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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetThe Texas state legislature is in rare sexist form this year, and last night State Rep. Senfronia Thompson had enough. A group called the Texas Civil Justice League distributed a flyer showing a baby nursing on a breast with with words over it criticizing a bill they said would expand the “nanny state.” The bill’s [...]
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetEllen Willis was the New Yorker’s first pop culture critic, a radical feminist and a trail-blazing woman. From 1968 to 1975, Willis wrote about rock and roll for the esteemed magazine, and throughout her career, she wrote for a range of publications about gender, race, class and American politics, usually through the lens of music. [...]
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Teen soccer star Indi Cowie is amazing
Originally posted in Feministing
TweetAt the height of my soccer career, I could juggle the ball 107 times in a row. Indi Armstrong Cowie, the 16 year-old-soccer star profiled in the recent New York Times Magazine, could juggle 2,000 times straight by the time she was 10. Cowie is the shit. In addition to being an amazing soccer player [...]
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Rep. Gwen Moore on VAWA, shares experience of sexual assault