December 2010
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Guide for Everyone to Stop Street Harrassment →
I’m used to ignoring the terms of endearment yelled at me by strange men on the street. Like most women I know, I treat street harassment like unpleasant weather — a common occurrence I silently endure by drawing my coat tighter around my body and walking briskly ahead with a stiff neck. But, thanks to this piece, I’d been promising myself I’d take the plunge for weeks, and on this...
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'Give us a kiss love, it's Christmas' →
The most common misperception about street harassment is that it’s a harmless bit of fun. But those who believe this have clearly never been asked for their phone number by a stranger and then told to fuck off when they politely decline. Sexual harassment on the street is not harmless, and it’s not funny. It quickly escalates, and it leaves women feeling threatened, alienated and...
“No means no” gave a voice to the abused, the raped, the victimized. It created a...”
– Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publicly Recognizable Names | Fugitivus (via janedoe225)
This breaks my heart because it’s so fucking true. Just finished watching the Wolf vs Friedman discussion on the Julian Assange allegations… and I have to say Friedman is dead on correct when she...
“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...”
– Julian Assange (via nerdinlove)
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The Feminist Hub: The Abortion Basics: What is the... →
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This is the second installment of Rabble’s The Abortion Basics mini-series.
One of the most common misconceptions I see while writing for Rabble Pro-Choice is that people generally don’t understand what the abortion debate is actually about. A lot of anti-choice people I speak with and some…
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WatchTED Talks - Tony Porter: A call to men
At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the “man box.”
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Trying to Rape a Lesbian Straight: Sounds Like a... →
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padaviya:
In South Africa, lesbian women are raped or gang-raped by men who believe that unwanted penetration by a penis can screw them straight (or sometimes the assailants throw that goal out to go ahead and kill the woman). It sure sounds like a hate crime to me. But the South African government doesn’t seem to agree, and it doesn’t take the average 10 reported “corrective rapes”...
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20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the... →
10. Cafuné
Brazilian Portuguese – “The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.”
Já recebeu seu cafuné hoje? (Did you get your cafuné today?)
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Czech gay asylum 'phallometric test' criticised by... →
The EU’s leading human rights agency has sharply criticised the Czech authorities for using a controversial method of testing whether homosexual asylum seekers are genuinely gay.
The Fundamental Rights Agency said the Czech Republic was the only EU country still using a “sexual arousal” test.
Gay asylum seekers are hooked up to a machine that monitors blood-flow to the penis...
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Girl kills pimp and is sentenced to prison for... →
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Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. When Sara met G.G., the 31-year-old man who would become her pimp, she was only 11. G.G. groomed Sara two years before he raped her. By then, his control was complete...
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Shakesville: 'Pro-choice' →
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Here are some reasons that a straight, married feminist/womanist woman might have taken her husband’s name:
Click through to read on.
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