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On Men Who Think Street Harassment Would Be Awesome

October 19, 2012by inourwordsblog 5 Comments

by Miriam Mogilevsky Whenever women are discussing street harassment and what causes it and how to prevent it, a man inevitably comes along to inform us that, actually, our feelings about harassment […]

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Equality, Feminism, Gender, Rape Culture, Society, Women
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What a Disgusting Facebook Page Tells Us About a Woman’s Need to Be Desired

October 17, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Emily Heist Moss Note: This post was also published on Role/Reboot and republished with permission. You can find the original here. In this piece, Emily Heist Moss discusses the […]

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Feminism, Rape Culture, Youths
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Is Slutwalk The End of Feminism?

October 17, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Yasmin Nair Without a critical self-awareness and a willingness to address and act upon the structural, economic, and political problems that face women and others, Slutwalk is in danger […]

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Activism, Event, Feminism, Gender, Politics, Rape Culture, Reproductive Rights
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Fighting the Same Battle: On the Shooting of Malala Yousfzai

October 16, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Maggie Carr The recent shooting of Malala Yousafzai has torn me up. Deeply. You’d have to be an automaton to feel anything but grief. But she continues to hang […]

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Awareness, Feminism, War on Women, Women
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A Femmeinist on Femmephobia and the Empowerment of Femme

October 10, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: ellie june navidson The other day i was out at a poetry reading. It was largely fantastic, lovely, insightful, and funny. The evening was truly enjoyable, despite the zipper […]

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Feminism, Femme
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What We Said At SlutWalk

October 1, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Clarisse Thorn and Nico Lang Preface: This is the text that we read at SlutWalk Chicago, the sex-positive anti-rape march that  was held over the weekend. The march started at […]

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Activism, Chicago, Feminism, LGBT, Sex, Society, Women
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Civil Rights are for Everyone: Why Ann Coulter’s Logic is Twisted

September 26, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Derrick Clifton When’s the last time you took heed to something Ann Coulter said? Truth is, you probably haven’t. And there’s probably good reason. Coulter’s inflammatory style of discussing […]

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Activism, Editorial, Equality, Feminism, Life, Politics
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Queering Harry Potter: The World of “Slash Fiction”

September 21, 2012by inourwordsblog 4 Comments

by: Evelyn Eisleigh This summer, I was sucked deep into the world of Harry Potter fan fiction, and my life will never be the same. I know what you’re thinking, this […]

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Books, Feminism, Queers
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Sexism and the CTU Strike

September 21, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by Derrick Clifton It’s hard being a female leader in a male-dominated society. Following the culmination of the Chicago Teachers’ Union strike, I’m sure Karen Lewis would agree. What started […]

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Beauty Culture, Education, Equality, Feminism, Politics, Women
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China’s Sexual Revolution

September 19, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Sophie Jane China is the subject of much controversy and intrigue, receiving coverage in every part of the western media on an almost daily basis. Misunderstandings of Chinese politics […]

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Activism, Feminism, Gender, News

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