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Swedish toy company reverses genders in new catalogue
Top Toy, one of the largest toy companies in Sweden, is flipping the gender script in its Christmas catalogue. This year, girls are shown playing with toy guns, while boys are playing with dollhouses....
View ArticleQuick Hit: 10 things I want my daughter to know before she turns 10
I usually shy away from lists like this out of fear that they are extremely heteronormative, fat-shaming, sexist, etc. But this one… This one was beautiful and perfect. Not only did it remind me of the...
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The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes
Last night everyone in the world (read: everyone I follow on Twitter) watched the Golden Globes, which promised to be an important event for women in entertainment with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosting...
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Why I’m not looking for the missing Black folks on HBO’s “Girls”
Before I start: I did not see any of the second season yet, so NO SPOILERS! Anyway…Almost everybody loves HBO’s Girls–even black girls like me who don’t have a TV and have to make arrangements to go...
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All Malala Everything
Let Malala Yousafzai be a reminder to all of us of strength, courage and unflinching determination to survive and succeed in a world that demands you to fail. The artists at Zen Pencils have created a...
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Urge the White House to recognize non-binary genders. Five-year-old girl names dinosaur… after herself. Why didn’t Abigail Fisher get into UT? Support the #NotBuyingIt app! Stop fat shaming Kim...
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Who approved these ridiculously sexist “Avengers” T-shirts?
Welp, sexist advertising doesn’t get much more blatant this. Here’s Marvel’s Avengers T-shirt for boys: And for girls: Update: Sign the petition to say we’re #notbuying it. Related: What if dude...
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Why are teenage rape survivors being driven to suicide?
*Trigger warning* Just days after Rehtaeh Parsons’ death comes news of an eerily similiar case. Like Parsons, Audrie Pott was 15 years old when she was raped by classmates at a friend’s house. A photo...
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“Let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.”
When photographer Jamie Moore was thinking about marking her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday with a photo shoot, she wanted to get more creative than a set of princess photos. She explains: It started...
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Gabrielle Molina Queens middle school student Gabrielle Molina hanged herself after months of gendered bullying. The repercussions of speaking up about sexual violence. Best frenemies forever! BGD...
View ArticleHappy International Day of the Girl!
I thought I couldn’t love this song any more but apparently that’s only because I hadn’t yet see it paired with images of adorable girls from around the world. The theme of this second annual UN...
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Inspired by the Hunger Games, girls “aim” farther with archery
image via Rockwood Camp Thank you Katniss Everdeen! The popularity of the Hunger Games series, a trilogy book-turned-movie series, has more girls “aiming” for archery as their sport (I had no idea...
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The Feministing Five: Lilly and Juliet Bond
Credit to Juliet Bond If asked where I learned the most about feminism, empowerment, and consciousness, I’d give you two answers. The first would be my feminist momma who taught me that speaking up and...
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Why “like a girl” shouldn’t be an insult
Let’s just pretend that this isn’t a commercial for Always menstrual products and appreciate this heart-warming reminder that girls are confident and joyful before we teach them that being a girl is...
View ArticleGirl Scouts group returns $100K after donor demands they exclude trans girls
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington recently received a generous gift of $100,000 with a shitty stipulation from the donor: “Please guarantee that our gift will not be used to support transgender...
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How the justice system hurts survivors through the “sexual abuse to prison...
Today in depressing facts we need to do something about: This new report on the “sexual abuse to prison pipeline,” which cites sexual abuse as one of the greatest predictors of girls’ entrance into the...
View ArticleDC Comic’s new franchise includes teenaged versions of female super heroes
DC comics is creating a new world of superheroes, this one aimed at girls aged 6-12. Super Hero Girls is DC comic’s newest animated venture and it follows the lives of teenaged main characters...
View ArticleMy vagina is tired of compromise
Yes, sometimes I can feel it coming on in slow motion like a head cold, but a head cold of heart, mind, and genitals wherein the pathogen is not rhinovirus but romance. This is a flavor of existence I...
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Essential Viewing: Summer 2016
The summer, as we know, is not necessarily the time for exciting theatrical runs (though, one might ask, when is?). But over these past few months, I saw a few films that I’m not only recommending as...
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