By Deborah Aronin, Ms. Magazine Blog When Ms. magazine asked me what I thought about #NoShaveNovember, I had never even heard of such a thing, and I couldn’t quite grasp its point. Maybe this is because I participate in something called No Shave Forever: I don’t shave my armpits and only occasionally shave my legs. [...]
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 [...]
Last week, Feminist Majority Foundation afforded me an amazing opportunity to attend the 2011 Sister Song “Let’s Talk About Sex: Love Legislation and Leadership” conference in Miami, Florida from July 13-17. Sister Song is a reproductive justice non-profit for women of color that is a conglomerate of 80 local and national grassroots organizations that target [...]
The Campus Team urges you to check out the Women, Action, and the Media conferences happening across the country this weekend. These “WAM! It Yourself” conferences aim to raise awareness about sexism in media and promote action on gender justice in the media. WAM’s vision, and the goal of the conference is to attain, “Gender [...]
Guest post by Mariel Over the past few months, I have noticed a lot of talk about plus size models. Many fashion magazines (especially the French versions of Elle and Vogue) have been featuring plus size models and even have had issues dedicated to conversations about size. I think this attention is well deserved because [...]
Guest post by Ellen The Huffington Post has an online slideshow and poll of the sexiest PETA ads today. This collection illustrates PETA’s strategy for getting more people interested in protecting animals and becoming vegetarians, mainly by showing mostly naked women looking like they will sleep with anyone who tosses their leather jacket in the [...]
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