Global Quickies: Blasphemy, Deadly Rituals, and Calling Out Sexism
UK A couple is sentenced for making fake bomb detectors in their garden shed. They sold them for thousands of dollars. These and other “detectors” are still being used in war zones, drug wars, and...
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Online Threats Against Women Now Officially Terrorism
Anita Sarkeesian is scheduled to speak at Utah State University tomorrow, Wednesday, October 15th. However, The Standard Examiner has confirmed that an act of terrorism has been threatened against the...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Witchcraft, Gurus, and #BringBackOurGirls
NIGERIA Nigeria’s chief of defense announced a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram and the release of the 200 abducted girls. Not many details have been announced and many Nigerians remain extremely...
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Bad Judgement, Catholic Antivaxxers, and a Dictator’s Quest...
NIGERIA Dr Adadevoh is being widely praised for helping prevent a more devastating Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, now declared free of the virus. She diagnosed and kept in the hospital a Liberian ebola...
View ArticleNew Video! Calling Out Religious Misogyny without Hypocrisy
Support more videos like this at Patreon! Pseudo-transcript: In Orange County, Florida, public schools, a Christian group was allowed to hand out Bibles and other literature on Freedom of Religion Day,...
View ArticleAdam Savage on #Gamergate and Harassment of Women Online
Last week I got the amazing opportunity to check out Adam Savage’s secret cave of radness, which is filled to the brim with movie props, costumes, and space helmets. I was tagging along while Indre...
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Shirts for when you’ve just landed a spacecraft on a comet
Landing a spacecraft on a comet?! That’s cool! That’s the kind of cool achievement that should be paired with a cool shirt! This is the scientific head of operations for the ESA’s rosetta project. Cool...
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Ex-Cop Tony Ryan Threatens to “Make My Trip Memorable” in China Next Week
As many of you know, I’ll be traveling to China next week to give one talk in Hong Kong on 20 November and another over on the mainland in Dongguan on 21 November. I’m very excited, as it’s the first...
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The Twelve Days Of Trolling
Inspired by the trolling during #shirtstorm, written by yours truly, and first assembled via Storify by @szvan…. The Twelve Days Of Trolling On the first day of Trolling, a dudebro true sent to me a...
View ArticleSo about That Shirt…
I’ve been looking forward to the Rosetta Landing for quite some time. Sure, not as long as many who have worked on the project, but I had been following the news since the comet encounter, getting...
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Cross-Post: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2014
Categories: Activism FeminismTags: QueerekatransgenderTransgender Day of RemembranceThis post was written by Jac and is cross-posted from Queereka. Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)....
View ArticleGlobal Quickies: Bad PSAs, Sham Healer Jailed, and a School for Husbands
PAKISTAN “The actor Veena Malik has expressed anger at a 26-year jail term handed down by a Pakistani court after she acted in a scene loosely based on the marriage of the prophet Muhammad’s daughter....
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Online Harassers Prove My Point Yet Again
This post and the video within contains NSFW language and discussion of online harassment and rape and death threats. Because of course it does! Can you even believe it? I know, I know, we should be...
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The More Men Hate on a Woman, The More I’ll Probably Love Her
Men hating on famous women is a pastime as old as fame itself. From the vilification of Eve (as if Adam didn’t eat the apple of his own free will) to Annie Oakley (“When a man hits a target, they call...
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Playing With Privilege
A video based on an article titled, “Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male” and written by Tropes vs Women in Video Games producer, Jonathan McIntosh was released today....
View ArticleRolling Stone Retracts Sexual Assault Allegations Suddenly Rape No Longer Exists
Rolling Stone magazine just released the following statement that will prove to be devastating to survivors and victims of sexual assault. You think women were scared to report before? Watch how many...
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Fun Fact! Even Awful Women Don’t Deserve Rape Threats
TW for sexist slurs and threats of gender violence. Recently, the online discussion over the harassment of women has become a hot topic. We’ve dealt with our share of harassment here at Skepchick and...
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The Story Behind Sarah’s Abortion
I knew even before the two little lines appeared that I was pregnant. I’m not saying I had magic intuition or anything, just that I use a period tracker app that’s surprisingly accurate, I had sex on a...
View ArticleWhy I’m Okay with Doxing
A few months ago, people were very angry at me for “doxing” Dr. Eliza Sutton, a prolific troll who uses pseudonyms online to harass feminists. “Doxing,” or “doxxing,” is the act of publicizing...
View ArticleJane the Virgin May be the Most Progressive Show on Television
It may seem unlikely that a telenovela adaptation about a 23-year-old virgin by choice who was accidentally artificially inseminated by her soon-to-be baby daddy’s gynecologist sister would be a...
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