Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

I’m thrilled to see that the states are ready to stand up for our voting rights at this crossroads of history.

States' Response To Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Requests? "Nah, Bro."

One by one, states have issued responses to Trump's voter fraud commission that range from very polite citations of the laws preventing them from releasing the data to cheeky clap backs at this latest POTUS overreach.

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Police Search For Passerby Heroes Who Rescued Bus Crash Victims

Before EMS could get to the scene, about a dozen people lifted the bus up and got all the passengers out to administer aid.

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Image: Instagram

Could Erin O'Flaherty Be The First Openly Gay Miss America?  

Erin O'Flaherty, Miss Missouri, is the first openly gay Miss America contestant.

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BREAKING: Purity Rings Don't Work

30% of girls who took purity pledges experienced pregnancy before marriage. To put that into perspective: only 18% of non-pledgers experienced pregnancy before marriage.

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Short answer: It's complicated.

Ask A Feminist: Can I Be A Feminist If I Don't Like Gay People?

Sexual orientation is not a lifestyle and gay people are not a monolith. Much as women are all individuals with different wants, needs, and preferences, so are gay people, bi people, asexual people, polyamorous people, and pansexual people (also people who present gender differently that the usual male/female binary but gender identity is a different thing than sexual orientation and will likely be the subject of a whole different essay).

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Please Don't Buy These Vagina Pearls

Dr. Gunter has lots of medical reasons why one should not do this (as well as a stomach-turning description of a “retained tampon” removal, so be warned). I have a lay-person’s response: OMG DON’T DO THAT TO YOUR PERFECTLY GOOD VAGINA!

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Periods are a valid reason to stay home from work.

Menstrual Vacation! Paid Time Off For Cramps. Amen.

Some people think periods are blessed celebrations of the cycles of womanhood and its connection to the earth.

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Image via Eva Longoria's Twitter: @EvaLongoria

Eva Longoria Blesses Us With Epic Emoji Keyboard

Grab your iPhones and launch the app store! There’s a new emoji keyboard out there, and you are going to want to grab it!

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What If There's No Becky?

Ok, Lemonade Nation (LemoNation?). I’m stuck on Becky With the Good Hair. I can’t stop reading theories about who it might be. Is it Rachel Roy? It’s not Rachael Ray. Maybe it’s Rita Ora? It can’t be Iggy Azalea, though this piece called her Darth Becky and it’s so good. Is it Rihanna? WHO IS BECKY?

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Catholic Church Tells Women Seeking Priesthood Not To Hold Their Breath

Remember how a couple of weeks ago we talked about how the

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