In February 2012, I started seeing a therapist for depression and suicidal thoughts. While things had been pretty bad emotionally the few months before, depression is something that has been a part of my life since middle school. It came and went in waves throughout the years, and instead of seeking help, I learned that it was something that [...]
An Afghan rapper. The founder of the first primary school for girls in a Kenyan village. A trailblazing member of Congress who fights to create an AIDS-free generation. An advocate for women’s and children’s rights and empowerment. Tonite in Los Angeles, the Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms.) will award these four women with its [...]
It’s important for young feminists to be involved in the fight for women’s rights both at home and abroad. This general assembly was moderated by the Global Programs Director of Feminist Majority Foundation, Anushay Hossain. Hossain discussed the importance of ratifying CEDAW in the United States, to take a stand for women and girls around [...]
Forgive this corny segue, but I thought of it and now I can’t resist: Cycles abound in environmentalism. There’s the water cycle, the recycling system, and cycling to work to reduce one’s carbon footprint. There’s a fourth kind of cycle that doesn’t get the press it should, however, and that’s the menstrual cycle. Mother Jones [...]
I am a Virginian through and through – I was born here, raised here, educated here, and I have worked here for all of my twenty two years. I love this commonwealth (not state; that’s right, I know VA’s quirks) with all of my heart, but I can’t trust it when it comes to reproductive [...]
When I arrived at the FMF office last Friday, I had no idea that I was going to spend my afternoon participating in a counter protest for the annual anti-choice March for Life. If I had known, I might have prepared for the January weather better and made a protest sign of my own. [...]
We did it! Our wonderful, dedicated Campus Team organizers helped Florida voters defeat Amendment 6, which would have endangered women’s lives by restricting access to abortion and would have deleted from the Florida constitution a right to privacy clause that guarantees women’s access to abortion and birth control. It could have banned health insurance from [...]
In a satirical response to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s extreme anti-abortion views and strong support for the outrageous restrictions on clinics called Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, or TRAP laws, a group of Virginia feminists created a campaign called Cooch Watch. Here’s their description: The Cooch has been keeping an eye on your vagina, [...]
Yesterday, Gabby Douglas made gymnastics history becoming the first African American gymnast to win the coveted gold medal as an all-around gymnast and the first gymnast to win gold in both the team and all-around in the same Olympics. She is also only the second African American gymnast to make it on the U.S Women’s [...]
Yesterday, the preventive health services portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or Obamacare, went into effect. The PPACA states that birth control is in fact a preventive health service, therefore requiring insurance companies to cover it without co-pays or deductibles. This means birth control with no co-pays y’all! This is a [...]
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