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Aging Alone Isn’t Just for Lesbians: We Are All Vulnerable

For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text...

Rebecca Gordon, September 22, 2023

Mom and Apple Pie

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Me Too Movement: A History of Women Taking Charge

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Romance Novels Are a Weapon Against Misogyny

Hans-Georg Betz, July 26, 2019

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The World-Changing Idea of Girl Power

May 27, 2019

by Dianne Post

Surrogacy: Erasing the Mother

January 9, 2019

by Veena Trehan

#MeToo: Breaking the Silence

December 15, 2017

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Honor is the New Black

October 31, 2017

by Chiara Capraro & Francesca Rhodes

Why the Panama Papers Are a Feminist Issue

April 25, 2016

by Ozichi Emeziem

As a Nigerian, This is What Feminism Means to Me

March 25, 2015

by Benjamin Wiacek

Meet a Yemeni Feminist

October 26, 2013

by Wanda Krause

Competing Voices: Gender and Ideology in Egypt

October 23, 2013

by Maya Shlayen

Whose Porn, Whose Feminism?

October 23, 2013

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Whose Porn, Whose Feminism?

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