Note: The blog Fair and Feminist held a “This is What a Young Feminist Looks Like Blog Carnival” last Friday. The carnival was in response to a recent New York Times article by Gail Collins in which she said that middle-aged women she talks with wonder, “where are the young feminists?” I was a flake [...]

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You know how feminists, including yours truly, have been begging for that nuanced convo about sex, for that place between “virgin” and “whore”? Since years and even decades ago? Well, Therese Schechter, of whom I’ve been a fan since “I Was A Teenage Feminist,” is hard at work doing just that in filmic form. Her [...]

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I’m about a week late on this, but I had to post it! Amid all the bullshit young women get for being sooo ungrateful for feminists and women activists who came before them, here is a refreshing view: Gloria Steinem hopes we take our rights for granted. She tells Joy Behar, who expresses concern about [...]

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The BBC is doing a documentary series on feminism, and last week, an episode aired focusing on young women activists. This could have been a great opportunity to showcase the influential and brave things that young women do every day in the name of women, but instead the BBC took this opportunity to hash out [...]

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You know the drill: every few months, a national publication comes out with an article dissing young feminists and specifically calling out their lack of pro-choice activism. A new blog is saying, “Excuse you.” Meant to make visible the young voices fighting for access to abortion care in the United States, the boldly named “Abortion [...]

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Note: Maya is a feminist blogger who caught my attention when she wrote a smart-ass response to all the hookup culture hubbub of the other week. Here, she defends 27-year-old feminist Twitter-activist Angie Jackson, who live-tweeted her abortion a few weeks ago to demystify and deshame the procedure (check out one of Angie’s YouTube videos [...]

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Debates about “hooking up,” swinging from genuine concern to hysteria on both sides of political spectrum, have been raging throughout the 2000s.* And this week, it’s seemed to bubble up to the surface again. I’ve spent the day reading ruminations by teen girl expert and Teen Vogue advice columnist Rachel Simmons, the always-thought provoking Kate [...]

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Continuing with my sex ed series (which I didn’t realize I was doing, but I guess I am!), may I present a convo I recently had with the pro-sex feminist bad-ass, Heather Corinna. Heather is the thirtysomething director of Scarleteen, the most popular sex-ed web resource for teens, a veteran feminist activist and author of [...]

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Excuse me, but why are there still  articles like these coming out about how young women neglected to vote for Hillary Clinton? The latest, in WaPo this past weekend, recounts how former vice-presidental candidate Geraldine Ferraro lost it when her daughter didn’t vote for Clinton. An excerpt: Ferraro was livid, and distraught. What more did [...]

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