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Wikileaks 101: Media Roundup, And Technology that Truly Empowers
For those of you who haven’t heard, Julian Assange, founder and editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, the non-profit media organization responsible for releasing a host of otherwise unavailable documents from...
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The Feministing Five: Ben Privot
Ben Privot has made it his personal mission to, in his own words, “present consent as extremely sexy”. And he’s off to a fantastic start. His brand new initiative, The Consensual Project (TCP), was...
View ArticleThe Feministing Five: Nancy Schwartzman
Nancy Schwartzman is a filmmaker and activist, and the creator of The Line Campaign. The campaign, which is based on Schwartzman’s documentary The Line, promotes a healthy and nuanced conversation...
View ArticleThank You Thursday: PINK loves CONSENT
For a couple of hours earlier this week, Victoria’s Secret–known for its push-up bras and cultural appropriation–gained some serious feminist cred. Midday on Monday, a website for a “new line,” PINK...
View ArticleGender and empathy: Men shouldn’t need to “imagine if it were your...
Stassa Edwards, a new mother of a baby boy, has a really great piece on rape culture and how we teach our sons about consent. She notes that after reading about the Steubenville case, she asked herself...
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Weekly Feminist GIF
WHEN A DEFENSE ATTORNEY TRIES TO ARGUE THAT AN UNCONSCIOUS RAPE VICTIM CONSENTED BECAUSE “SHE DIDN’T AFFIRMATIVELY SAY NO.”
View ArticleA simple guide to handling a drunk girl passed out on your couch
Found a drunk girl passed out on your couch? Unsure of what to do in this situation? Here’s a quick instructional video. This guide is applicable for people of any gender and may be adjusted as needed...
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Quick Hit: How to not be Trent Mays
One of the strangest things I encounter in anti-violence work is the number of people (usually young men) who are desperately afraid that, if we start really cracking down on rape, they will end up in...
View ArticleDaily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Feminist in-fighting is still a problem. Why aren’t men funny? “Newsrooms should also hire a few journalists who aren’t effete liberal p*ssies.” A class analysis of Jason Collins’ announcement....
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NSA surveillance and the male gaze. Racist of the Week Paulina Deen has been fired. But, before that, she inspired some really great tweets. The Department of Ed will collect data on anti-LGBT...
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Feminist pranksters create fake Playboy “guide to a consensual good time”
The awesome feminist pranksters at FORCE are at it again. The activist group behind that fake consent-themed lingerie line at Victoria’s Secret, along with a coalition of college students from 25...
View ArticleStatement about my “Age & Consent” post
Editor’s note: Sesali made the decision to take down the original post. Here is a statement from her: My original post, about my experience with consent was an excerpt from something on my personal...
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Explicit Content: A brief intro to Trap Feminism
Among other things, I’ve identified as a hip hop feminist. The term does the job of expressing my engagement in a culture of commodified blackness. I’ve also talked here about how hood feminism...
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Do we really still not get that “no means no”?
Understanding “no means no” is an important step in eliminating rape culture. It’s a simple enough concept. If someone says that do not want to have sex, they do not want to have sex. You should stop...
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On texting, boundaries, and consent
The panties seen ’round the world A few months ago, I received a Kickstarter perk for being a contributor to FORCE’s fundraising campaign. As someone deeply passionate about feminist, anti-sexual...
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Weekly Feminist Reader
Consent, the mixtape: ”To say that love is the overriding theme of pop music is misleading.” A step by step of what the Hobby Lobby / personhood Supreme Court case really means. Poverty and...
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“Affirmative consent” just means mutual desire. And it should definitely be...
In response to a proposed California bill that would implement an “affirmative consent” standard on college campuses, there’s been a number of misinformed and often straight-up hysterical reactions...
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New Favorite Tumblr: I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault
I Believe You | It’s Not Your Fault is a space for older folks to offer support to young people dealing with the bullshit of rape culture alone. The site was started by Lindy West after a woman writer...
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Reminder: Don’t look at those stolen nude images of female celebs
No doubt you’ve heard by now of the Great Celebrity Naked Photo Leak of 2014. Thanks to an asshole hacker on 4chan, we now have proof that – as Roxane Gay notes – “beneath their clothes, celebrities...
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California now has the nation’s first “affirmative consent” law
We’re giving a very enthusiastic “hell yes” to this news. The so-called “yes means yes” bill passed by the California state legislature last month, which establishes a standard of affirmative consent...
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