As president of the University of Maryland’s Feminists for Sexual Health club and a soon-to-be campus sexual assault prevention peer educator, my senior year is going to be dominated by one question: What can I do to stop sexual assault on campus? I’ve been thinking about it a lot this summer and I’ve come to [...]
By Molly Bryant, Feminist Majority Foundation Intern This is Molly reporting here from Fargo, North Dakota for my first ever campaign. During my sophomore year of college (aka last year…) I was taken on as an intern with the Campus Choices Program for the Feminist Majority Foundation. Awaiting my quickly approaching start date, I received [...]
Guest post by Boston University Center for Gender, Sexuality & Activism This Friday, students at Boston University are taking back the night. The Feminist Collective, a group that meets under the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism at Boston University, are hosting a Take Back the Night march and rally on BU’s campus. Take Back [...]
Guest Post by Lauren Eiten, NOW Field Intern Nearly every woman at some point in her life has hated or wanted to change her body for one reason or another. Reports indicate that 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their appearance, and seven million women and girls struggle with an eating disorder in the [...]
Guest post by Megan Smith, Founder, Repeal Hyde Art Project In 2009 while working as a phone counselor at an abortion fund in Philadelphia, I was amazed, heartbroken, and consumed by the stories that I heard on the phone: amazed that people in modern America do not have access to safe, legal, [...]
by Bettina Hager, National Women’s Political Caucus One commonly noted sign of progress in the gender equality battle is that women now make up the majority–yes that is more than 50%–of college students. This is an enormous advance and reflects the hard work and dedication of generations of women: Women who have fought to be heard [...]
By Trish Calvarese, 9/26/2011 In a national TV address Sunday, Saudi King Abdullah declared an end to the de facto ban on women’s suffrage. Beginning in 2015, women will be able to vote and run in local elections. This seemingly good news, heralded by the AP as “a major advancement for the rights of women,” overshadowed disturbing [...]
Part 2 of 2: These two blog posts provide two different reactions to Rebecca Traister’s New York Times piece, Ladies We Have a Problem, about the anti-victim-blaming rallies in Canada & the US known as SlutWalks. If you’ve heard any of the public discourse surrounding SlutWalks – from local TV stations, to blogs, personal Facebook [...]
Part 1 of 2: These two blog posts provide two different reactions to Rebecca Traister’s New York Times piece, Ladies We Have a Problem, about the anti-victim-blaming rallies in Canada & the US known as SlutWalks. If you’ve heard any of the public discourse surrounding SlutWalks – from local TV stations, to blogs, personal Facebook [...]
Guest post by the Boston Take Back the Night Collective [bostontbtn-at-gmail.com]. With megaphone cries, righteous posters and strong companionship, a group of students in Boston is hoping to pull off their first Take Back the Night march this Saturday. Take Back the Night is an evening of education and action in protest of sexual violence [...]
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