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Nicole Harris of Secular Woman
Hey remember that conference called Women in Secularism that happened a few weeks back? Remember how cool it was? Oh what? You couldn’t go? Awww, well don’t feel too bad about that because I found a...
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INDIA Authorities in northern India have arrested three men, including two police officers, suspected of gang-raping and killing two teenage sisters before hanging their bodies from a mango tree....
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The Price of Silence
Categories: FeminismTags: feminismmisogynysexismwomenJuggling life as a woman and a scientist and a professional is hard. I’m currently flailing at it pretty badly. But that’s life, right? Live and...
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5 Things I Learned After My Partner Was Sexually Battered at an Atheist...
Categories: FeminismTags: atheismconferencesharassment policiessexismsexual assaultsexual batteryWhen you’re ethically non-monogamous, you end up engaging in a lot of meta relationship conversations....
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An Atheist and Agnostic Group For Women
Do you want to make a difference in the world? Do you want to see positive change take place? Do you want to find creative solutions to some of life’s problems without invoking prayer or super-natural...
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Ask Surly Amy: How To Help Fight Sexism On The Internet
Categories: Activism Feminism Random AsidesTags: Ask Surly Amyharassmenthelpinginternet activismsexismspeaking upIt’s been a while and things have been wild but I’m bringing back my Ask Surly Amy...
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Does Drinking Cow’s Milk Perpetuate Rape Culture?
Short Answer: No. Long Answer: Fuck no. Unfortunately, it seems that we might need a more in-depth examination of this quandary, because a vegan Twitter account with over 20,000 followers tweeted this...
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The Shame of Sweetness: Food as Code
Categories: FeminismThis morning as I was making my coffee (four creamers and four packets of sugar, thanks very much), I realized that I was mildly uncomfortable. There was another person in the...
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Ask Surly Amy: How To Fix a Sexist Boyfriend
Categories: Feminism Random AsidesTags: adviceAsk Surly Amysexismsexist boyfriendWe get email: Hello, I was wondering if you could help me out with an issue I’m having with my partner. I’m starting to...
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NEWS FLASH: Protest MRA Con on SATURDAY
Categories: Activism FeminismTags: MRAprotestOn Saturday in Detroit (that is tomorrow my friends) a group will protesting the Men’s Right’s Activist convention taking place this weekend at The Double...
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Global Quickies: Witch Doctors in Soccer, Hunger Games in Thailand, and...
Categories: Feminism Quickies ReligionIRELAND (from Amy) Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers. GHANA Ghana’s most influential witch doctor has...
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Every Day, A New Way to Police Women’s Sexuality
Categories: Feminism[Content Note: Murder, death threats, slut-shaming] It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, girl cheats on boy with boy’s best friend, boy slut-shames girl...
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Women are just too hard to create, says billion-dollar video game company
If you’re hearing a lot about video games lately, it’s probably because the Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, is happening this week. This is when game developers, reviewers, and...
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World Cup Ad Contest: Expecting the Worst
Categories: FeminismWhen I was told I was going to be transferred to Brazil for work over a decade ago, I had no idea what to expect. Pretty much the only thing I had heard about that country was...
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Global Quickies: Exoskeletons, Pastafarians, and No Psychic Pandas
Categories: Feminism Quickies Religion Science(Just two World Cup-related links, I promise.) BRAZIL A Brazilian paraplegic made the first kick of the World Cup using a robotic exoskeleton. It was cool,...
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No, #EndFathersDay & #WhitesCantBeRaped Are Not Feminist Movements
[Content Note: Slurs, Rape Denial] Last night, I noticed a couple hashtags on Twitter making the rounds: #WhitesCantBeRaped and #EndFathersDay. Both trended worldwide, and #EndFathersDay alone has...
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Last week I wrote that it was pretty obvious that #EndFathersDay was in no way a part of the feminist movement. Not only is there not a single shred of evidence indicating that feminists as a whole...
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Stop Being So Sensitive, Penn Jillette.
Categories: Feminism SkepticismAlmost daily I find myself thinking, “I sure wish men would stop being such sensitive crybabies!” That might seem odd, considering the “stop being so sensitive” line is...
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Bad Chart Thursday: Exposing Dov Charney & Terry Richardson
I had never thought much of Terry Richardson or Dov Charney, but all the information I’d heard about “them”, until very recently, somehow ended up in the same mental box, as it were. I instinctively...
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Global Quickies: The BBC Doesn’t Want Cranks, India Doesn’t Want Vishnu...
Categories: Anti-Science Feminism Quickies Religion ScienceNIGERIA The Nigerian man committed to a hospital psychiatric ward because he did not believe in god has been was released because of a...
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