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• Women in Film: A Story from the Indie Trenches

  By Guest on March 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  It was a joyful scene on the set of A Sort of Homecoming Sunday night – we wrapped principal photography on time and largely on budget – and celebrated the fact that several of our actors and one of our… Read More ›

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• The United States’ Toxic Export to Uganda

  By Guest on March 1, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  In 1979, Reverend Jerry Falwell announced a “declaration of war” on homosexuality in America. While this war is losing credibility domestically, it’s gaining dangerous momentum abroad. On Monday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality bill sentencing those convicted of… Read More ›

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• Creating Safe Feminist Spaces on the Internet

  By Guest on February 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  With the advent of using 140 characters to express oneself on Twitter and the popularity of using the virtual sphere as a place to activate and revolutionize, feminism is experiencing a dynamic shift in the way social justice work is… Read More ›

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• Zero Tolerance for FGM

  By Guest on February 6, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Today approximately 8,219 girls will face the risk of having their clitoris and labia removed and their vaginas infibulated with the use of primitive tools in unsanitary conditions. A majority of them will undergo this procedure against their will. While… Read More ›

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• Debunking Barbie’s Beauty Standards

  By Guest on February 5, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Yesterday, Kim Culmone, vice president of design for Barbie at Mattel (in an interview with Fast Company) defended Barbie’s unrealistic, often-criticized, and highly dangerous body proportions by arguing that her body shape and size is necessary “for real life fabrics… Read More ›

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• On Stigma and How to Make Abortion Scarce and Unsafe in the U.S.

  By Guest on January 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This week, Indiana saw several developments that could help or hurt women’s ability to access the medical care they need when they need it, especially if what they need is an abortion. On Tuesday, a federal court fixed a time… Read More ›

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• The Veil of Denial: Women and Alcohol

  By Guest on January 6, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  During my early college years, I became a feminist out of necessity. On a foundation of pain wrought by those teenage years of girlhood, I was ready to believe that something else was possible. To make sense of the world… Read More ›

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• India, One Year After Nirbhaya

  By Guest on December 31, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  A year has passed since the fatal gang-rape of the 23-year old student in New Delhi, which in the words of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee “shook the conscience of the whole nation.” The tragic episode led the world’s largest democracy… Read More ›

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• The Forgotten Ones

  By Guest on December 19, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  As a reproductive rights activist, I never thought that feminism would fail me. I was wrong. I was seven weeks pregnant when I was faced with the toughest decision of my life: Abide by my partner’s rules — have an… Read More ›

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• Queer India Zindabad! (Long Live Queer India!)

  By Guest on December 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  It had been barely twenty-four hours after International Human Rights Day when the Supreme Court of India overturned a 2009 ruling by the Delhi High Court, declaring homosexual intercourse between consenting adults a criminal act. In this upsetting judgment, the… Read More ›

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