February 2012
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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Lady reporters too sexy for Twitter
In case you didn’t see this gem, media and politics blog FishbowlDC thinks that female journalists should stop being so damn sexy in their Twitter avatars. They even provide some examples of these scandalously whorish women with a couple of happy looking ladyreporters, and ask readers to send in similarly slutty pics. When taken to task over the blatant sexism of the post over Twitter,...
Feb 23rd
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BREAKING: Virginia Personhood Bill Officially Dead →
stfuconservatives: fuckyeahfeminists:
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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I watched the Republican debate on CNN tonight
And all that kept going through my mind was this scene from PCU…
Feb 23rd
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Oakland Police Shoot Oscar Grant’s Cousin →
What the ever loving fuck. 
Feb 22nd
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The GOP’s Long War Against Women and Sex →
My latest at The Nation…
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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WatchWatch
The Daily Show takes on VA’s transvaginal ultrasound law.
Feb 22nd
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Virginia governor no longer fully supports... →
Props to all the pro-choice activists in VA!
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Calculator: How Expensive is Birth Control? →
Feb 21st
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Anonymous asked: I love your work and admire what you've done. I've got a question, its personal so don't feel bad not answering it! Basically, I was raised being told constantly that, if I had sex before marriage, I'd go to Hell and I'd be a whore. I'm 20 now, and I don't follow the church anymore. I'm a feminist through and through. And I want to have sex. But every time I...
Feb 20th
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Hundreds of women take to VA State Capitol to... →
Via Steph Herold.
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Support young feminists in Texas →
A group of young feminists at the University of North Texas in Denton are trying to raise funds to go to the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Young Feminist Conference in DC…help them out at the link!
Feb 20th
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Anonymous asked: I am a recent grad & I want to use my degree to create positive social impact, especially in regard to equal rights. I was fortunate enough to land a job w/ a nonprofit mgmt & fundraising consulting firm, however, my first assignment is fundraising for a Catholic school. The project itself is great, raising money for facilities for the students, but I struggle w/ the fact that my beliefs...
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Santorum is against coverage for prenatal testing
So Santorum doesn’t think that amniocentesis should be covered by insurance because when there’s a problem “in most cases physicians recommend abortion.” (Not true.) Most people who get amnios do so because a prenatal blood tests have showed that there may be a chromosomal abnormality (or for women over 35 years old, because your doc will strongly encourage it). Yes, in...
Feb 19th
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CNN’s Dana Loesch Equates Mandatory Trans-Vaginal... →
Feb 19th
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WatchWatch
Feb 19th
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Goodnight, y'all.
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: You're writing another book? On what??
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: This is going to be a really weird question. But i'm young, my parents monitor all of the things I buy very closely. My parents are very strict and preach abstinence as an only option. I have been going to purity balls with my father since before I can remember. After I saw the preview for your documentary I want to see more, and learn more about this subject. But like I said, my parents...
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: Dear Jessica, I just watched The Purity Myth Documentary online and I really enjoyed it. Thank-you for making such a great documentary (and book), I hope it is widely used for years to come. Also, I was very impressed with your appearance on Anderson Cooper. You said everything I would have wanted to say in a more eloquent way than I would have managed.
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: I was happy to learn that your family life is stabilizing, and I am equally happy to see you've been raising your profile again recently (most notably, Anderson Cooper's talk show). Can we expect to see more of you in the media?
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: First off, I just wanted to say that my sister introduced me to you and your work, and your books are what really got me thinking about feminism. But I have to ask - how do you personally cope with how exhausting being a feminist can be? I often find that I seem to get so overwhelmed by the reality of all the inequality, injustice and ills of society and usually it results in me becoming...
Feb 18th
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toweirdtolivetoraretodie asked: have you heard of the pregnant women support act, what do you think about it?
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: An article called Stand up and Defend Life (I can't embed but if you google that + Amherst, you can find it...) was recently published in the Amherst College newspaper. I'm a student at Amherst and I was appalled that they would allow something so blatantly misogynistic to be published. I was wondering your opinion--should things like that be given a school sponsored outlet...
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: I am a Resident Assistant in my university's dorms, and I have 58 female residents who laugh at the idea of feminism and are perfectly okay with being objectified. What is a good program or activity I could do for them that would convince them otherwise?
Feb 18th
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caishcaish asked: Yesterday on my way to the bar a random guy shouted "hey shorty suck my fat dick" in my direction. I was too shocked to respond and hoped he hadn't been speaking to me, but looking back I think he was. Since I've had my "feminist" revelation I realize that this is not something that I should accept as normal and ignore. I wish I had said something to him. How would...
Feb 18th
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miumachi asked: Have you read Nina Power's "One Dimensional Woman"? She has a chapter that references a lot of quotes from you in it... just wanted to know what you thought of it if you have checked it out.
Feb 18th
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Anonymous asked: diva cup. yes or no?
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Fox News pundit Liz Trotta on women getting raped... →
motherjones: Gee, she must have a pretty low opinion of male soldiers. And women. But as we found out, she didn’t have those problems when she was a “combat” reporter in Vietnam.
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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New Jersey Senate Approves Marriage Equality →
Feb 13th
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Feb 10th
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“I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show but I really want to...”
– Ellen DeGeneres responding to the hate group that is pressuring JC Penney to fire DeGeneres from a spokesperson gig, saying the store will “lose customers with traditional values.” 
Feb 8th
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Online Feminism's Big Win Against Komen for the... →
My latest at The Nation.
Feb 7th
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Komen Founder in 2010 Memoir: Dropping Planned... →
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Living in the shaky place
“Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live. This place, if you can touch it, will help you train yourself throughout your life to open further to...
Feb 6th
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