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Does The Media Tell Us the Whole Story?
Today in my Feminism-Minimester, the Executive Director of Media Literacy Project, Andrea Quijada, came to talk to my class about how to analyze media. She brought up great points about commercials and...
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How We Fail Trafficked American Girls
When I say child sex trafficking, what pops into your mind? Street children in the Philippines, maybe? Illegal brothels in Cambodia and Ukraine? I can tell you what you’re definitely not thinking...
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Feminist Media: Because “Gratitude Never Radicalized Anybody”
When I think about how feminist media plays a role in my understanding of feminism today, I am immediately reminded of something Susan B. Anthony once said of her work in the suffrage movement: “Our...
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Media Matters: The Importance of Media for the Feminist Movement
Through the media, people learn a lot about a society’s culture. Movies, music, and books are just a small portion of media that people use daily. Some of the media people see in our culture is...
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Women: “The Oppressed Majority” and the Effects of the Media
In our time, the thing that holds the most power all over the world is the media. No one lives through one day, where they haven’t had some connection to the Internet, television, newspaper, billboards...
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I Need Feminist Art and Media. So Do You.
I need feminism because I am a girl figuring out how to be a woman (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). I need feminism. I need feminism because I have never felt so aware. I have never felt more at home in...
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I Need Feminism Because I am Blind Without It
I need feminism because women are half our population and deserve to be treated as so (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). The feminist fight is one that the general public tends to sweep under the carpet....
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I Want to Become a Feminist Role Model
“I need feminism because with it, I can achieve the purity of vision I need to understand what surrounds me and start creating the change we need.” (Photo credit: Ileana Jiménez) When I entered my high...
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Why I Need Feminism: Stop the Girl on Girl Crimes!
“I need feminism because I’ve got a lot on my plate without a side order of racist, classist, conformist, capitalist, patriarchal bullshit.” (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). When faced with the...
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It’s Time for a Feminist Makeover
“I need feminism because the world needs a makeover”(Photo Credit: Ileana Jiménez) I need feminism because the world needs a makeover. The world deserves the same feminist makeover that my classmates...
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Finding My Feminist Stand Through Media and the Arts
“I need feminism because…I wasn’t born in BOX.” (Photo credit:Ileana Jiménez). I need feminism because I wasn’t born in a box. I should not have to live in a world where I feel like my gender and my...
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Girl Activists Working to End Gender-Based Violence Speak Out
My feminist classmates and I with the girl activist panelists at the US Mission to the UN (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). On Tuesday, December 3, a few of my high school feminist classmates and I...
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Global Feminism: Not Just For India But For All of Us
An illustration depicting global feminism Credit: Gawk | Global Feminisms As Audre Lorde points out, “Black feminism is not white feminism in black face.” This means that while being a woman comes with...
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Rape and Sexual Harassment: Survivors Speak Out
According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse, And Incest, National Network), “every 107 seconds, another American is sexually assaulted” and “each year, there are about 293,000 victims of sexual assault.” These...
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Let’s Stop Body Shaming and Start Body Loving Ourselves
Image from Eachbodysready Facebook page If everyone in the world were a product, some people would sell out before others. This is a result of body shaming. The beautiful, the impressive, and the...
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Black Womanhood: A Self-Revelation
“Black women have a long tradition of bonding together. We have a distinct Black woman-identified folk culture based on our experiences as Black women in this society; symbols, language and modes of...
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