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Most people find romantic relationships through coworkers, colleagues, friends, the gym they go to every weekend, and other non transitory means. Not by asking random people for numbers. And yet, every single time, without fail, when there is a discussion about dating men will always start whining about how women are supermeanie-pants about giving away …

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Declaration of Sentiments

Seneca Falls Convention, 1848_______________________________________________________________________________When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent …

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thoughts on lipstick feminism and reclaiming sexuality

Makeover Feminism in a tube.Beginning with the term. "Lipstick" feminism? I mean, really?Look, I wear lipstick. Red lipstick, if that gives any hint to what kind of person I am. I just don't want my lipstick to define me. I want... to define my lipstick. Let's start over. As belittling as I find the term, …

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Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: A’isha

Okay, so we do hear a lot about A'isha, the Prophet's third wife--but not the same woman. The A'isha the world knows today is very different than the A'isha who existed in reality. With patriarchy purposefully modifying Islamic history, we have false information about even her age.A'isha was nineteen when she married the Prophet (not …

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