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Feminism Isn’t Harmful For Millennial Women… 22-Year-Old Feminist Responds To Claims Made By “The Feminist Fixer” Suzanne Venker

Guest ContributorMay 30, 2019

By Sarah Olson - Feminism’s over-enthusiastic message has led to crippling debt and plummeting marriage rates among millennials, according to “The Feminist Fix...

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A New Society: How 300 Social Experts Are Addressing Gender Inequality

Guest ContributorApril 25, 2019

By Mously Lo - “If you ask me whether I am an academic or an activist, I would have to say both. I cannot imagine one without the other,” muses women’s rights ...

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Botanist, Artist, Nurse, And Teacher: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Western Legacies

Guest ContributorApril 23, 2019

By Wynne Brown - It was most likely a bitter cold December day in 1869 as the wooden side-wheeled steamer churned through the New York City harbor. Sara Plumme...

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You Have the Right To Take Up Space: A Guide To Flying While Fat

Guest ContributorApril 12, 2019

I have a mantra that I say every time I prepare for a flight: "You have the right to take up space." I repeat it over and over like a meditation. I say it in m...

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Stomping Stigmas: My Real Talk On Malignant Divorce, An Opioid Addicted Child, And Depression

Guest ContributorApril 10, 2019

By Timna Zucker - It’s been awhile. A long while…since I have been me. Since I have been writing. Much has gone on…most of which you would not believe if I tol...

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Vulvas: Officially Scarier Than Satan

Guest ContributorApril 10, 2019

A cartoon from the 1800s shows the devil being chased off by a woman lifting her skirts, because vulvas are apparently worse than the source of all evil.By...

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From Where I Stand: “If women are empowered, we can create more peaceful societies” – Papiya Parvin, Bangladesh

Guest ContributorMarch 26, 2019

By UN Women - Papiya Parvin from Debhata Upazilla, Bangladesh, has just bought a cow to start her own farm. She is also the first woman from her village who tr...

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From Syria To Turkey… One Woman’s Story On Rebuilding Her Life And Business

Guest ContributorMarch 21, 2019

By Angela Wells - Like many hopeful new graduates around the world, Dara wanted to take a leap of faith. In 2013, after earning her bachelor’s degree in interi...

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Nkeiruka Obi, Banker Turned Champion Of Children With Clefts And Their Mothers, On How We Can All Be Humanitarians

Guest ContributorMarch 8, 2019

By Nkeiruka Obi - Here’s the story of a woman you should know: Konate Diomande Siami, a mother from Côte d’Ivoire in Africa who gave birth to five children, th...

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