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How to Date a Feminist in Five Easy Steps
TweetHow to Date to a Feminist in Just Five Easy Steps By: Kim Tran Let me preface this piece by saying the following article is based purely on anecdotes belonging to me or my friends. This article documents what often happens after those hallelujah moments when your partner who claims to share your feminist beliefs [...]
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The Harbinger of Doom, or NOT!
TweetThis is where we were at in my last post: “Now, I hate to be the harbinger of doom (I’m talking to all you younger ladies out there as well), but all women, every single one of us, must face this scenario sooner or later. As we age the popular media gradually villainizes and de-sexualizes us, [...]
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Leave my heels alone: I need them to fight the kyriarchy
Tweet A SYTYCB entry Ohhh, people’s reactions to queer femmes*: “I don’t get it: she doesn’t look queer, does she?” “Doesn’t she know that makeup is a patriarchal invention?” “I guess she just must be bi, right?”** When these questions come from fellow feminists – lesbians included – it breaks my queerly radical little heart. [...]
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Abortion, Let’s NOT Leave Religion Out of It!
Confronting people with the theocratic core of the movement to end abortion is necessary to begin to win people away from the movement they are lending their support to. Either you should uphold that Biblical scripture and the world it would impose, or you should fight against it, including through defending women's right to abortion.
‘Women’s bodies are not public goods’ and other corrections we are still making