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- December 21st, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Cynthia Nixon\'s pro-choice activism
I love me some Cynthia Nixon. She is a talented actress (who is smokin' hot) and 100% open about her sexuality. What I didn't know is that she's also a vocal pro-choice activist. An article today on C…
- December 18th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Men creating their own "Vagina Monologues"
I noticed a recent post in The Sexist about an all-male production in Washington, D.C. called "Deez Nuts" that basically markets itself as The Vagina Monologues for men.Creating male Vagina Monologues…
- December 17th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Sen. Boxer dislikes double standards
THANK YOU, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), for calling out the fact that women's access to health care and reproductive services is constantly under attack, yet the medicines (i.e. Viagra) and procedure…
- December 12th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Disney parody video pokes fun at Jews
I saw this on Huffington Post, and it made me think. It's a parody video that basically shows Disney filmmakers constructing a movie about the first "Jewish American Princess," entitled Rachel and the…
- December 11th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Sotomayor makes history (again)
As feminists, we know that language is important. Telling our friends to use "she or he" instead of simply "he," "you all" instead of "you guys," or "people of color" instead of "colored people," is a…
- December 10th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Burqa Barbie
In Italy, you can find "Burqa Barbies" on display at an exhibit, being auctioned off as a fundraiser for the Italian branch of Save the Children.Barbara Kay of the National Post, who asked, "Why is th…
- December 9th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Rachel Maddow interviews gay conversion \'therapist\'
Watch Rachel Maddow take on one of those "gay people can become straight with therapy!" nuts. It's awesome.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- December 8th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Senate REJECTS restrictions on abortion coverage
In a 54 to 45 vote, the Senate has rejected the anti-choice effort to eliminate insurance coverage for abortions.Majority Leader Harry Reid said the legislation is about access to health care, and not…
- December 6th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Feminist Holiday Gift Guide
If you're gift-giving this holiday season, here's your Feminist Gift Guide to go by. Use it to find the perfect present for the feminist(s) in your life, or put what you like on your wishlist for you…
- December 3rd, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Keep abortion covered by insurance!
I don't know about you, but I'm incredibly freaked out about the assault on abortion coverage, carried out by anti-choice politicians through health care reform. The Hyde amendment has been in place f…
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Porn doesn\'t affect how men view women... says 20 dudes
There's no other way to introduce this story than Tracy Clark-Flory's (of Salon.com) way:It's official: Pornography doesn't affect men's view of women. This breaking news comes by way of 20 young men…
- December 2nd, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Same-sex marriage in NY: not quite yet
New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage Bill.My heart just broke.
- December 1st, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
World AIDS Day 2009
There are approximately 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide.If that number scares you... it should. It should scare you into ensuring that you get an HIV test regularly if you are at ri…
- November 30th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Anti-feminists are still telling lies
If you need your daily dose of disgust, head on over to Men's News Daily to check out Paul Elam's charming article, "The Myth of Women's Oppression." In it, he so ignorantly compares women's oppressio…
- November 29th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
CPCs to be regulated in Baltimore
Crisis pregnancy centers, establishments that pose as clinics out to help pregnant women but in actuality are run by anti-choice staff, are prevalent across the country. Unfortunately, CPCs have a ten…
- November 26th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
- November 23rd, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Not even equality in the after-life
Governor Carcieri, of Rhode Island, has decided that "domestic partners" can't be buried next to each other, i.e. same-sex couples."This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of t…
- November 21st, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
The Hanger Project
Amplify has created what they have called The Hanger Project, made to spread awareness about the restrictions anti-choice legislators are trying to put on abortion through the health care reform bill.…
- November 20th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Transgender Day of Rememberance 09\'
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to remembering those who have been killed by transphobic murderers. The very first TDOR was held on November 28th, 1998 to honor Rita Heste…
- November 19th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Update on abortion coverage ban
Here's the deal.The Senate healthcare bill that was revealed yesterday does not include the Stupak language in it, thankfully.However, the bill does include the long-standing Hyde Amendment, which pro…
- November 18th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Protest the Stupak amendment!
Important information: Planned Parenthood has organized a National Day of Action to protest the unacceptable Stupak amendment. This day of action is:Wednesday, December 2nd.You can join the anti-Stupa…
- November 13th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Women: you are NEVER safe
A great new "Target Women" is up, and I'm so happy that my Sarah covered this topic, since these Broadview Security commercials have been seriously freaking me out lately. Every single one is the same…
- November 11th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Update on same-sex marriage in NY
As some of you might have heard, rumors were flying that the state senate was supposed to vote yesterday on whether or not to consider legalizing same-sex marriage in New York. As a proud New Yorker,…
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Feminists against the Stupak amendment
If you were as devastated as I was about the passing of the Stupak Amendment, you might feel a little better when reading the Feminist Majority Foundation's press release about what happens now:The fi…
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Feminism and poker
If you're a card-playing feminist, shoot on over to Lady Junkie's feminist poker blog. Start by reading some lovely interviews Lady Junkie conducted recently with feminist bloggers, including yours tr…
- November 10th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
White people \'saving\' people of color in films
This is a trailer for a new movie coming out, called "The Blind Side."This is a concept that has been covered by quite a few films: the privileged white person coming in and fixing the lives of Black…
- November 8th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Health care reform bill disappointing, to say the least
As most of you probably heard, the health care reform bill that passed Saturday night was anything but woman-friendly. Thanks to the Stupak amendment, our reproductive health care access has been seve…
- November 7th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Advancements in women\'s rights in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
Two positive pieces of news regarding women's rights in the Middle East:In Pakistan, the National Assembly passed a law increasing the penalty for sexual harassment. It now must be passed in the senat…
- November 4th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Maine repeals same-sex marriage law
Yesterday, in a move that resembled the famous Prop 8 debate in California, voters in Maine decided to repeal the state's new law that allowed same-sex marriage.I was horrified when I heard this. It's…
- October 29th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
I love Le Tigre
I can't believe I've never gotten into Le Tigre before. Sure, I've heard of them, but I never appreciated their awesome-ness. While searching for music to play on my feminist radio show (listen online…
- October 27th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Onlookers did nothing while teenager was raped
This is horrifying.In California, a 15-year-old girl was beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance for two hours on Friday night.According to police, there were as many as a dozen…
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Colbert smokes same-sex marriage opponents
Once again, Stephen Colbert exposes the pure stupidity that forms the foundation for the anti-gay marriage movement. Love it.
- October 25th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Buffet of the Week
Check out The New York Times' "Women at Arms" series, which "explores how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have profoundly redefined the role of women in the military."In the Philippines, where aborti…
- October 23rd, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
The Business of Being Born
I watched a GREAT documentary with some of my feminist friends last night: "The Business of Being Born." It's a film about how in the U.S., women are often pressured to partake in the typical hospital…
- October 22nd, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Hate crimes bill passes Senate
A bill aimed at fighting hate crimes against LGBTQ people, entitled the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act, named after two young men who lost their lives to hate crimes eleven years ago, has pas…
- October 20th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Fox \'News\' loves to distort facts
Why I love Huffington Post: they do things like compile a list of "The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions."Aww, only ten?Among those on the list: taking Obama's and Biden's quotes out of context,…
- October 19th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Women are the majority of the U.S. workforce
For the first time in history - and herstory - women have become the majority of paid U.S. workers. The recently released Shriver Report: A Women's Nation Changes Everything determined that women are…
- October 17th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
National Women\'s History Museum Act
Currently, some wonderful folks over at the Women's History Museum are working hard to get a bill passed to establish a museum of women's history (ahem... herstory) near the National Mall in Washingto…
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Size four model fired for being \'too fat\'
As if we needed another reason to hate Ralph Lauren, it has now come out that the model they were caught photoshopping to look emaciated and distorted has been fired. Why did they fire her? Because at…
- October 16th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
LA judge denies interracial couple a marriage license
I just have a question: WHAT YEAR IS THIS?Because clearly it must be 1960. Surely it isn't 2009 because I thought we left this bullshit in the past.The racist judge, Keith Bardwell, said he denied the…
- October 14th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Jon Stewart calls out lack of coverage for gay rights march
Once again, my lover, Jon Stewart, calls mainstream media out on their bullshit. In this episode: Fox News gives more coverage to an empty sidewalk than the Equality March.
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Gay man in Queens brutally beaten
A horrifying video has been released showing surveillance footage of a 49 year-old gay man, Jack Price, being brutally beaten by two men who yelled anti-gay slurs. Price was attacked in Queens, right…
- October 12th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Reconsider Columbus Day
This video seems to be making its rounds in the blogosphere on what has been deemed as "Columbus Day," a day to honor a man who deserves no honoring.It is time to reconsider Columbus Day.Teachers who…
- October 11th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
National Coming Out Day '09
Happy Coming Out Day!I wish I could be in D.C. for the National Equality March. Anyone who went: tell me your experiences! The Huffington Post also covered the march and has some great photos from it.…
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Obama's speech on gay rights
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyThoughts?
- October 10th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Ralph Lauren apologizes for ultra-thin model
(Left: the photoshopped image. Right: the real model)Well, Ralph Lauren has finally apologized after getting caught photoshopping one of their models to look like she belongs on the cover of a pamphle…
- October 9th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
Cupcakes for Life!
Found this via Feministing, and it's just too great to not share. In case you were wondering how to make anti-choice cupcakes, "Cupcakes for Life" has got your back.There's even a National Pro-Life Cu…
- October 8th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
iPhone app lets you look up skirts
Want to be a disgusting perverted peeping tom? There's an app for that.
- October 7th, 2009
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amyru has posted a new entry on: Appetite for Equal Rights
