Tag Archives: Activism
“Do I look suspicious?”
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetStudents at the historically Black college Howard University have put together this beautiful little video about racial profiling and the assumption that any man of colour in a hoodie is suspicious. In light of the comments about how Trayvon Martin’s clothing was as much to blame for his death as the man who killed him, [...]
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Thousands of Egyptian women march to protest military brutality
Originally posted in Feministing
Tweet [Video via] Yesterday, several thousand women marched through Cairo in what historians described as the biggest women’s demonstration in modern Egyptian history. From the AP: Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt’s ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and [...]
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FTW: Newt Gingrich gets glitterbombed by gay rights activist
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetWell sparkle me pretty, I think I’ve found my new hero. Tuesday evening, former Speaker and anti-LGBT asshat Newt Gingrich was greeted with a bucket of sparkles over his head by a gay rights activist during a book-signing taking place before a fundraiser for the Minneapolis Family Council — an organization that is known for [...]
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International body image activism movement launches in London
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetAs mentioned before, I’ve been devoting a lot of my energy and time for the last year and a half to organizing a summit on body image activism in New York City, March 18/19 at The New School. The New York crew (basically myself and The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute) has been working in partnership [...]
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Legitimate rape, the song