I LOVE EVERYTHING about this photo of a multi-tasking mama — an unknown photo researcher in Paris — hard at work in 1982.
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Sana Javed discusses why she stopped wearing the hijab in 2009
I AM ENDLESSLY FASCINATED by trans-cultural feminism. This is in part because being reminded of the tenuousness of my convictions always makes me feel alive. (A bit dramatic, I know.) So naturally, the intersection of Western media, Muslim women, and feminism is a place of exhilaration for me. [click to continue…]
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Ladies: meet your, er, dream man
LIKE SO MANY WOMEN today, I often find myself wondering: “How can I make the most of my womanhood?” and “How will I find my Prince Charming?” and sometimes even, “What should my life goals be?” Luckily we can all find answers to these vexing questions (and so much more, really) every Monday night on The Bachelor. And I’m only half-kidding. [click to continue…]
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TOMORROW MARKS THE 38th ANNIVERSARY of the supreme court’s Roe v. Wade decision. I’m so grateful to have been born into a country where sisters (and brothers, too, of course) before me fought for women’s right to choose! So how are you celebrating? Need ideas? [click to continue…]
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Jamie sports Style Council's recommended cutoff sweatshirt look.
LATELY I’VE BEEN LOVING The Seventeen Magazine Project, a social experiment and blog from 18 year-old high school senior, Jamie Kelles. The project guidelines require that Jamie live strictly according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine for 30 days (from May 21 to the day of her high school graduation, June 21), in order to investigate further “the role of beauty/fashion magazines in society.” Her findings? Well, nearly to the end of this mad sociologist experiment, Jamie has blogged witty insight on all kinds of teen fem issues. Here are some of the highlights: [click to continue…]
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EW, WHY DOES Sex and the City keep betraying their awesome roots by making horrible movies that involve living happily ever after whilst traveling to foreign lands? (Did you see the first movie? Will you see this one?) [click to continue…]
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WOULDN’T YOU RATHER die a bingo-playing spinster than be subjected to this kind of stupid ridicule? This detergent ad from 1936 starts, “Isn’t it natural for every girl to want popularity, romance, a devoted husband? What a pity, then to see lovely girls like those above losing out because they are careless about perspiration odor in underthings.” Poor Hildegarde over there on the right. At 27, she’s practically a cadaver.
(image via Jezebel)
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LAST WEEKEND I WAS BLESSED TO SEE The Glass House, an Iranian documentary that follows four women living on the fringes of society connected to each other by their involvement in a private rehabilitation center for women in Tehran. While the center’s clients have lived through unimaginable horrors, Omid e Mehr and the community of women within it, provide these desperate girls with what is often the first chance in their lives. To find out more about the documentary, filmed almost entirely on concealed cameras that miraculously emerged from Iran, visit Fictionville Studio. To learn about the center and the multitude women’s of stories that intersect around it, visit the Omid e Mehr Foundation website. Please consider giving to Omid e Mehr, as they exist solely on private funds.
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MY HEART WENT pitter-patter at the end of this speech. I’m elated that our dear President is even discussing the perils modern women and girls face. I’m looking forward to seeing how this council moves forward. For one, nationalized comprehensive sex education for young women (and men!) is long, long overdue. Which women’s issues are you hoping capture more federal focus during this administration?
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