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It’s Time for White Feminists to Stop Talking About Solidarity and Start Acting

I wasn’t always a feminist, let alone one with intersectional awareness and a politicised pride in my Blackness. When I first dove hungrily into feminism, starved as I was of any meaningful understanding of my life, it was the work of radical feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Germaine Greer that I devoured. I feasted on their anger for it spoke to me deeply but their messages didn’t nourish…

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Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement

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To discuss feminist theory, you first need to be able to visualize a roadmap of what the fuck feminism is. For just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality. Feminism itself is made up of lots of itty bitty (or super major) factions, although they aren’t necessarily at war; it’s also come a long way, and is…

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10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever

Presented by MOTRIN®, written by Autostraddle, in the spirit of celebrating unstoppable women everywhere.
Sometimes it’s hard to get out of bed, right? And other times it’s hard to push through that last mile, or take that personal or professional risk, or stay up to finish that project. You need an extra push to get you over that difficulty-bump. Maybe it’s coffee, or a personal mantra. Or…

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Slut-Shaming Becomes Even Grosser Than You Thought With Bonus Classism

“‘Good Girls’: Gender, Social Class and Slut Discourse on Campus” is a new study showing that slut-shaming is used between women to reinforce social class. “Good Girls” reminds us that patriarchy is not only a tool for men, but a tool for women with other privileged identities to use against women with marginalized identities. “We are unconvinced that women would engage so enthusiastically in…

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Brittney Griner, Gabourey Sibide, and Cara Delevingne Have The Perfect Pet Name for You This Sunday Funday

It’s Sunday Funday, and you know what that means! If you’re hungry like a hungry hungry hippo for a decent serving of qt queer news, you’ve come to the right place.
Brittney Griner Balls So Hard
Brittney Griner’s just tryin’ to play a good game — and she’s not gonna take bullshit about her uniform or her sexuality from anyone. Check out her interview with Mother Jones!
MJ: When the WNBA proposed…

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We Have Lots of Noise, We Need Lots of Solutions: Preventing Sexual Assault at (Every) American University

There was a running joke when I went to American University about Aprils. Every year, without fail, a scandalized incident would occur in our community related to sexual violence during that month. Every year, without fail, it would provoke a conversation. Every year — you get me by now, right? — it went nowhere.

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Rebel Girls: I Think Women’s Studies Saved My Life, And I Want It To Change Yours, Too

I think women’s studies saved my life, but I don’t know what that means. Maybe that I’m not good at anything else – that I failed at being normal, that I failed at falling into line, that I failed at being everyone else, that I’ll never talk to God. Maybe it means that the closest I will ever get to mightiness is uncovering everything that’s damaged me and smashing every surface standing in my way. Maybe it means nobody’s invented the right hero for me yet, or that I need to be a hero for someone else.
Maybe we should find out.

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National Poetry Month: Sonya Renee’s Body Is Not An Apology

Sonya Renee Taylor didn’t mean to become a poet, but once it happened she was unstoppable. She didn’t plan on creating an international body positivity movement, but today her project The Body Is Not An Apology reaches 100,000 people every week.
“There were no giant moments where it was clear that everything would change,” Sonya Renee explained. “There were tiny moments when I chose to do something and it might have been scary and then it changed the trajectory of my life.”

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RAINN’s Recommendations to College Campuses on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault Call For Fighting Violence with Violence

Earlier this year, RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, set out a set of national recommendations to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.
As someone who has worked at a campus resource for students affected by sexual and interpersonal violence for the entire time I’ve been an undergraduate, I was flabbergasted by the RAINN recommendations. The report…

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Party of Five: Pizza Feminism Creator, Autostraddle’s Own Intern Liz

Party of Five is a quick little ditty where we ask someone (anyone we want) five questions (any five questions we want) and they answer them. This doesn’t have to be necessarily ‘queer’ — it doesn’t have to be anything at all, except five questions and five answers. Today we’ve got Intern Liz, creator of the viral Pizza Feminism tumblr.
Quotes about feminism turned into quotes about pizza…

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Also.Also.Also: Saudi Women Are Over Paula Deen, Perez Hilton, and the Patriarchy and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello, Internet! My really adorable girlfriend is in my kitchen cooking for me right now and I feel #blessed.
Perez Hilton F*cking Sucks
Perez Hilton is not your sassy black friend and he needs to shut the f*ck up. When he tweeted “Inside every gay man is a fierce black woman!” he wasn’t expecting to get shut down.
https://twitter.com/BadFatBlackGirl/statuses/438409786401751040
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Read A F*cking Book: 5 Truths About Sex Work I Learned from “Playing The Whore”

For too long, groups on all sides of the sex work debates have excluded the opinions and voices of sex workers themselves – so Melissa Gira Grant has come forward with her own perspective in Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. In the new Jacobin Series paperback, Grant breaks down the discourse around sex work and smashes our notion of what the sex work industry looks like, reframing the…

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Also.Also.Also: Angel Haze and the Girl Scouts Are Taking On Texas and Other Stories We Missed This Week

It’s Wednesday and there are several things we haven’t talked about yet this week! Let’s get it started.
How Americans Ruined Russia
Homophobia in Russia didn’t just come from anyone. It came from us. Or, at least, it came from the slimiest motherfuckers among us.
In November 2010, Russia’s Sanctity of Motherhood organization kicked off its first-ever national conference. The theme, according to…

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Also.Also.Also: Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton Are Both Gunning to Be Ellen Page’s Next Lover and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hi, ramen noodles! Last night I came home, thought I lost my phone, enlisted three people to help me get it back, and then found it laying on my bed. Here’s the stories we missed this week while I was too drunk.
Russia Won’t Admit This Happened
+ A former member of the Italian Parliament who is also a trans woman was detained on her journey to the Sochi Olympics, but the Russian police have no…

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