Much has been made about Obama’s victory and the female voting bloc that helped him get re-elected. Relevant meme after meme, like the one above, has sprouted across social media. The gist: If you’re happy about Tuesday night’s victory, thank a woman. Women usually make up about 54 percent of the electorate, and this time [...]
If critics and fans have long considered hip-hop to be the official music of the globe’s disenfranchised, a new artist who’s appeared in the genre only further confirms this. With the release of her new song, “Our Neighbors,” 23-year-old Sosan Firooz claims the title of Afghanistan’s first female rapper — or rather, the first, at [...]
Todd “legitimate rape” Akin is back at it again, this time claiming that employers should have the “freedom” to discriminate against women. At a campaign event Friday — the video of which seems to have been released Monday afternoon — a male attendee asked the rep: “You voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. [...]
At this point, complaining about Mitt Romney‘s inconsistency seems almost as fruitless an exercise as it is predictable. The GOP pick for the presidency routinely changes his positions in what can best be described as shamelessly pandering to voters. We know this — and we have known this since Mitt’s first White House bid. This [...]
So, I have been hesitant to say anything about Akingate because, up until this point, I wasn’t quite sure what I could say that wouldn’t just be an endless loop of “Seriously, America, WHAT THE FUCK?” Indeed, I knew what everyone else did: Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo), responding to a question about whether abortion should [...]
The recent flap over the Susan G. Komen For the Cure attempt to defund Planned Parenthood served as a wake-up call — and, luckily, a rallying cry. In the wake of that barely averted crisis, hundreds of thousands of dollars from other donors, both individual and corporate, rolled in to Planned Parenthood headquarters. That outpouring [...]
As you probably know, Susan B. Anthony was an iconic feminist who spent her life fighting for women’s rights. So you would think that any list bearing her name would obviously endorse someone like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose pro-woman credentials include introducing the EARLY Act in 2009 (which helps empower women to make informed decisions [...]
Good reason to wear jeans today: April 25th is widely recognized as Denim Day USA and dedicated to the prevention of sexual violence. Denim Day originates from a particularly infuriating Italian court case in which a rape conviction was overturned on the grounds that the victim was wearing “very, very tight jeans” at the time. [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
