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Welcome to Hell
WELCOME TO HELL This is an important milestone that women are inviting men to the hell they experience EVERY SINGLE DAY! Join us!
Men are scared after #MeToo? Think what it’s like for women
American men are afraid. They’re fretting over their ability to give a colleague a well-meaning hug without it being interpreted as lecherous, worried that the scores of powerful men being fired is a sign of a full-blown “sex panic”, and that the era of #MeToo is...
Women to Watch: Shanthi Sekaran
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Women to Watch, a series celebrating 20 local women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2017. Driven by passion for their own disciplines, from photography to comedy and every other medium in between, these women are true...
WAGE GAP for Black Women
Black women receive 67 cents to a white man’s dollar. Casey Quinlan @ Think Progress Monday is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the day that marks when black women are paid the same wages as their white male peers were paid last year. Black women are paid only 67 cents on...
New Community Radio for Central Coast
WATCH OUR VIMEO We have an opportunity to purchase a community radio station serving the Santa Cruz are. The airwaves can reach a potential audience of 152,000 people. We hope to start a new station with public service and localism at its heart. Community radio is...
Hole Helped Free Dozens During Pulse Shooting
Orlando police chief John Mina’s decision to blast a hole through an outside wall at Pulse provided an exit for many trapped inside – including the shooter.Police photos issued hours after the Orlando attack show a simple hole in a wall, about 4ft high and 3ft feet...
The Legal Genital Mutilation for Girls
Why do girls want labiaplasty? They're told to hate every inch of themselves By Jessica Valenti Despite all the feminist progress we’ve made, women and girls are still subject to mixed messages about how their bodies must be perfect It would almost be easier if there...
DO NOT READ THIS
[Essay] RED LIGHT THERAPY By Adam Phillips, from Unforbidden Pleasures, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than fifteen books. Traffic changed in the United States after the First World War,...
Standing up to Rape Culture
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time to amplify the stories of survivors and inspire individuals to take action to stop sexual violence in their communities. That's why this week, we're asking you to tweet that you believe victims of sexual assault....