IN FEBRUARY, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina passed an ordinance that protected trans peoples’ rights to use public bathrooms that correspond with their gender…
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DYSTOPIAN FICTION: What life for women might be like if these GOP candidates won the presidency (and got their way). *Trigger Warning: mentions sexual and…
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LAST MONDAY, MARCH 7TH marked the third anniversary of the 2013 re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This landmark legislation, first passed in…
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MARCH IS A BIG MONTH FOR WOMEN IN THE SUPREME COURT, as the Justices hear arguments for two major cases of consequence for women’s reproductive…
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SINCE LAST SUMMER, I’ve played pool once a week with my roommate. We call it our “roommate date.” Pool night is my favorite night of…
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I AM, AND HAVE LONG BEEN, KEENLY AWARE of the fact that, had I been born in another time or in certain parts of the world,…
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BARBIE SALES have been plummeting for years, likely because of a more prominent national conversation about body image and a progressive shift toward more gender-neutral…
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IN JANUARY, news broke that South African mayor Dudu Mazibuko has implemented the “Maiden’s Bursary Award,” an educational scholarship given to girls who pass a…
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THIS MONTH SAW TWO BIG ENDORSEMENTS FOR THE CLINTON campaign, and two big disappointments for the Sanders campaign. Planned Parenthood is endorsing a candidate in…
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IF SOMEONE ASKED YOU what “the boyfriend loophole” was, would your first guess be that it had to do with gun ownership? Earlier this month,…
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ON DECEMBER 29TH, new legislation enacted in the U.K. under the Serious Crime Act established emotional and psychological abuse as criminal offenses. The law attaches…
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FROM SUGGESTING THAT nobody would want to vote for Carly Fiorina because of her face to his recent disgust at Hillary Clinton’s extended bathroom break,…
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