for the past two years. At the…

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#Fatkini Makes Waves for Body Positivity on Social Media

As a fat woman, I often struggle to love my body and find clothes that I feel look good on it. This is especially true when it comes to swimsuits. In fact, I was so ashamed of my body, that I didn’t wear a swimsuit for about ten years. Only recently have I been coming around and starting to learn to love my fat and wear the clothes that I want to in public. The one thing I’m still struggling with…

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19 Year-Old Renisha McBride’s Killer Convicted on Three Counts

On November 2, 2013 in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, 19-year-old Renisha McBride knocked on Theodore Wafer’s door in the middle of the night, lost and seeking help. Wafer shot her in the head. Today, he was found guilty of all three charges brought against him: second-degree murder, manslaughter and felony firearm.
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Wafer’s testimonies of what happened that night are inconsistent — he…

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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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IFP’s “Fresh Faces" Highlights So Many Rad Female Indie Filmmakers

IFP’s “Fresh Faces” Highlights So Many Rad Female Indie Filmmakers

The most recent report from the Women’s Media Centerpaints a painful picture of the representation of women in all sectors of the media. Newsroom staffs consist of less than 40% women. Women are outnumbered 3-to-1 in op-eds in the most influential newspapers. 90% of sports journalists are men. In the top 100 money-earning films of 2012, less than 30% of the speaking roles were women.In the top…

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Trans Teen Stabbed on D.C. Metro, Follows String of Violence Against Trans Women

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Following a recent string of violence against trans women of color in the D.C. area, a 15 year-old trans girl was stabbed in the back this Wednesday while she was riding a Metro train with some of her teenage friends.
One of her friends related the story that the man came up to her on the train and began making fun of her appearance and asking questions like, “Are…

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