Pairing a headline like "The sensual art of belly dancing works for women of all shapes, sizes, and ages" with picture of three skinny, twenty-something, white chicks kind of misses the point.
Once again due to my scattered web browsing style of opening a whole lot of tabs and then forgetting to go back to them until I have 5 other browser windows that are also completely full of tabs, I bring you yet another list 'o links.
The Rule aka the Bechdel-Wallace Test aka the Mo Movie Measure. Said movie must satisfy three requirements to pass
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I have written a bit about how my classes this semester are frustrating and depressing me. I have written even less about how my teachers and people in the class are so amazing. Sure, there's always a dose of the stupid, but the classes (lets be fair, excluding logic) are full of intelligent inspiring amazing people
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20 years ago today, the Supreme Court of Canada made a decision in R. v. Morgentaler. The provision in the Criminal Code regarding abortion was determined to be unconstitutional, violating a woman's right to security of person as outlines in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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I used the richtext editor to post this so I could get lazy with links. So hopefully it doesn't look super weird next to all my other posts. I was going to cut for length, but then half of you will probably just not click anyways. It will give your mouse fingers a work out scrolling past it then :D
Kate Harding is my new hero. In between my
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18 years ago today, a man walked into L'École Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women. For being women. It seems odd somehow that my final for my Women and Sexuality class is due today. I really enjoyed that class, and though women have been punished for showing their sexuality over the years, it seems odd to have a sad day associated with
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To stop self censoring content on my livejournal because I'm afraid of the resulting (negative) comments that may appear when posting about, in particular, feminist content. (holy run on sentence batman
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