Celebrating Feminist Progress On International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (March 8th) makes us wax nostalgic about our favorite feminist icons (Gloria Steinem, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sarah Weddington, Hillary Clinton, Madonna). There are so many women...
View Article‘The Cosby Show’: One of the Most Feminist Shows of All Time?
I’ve been overdosing on Cosby Show reruns (6-7 p.m. EST weekdays on Centric!), and watching the series as an adult, I’ve discovered something surprising: It’s feminist. Like way feminist. Like...
View ArticleSexy Feminism Excerpt: Compromise in Marriage Doesn’t Mean Throwing Out Feminism
To celebrate the publication of our book, Sexy Feminism, we’ll be sharing some short excerpts of it with you, the readers who helped make this book possible! Here, a portion of our chapter, “Feminist...
View ArticleSEXY FEMINISM Out Today!
Our book, SEXY FEMINISM, is out today. Order now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, or iTunes. Here’s a little bit about it: In Sexy Feminism (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),...
View ArticleLinks for Sexy Feminists: Anne Hathaway, Ovarian Cancer, Ending Rape and more
Modern Stardom: Anne Hathaway has been surprisingly polarizing since at least her victory speech at this year’s Oscars, and sexism is clearly at play. Like it or leave it, this is what celebrity...
View ArticleThe Sexy Feminist Polls: The Most Important Issue Facing Feminism, Your...
With more than 500 voters logging responses to our recent Sexy Feminist polls, we thought it would be fun to break down some of the results. According to Sexy Feminist readers … The most important...
View ArticleFemale Condoms: Sexy and Empowering or ‘Ew’?
Dr. Donna Espeut takes on the female condom debate in this guest post. For some of us, male condoms are the go-to, dual-protection method, even though there are other options in our cache of safer sex...
View ArticleSexy Feminism Excerpt: Lessons Learned from Dieting
To celebrate the publication of our book, Sexy Feminism, we’ll be sharing some short excerpts of it with you, the readers who helped make this book possible! My dieting history is totally cliché and...
View ArticleRandom Lessons In Feminist History: Miss America (Really)
In our new book, Sexy Feminism, we share ways to add feminism to every day activities. Your beauty routine, for example, can totally be a feminist act. But there are some institutions that are the oil...
View ArticleLinks for Sexy Feminists: Life After Steubenville, Hillary for Gay Marriage,...
After Steubenville: Mainstream media coverage of the trial outcome focused on the repercussions for the perpetrators, even though they are not the victims here. One independent commentator points out...
View ArticleSexy Feminism Excerpt: Plastic Surgery — Can You?
Leading up to the publication of our book, Sexy Feminism, on March 12, we’ll be sharing some short excerpts of it with you, the readers who helped make this book possible! Here, a portion of our...
View ArticleI Didn’t Get Married, But I Changed My Name
During a certain period of my life, the realizations that I could not marry this person came at me so often that I took to ignoring them. Among them was the time my fiancé seemed shocked that I...
View ArticleLinks for Sexy Feminists: Marriage Equality, lessons from Steubenville, and...
Marriage Equality: The Supreme Court has now heard two cases, each of which could lead to a redefinition of marriage. There is also a chance that the court could refuse to redefine marriage, instead...
View ArticleSexy Feminist: Mindy Kaling
In a way, Mindy Kaling is the anti-Zooey Deschanel, the anti-Lena Dunham. Whereas Deschanel and Dunham seem to stoke intense ire just by existing (congratulations, Anne Hathaway, you just joined this...
View ArticleLessons from Our SEXY FEMINISM Panel
Last night, I had the honor of moderating a panel filled with some of my favorite feminist ladies discussing the big issues of the day (that’s Lean In and gay marriage to you) at Word Bookstore in...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from Being ‘Gay Married’
Last July, my boyfriend Jesse and I moved in together. The next day, we went to New York City Hall and got “gay married” — that is, we became (heterosexual) domestic partners. We’re among the many...
View ArticleTranslating Female Pop Stars’ Quotes on Feminism
The media likes to ask female pop stars about feminism. A lot. In fact, for some reason, young female singers are bombarded with this question so much that it has become its own news category. When...
View ArticleLinks for Sexy Feminists: Men’s Rights Activists, More Steubenville Fallout,...
Death to the Patriarchy: Jezebel’s inimitable Lindy West succinctly breaks down why everything MRAs rail against are symptoms of patriarchy, not feminism. Continuing the Steubenville Dialogue: A U of...
View ArticleWomen in the World Wrap-Up: Remembering Nora Ephron, saving women’s lives,...
We were lucky enough to be among the hundreds of women gathered in New York Friday for the Daily Beast’s Women in the World summit, where we were inspired by Hillary Clinton, Oprah, and many other...
View ArticleSexy Feminism Excerpt: Feminist Beauty Companies
To celebrate the publication of our book, Sexy Feminism, we’ll be sharing some short excerpts of it with you, the readers who helped make this book possible! Consider these feminist-minded companies...
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