Both an asset and a danger to the Patriarchy Party, she’s marshaled the right’s anti-choice women to shame the fellas into letting her play.
Gender & Sexuality
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Sanders Unveils Women’s Rights Policy Initiatives
Last week, I wrote about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s lack of policy proposals regarding women’s rights. Over the weekend, the campaign updated its website to include several new policy initiatives. Sanders’s new plan for fighting for women’s rights is expansive, and the most detailed in the Democratic field. If elected president, Sanders would only […]
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Where’s Bernie’s Platform on Reproductive Rights?
With reproductive freedom under attack at the state and federal level, what’s Sanders’s plan?
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The Clinton Candidacy: What the Republican War on Planned Parenthood Is Really About
Abortion opponents know a pro-choice woman is likely to be the Democratic nominee. War on.
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Republicans Slut-Shame Megyn Kelly, Reward Trump
The Republican frontrunner is only expressing the logical end of what many in the party believe.
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Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle Over Hair
While men’s hair can often be neutral, women’s hair is fraught with questions of sexuality, professionalism, and identity.
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Defunding Planned Parenthood Would Be the Real Betrayal of Women
In the past two weeks, three secretly recorded (and misleadingly edited) videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing fetal tissues were leaked by anti-choice activists in an attempt to make the organization appear to be participating in the illegal harvesting of body parts for profit. Pro-choice activists have dissected the videos and proved that Planned Parenthood […]
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If the Pope Wanted to Help the Poor, He’d Be a Feminist
Progressives are too easily taken in by talk of climate change and capitalism.
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The U.S. Won the World Cup—Can We Take Women’s Sports Seriously Now?
On Sunday night-surely you know by now-the United States Women’s National Team won the World Cup with a high-scoring 5–2 victory over Japan. What has gotten just as much attention as the match itself-and rightfully so-is the pay disparity between men and women’s sports. The U.S. Women’s Team took home $2 million for their third […]
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What Some Black Church Leaders Have Wrong About Gay Marriage — and Civil Rights
From Stonewall to Black Lives Matter, the African American LGBT community has always been on the forefront of fights for equality.
