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The Dangerous Dance Women Do With Numbers

Women are not only defined by percentages, averages, and statistics.

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Stop With The Haterade, #TheDress Will Save Us All

Sometimes, the Internet is a means to our own salvation.

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Shawna Corenjo: Student

Spotted in: Lake Merritt, Oakland

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Grungy Linoleum: A Portrait Of Love

It’s not that I am anti-love. I just think we need to redefine the term.

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Bob Barker Gave Me These Freckles: Suicide In A Patriarchal Society

Suicide is a calculated escape from desperation—it is also a paralytic of the patriarchy, used to thin the herd of potential disruptors.

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Finally Swimming In A Sea Of Truth: After Super Bowl XLIX, I Realize I Am A Left Shark

I’ve been flopping my finlike appendages around, ungracefully out of sync with the rest of society since I was in utero.

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I'm A Feminist Who's Flattered By Catcalling

What kind of feminist must I be if I feel complimented by street harassment?

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Don Lemon, Victim Blaming And The Myth Of The Singular Rape Experience

The CNN reporter's needling of a woman who says Bill Cosby assaulted her illustrates a much larger, and deeply troubling, issue.

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