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College Students Being Boss
It’s not exactly news that rape and sexual assault are problems on college campuses, or that many if not most college campuses have a long way to go in terms of their response to sexual assault and the...
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A Feminist Takeover Remembered
This is a guest post by Reverend Irene Monroe. Monroe is described in O, the Oprah Magazine, as “a phenomenal woman who has succeeded against all odds.” An African-American lesbian feminist public...
View ArticleThis 28-Year-Old Vegan Master Distiller Is Pretty Much Our Favorite Woman Ever
Marianne Barnes encompasses everything we love here at Skepchick: science, nerdery, women kicking ass, and booze. As the first female master Kentucky bourbon distiller at 28 years old, she’s an...
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Mansplain Monday: Men Mansplain Mansplaining to Me
Welcome to the second installment of Mansplain Monday. Last time I wrote about men who mansplain statistics to me. Of course, as any woman on the internet knows, if you mention the word “mansplaining”...
View ArticleHookers for Jesus Wants to “Save” Sex Workers Whether They Want It or Not
Hookers for Jesus is an absolutely real non-profit organization started by Annie Lobert, a former sex worker, in order to save women from the evils of prostitution via the most condescending and judgy...
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Shrill by Lindy West
It’s true that you don’t really know what it feels like to be targeted with the nonstop deluge of obsessive online harassment until it happens to you. How it seeps into your life, how it is real life....
View ArticleRacist Algorithms, Crime, and the Ethical Use of Data Prediction
ProPublica came out with an excellent piece this week by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kircher looking at the algorithms used by the US justice system to predict the recidivism rate...
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Amber Heard’s Legal Counsel Releases Statement on Johnny Depp
As you may have heard, actress Amber Heard recently filed for divorce from almost-Reason Rally speaker & dear friend of Lawrence Krauss, Johnny Depp. Since news of the divorce hit, a litany of...
View ArticleBrock Turner’s Dad’s Response: It was just *one* rape!
Brock Allen Turner, a former Stanford student, was recently convicted of rape and received a paltry six-month jail sentence (plus probation). His name has been in the headlines not only because of his...
View ArticleHistory Made.
Regardless of who you support, if you care about human rights and feminism- this video that is said to be introducing Hillary Clinton tonight, is worth watching. It’s moving and it speaks to feminism...
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You hair, your way
All my life, my hair has not been my own. All sorts of people had opinions and fee fees about my hair. Some folks would actually forget themselves, think they’re in a petting zoo, and get all up in my...
View ArticleRecall the Stanford Rape Judge!
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Brock Turner is a rapist who was just convicted of assaulting a woman while she was unconscious behind a dumpster near Stanford...
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Questionable Advertising: Slutty Lab Supplies
Even though I work in science, I am not usually confronted with raw sexism as if I were working in the world of Mad Men. Occasionally, however, I am reminded that being a woman in science is not the...
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Sundaylies with Salamanders, Multiverses, John Cleese and more!
Hello friends! It’s me, Surly Amy! Mindy can’t come to the Sundaylies today because she is now a superhero who can control the powers of physics while simultaneously fighting crime in the court room....
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Ghostbusters Just Fulfilled a Bit of My Childhood
Me: “Oh my god oh my god 5-year-old me would have lost her MIND if she saw this Ghostbusters movie with ladies in it!” Him: “Well, 30-something-year-old you did just lose her mind.” Summer 1984. A...
View ArticleCross-post: Hail to the Queen – interview with Simone Giertz
This post (in swedish) was originally published at Skepchick.se Simone Giertz is a Swedish inventor, a youtube sensation, and the queen of creating amazing – yet somewhat impractical – robots. Some...
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The Ease of Progressively Depicting “Females” in Overwatch
Warning: I’m about to take video games way too seriously for a sec. If you follow me on social media, you know that I’ve been fairly obsessed with the game Overwatch for the past month, streaming it...
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Federal court rules on black hair
I am black and I have black hair. Damn right. [gif from here] I have black hair texture. Check it. Today's nerd shirt. #scientistselfie pic.twitter.com/XRwm37eP3T — Raychelle Burks (@DrRubidium)...
View ArticleA Response to Jordan Peterson
An interview with University of Toronto Psychology professor Jordan Peterson has been circulating around social media for a few days now. In the interview, Peterson says a number of disturbing things,...
View ArticleUN Names Wonder Woman Ambassador! Fuck Everything About That
The United Nations has just announced that Wonder Woman will be named an honorary ambassador as a “women’s champion.” Did you hear that, fellow nerdy comic-book-loving feminists? Rejoice, for the days...
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