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[Image text: book cover of "I am Malala"] Last night I finished Malala Yousafzai's book, "I am Malala." As I...

Have you heard of Wadjda? It's the first movie made entirely in Saudi Arabia, and what's more, it was written and directed by a ...

I think we can all agree that the past week has been a pretty tough one here in the states. So I thought it might be a nice moment to highli...

Here are a few things I am currently enjoying... Today is Columbus Day...a day which has a pretty disturbing past, such that I'm not s...

I have a notion that it's sort of hard for me to connect to female characters written by men. While I truly value authentic female voice...

You'll get my pun in a moment. Sometimes American liberals like to go off into a kiss-ass-fest with Scandinavian countries. Places lik...

Whelp, SXSW is officially over and all of our lovely visitors are making their way out of Austin. But before we put SXSW 2012 fully behind u...

Happy International Women's Day! ...Sigh. While I do offer this exclamation genuinely, I can't help but also intend a layer of...

This post is a part of my “Out of the Kitchen” weekly column at The Progressive Playbook in which various news and pop culture items will b...

Apparently not to some people out there. I just learned on Feministing that Julian Assange has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Lori...

"There's a special place in hell for women who do not help other women." Madeleine Albright One of my favorite quotes. In tha...

I was going to write a whole blog about the worst movie I've seen in a long, long time, then this whole Osama Bin Laden thing popped up ...

Trigger warning for detailed discussion of rape. So if you've read just one feminist blog in the past two weeks, you have undoubtedl...

So the first weekend of this month, I managed a wee little girls empowerment conference. Needless to say, I was super, insanely busy for a w...

We'll see if I can get this sucker started again, now that my life isn't consumed with summer camp-y things. Thought I'd just ma...

Feminism looks very different around the world .

So I've written a little bit before about my choice not to change my name and how I'm continuously questioned about this...and how i...

Japanese workers are being told to go home and make some babies. Allegedly, correcting the low birth rate in Japan is a way to help their f...