All Together Now: Tammy Baldwin and The Whole Community
by: Alexandra Cavallaro I don’t know about you, but election night felt like a lesson in information management. I sat with two of my friends in their living room and […]
Category Archives: War on Women
Fighting the Same Battle: On the Shooting of Malala Yousfzai
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 […]
I Have Rights Too: Why I Refuse to Vote Republican in November
by: Lindsey Gavel When I was in high school, I started menstruating. I was a late bloomer, to be honest. But from day one, my cycles were abnormal. I was […]
“Trampire:” Why the Public Slut Shaming of Kristen Stewart Matters for Young Women
by: Nico Lang For the most part, I don’t really care about the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart breakup, because I don’t know them, I don’t like the Twilight movies and after suffering through David Cronenberg’sCosmopolis, […]
Slasher Style Ethics: The Conservative Discussion of Rape
by: Johnny Gall There’s no reason for me to rehash why exactly the comments of Todd Akin are awful and extremely offensive to rape victims everywhere, and indeed to anyone […]
HuffPo and the Changing Iconograpy of the Abortion Debate
by: Emily Heist Moss Yowza, kinda smacks you in the face, doesn’t it? I’m not a huge fan of journalistic sensationalism, of which this most certainly suffers, but sometimes the […]
If I Work Out To Chris Brown Music, Am I Supporting An Abuser?
by: Emily Heist Moss Note: This piece was originally featured on Role/Reboot and republished with permission. You can find the original here. The music we listen to, the stores we […]
Public Breastfeeding Should Not Be a Big Deal
by: Miriam Mogilevsky Breastfeeding has been somewhat of a hot topic lately. On one hand, mothers’ decision to breastfeed or not has been subject to intense moralizing and even actual […]
Vagina: Not All That Shocking After All
by: Khai Devon I’m going to talk about my vagina, in this piece. Be forewarned. I will probably mention the word vagina at least, say, twenty more times (you’re more […]
A Special Interest: On Defunding Domestic Violence And Sexual Assault Prevention In South Carolina
by: Kathryn Carlisle Gov. Nikki Haley stuck her foot in her mouth again last week, posting on her Twitter and Facebook pages referring to domestic violence prevention coalition and “special […]
