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Unite Women, Don’t Divide Women
On January 21, 2017, over 5 million people rallied around the world to stand up for women’s rights during the Trump administration....
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Mar 6, 20176 min read


The Ivanka Conondrum
In the latest episode of the Trump administration mixing public governance with private business, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom chose not...
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Feb 25, 20175 min read


Fashion as a Weapon: Resisting the “Glass Cliff” For Women in Politics
Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, uncontestably one of the most powerful convention speeches, stressed...
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Nov 29, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: Dr. Joyce Banda
Dr. Joyce Banda served as the first female president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014 and founded the People’s Party in 2011. Prior to serving...
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Nov 13, 20165 min read


Off The Rack: The fraught history between women’s fashion and women’s politics
Few Americans remember Amelia Bloomer, the fabled feminist who introduced women to the phenomenon of pants. In the 1850s, coinciding with...
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Nov 1, 20163 min read


Mutual Failures: The Clintons, the GOP, and Sexual Violence
Last November, Hillary Clinton declared that “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” In...
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Mar 23, 20167 min read


Zika and the Abortion Rights Debate
What happens when a country without legal abortion tells women not to get pregnant? This was the question many asked when government...
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Mar 18, 20165 min read


Military Fertility in the Era of Egg-Freezing
In December of 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the New Year would bring an end to restrictions on women in the US...
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Feb 24, 20166 min read


Regulating Reproduction: Embryo Custody Versus Abortion
Thecase centered on Dr. Mimi C. Lee and Stephen Findley, her ex-husband. Before their wedding, Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer and...
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Dec 5, 20155 min read


Why Feminists Love The Notorious RBG
Supreme Court Justices, of all the prominent federal officials, have long been shielded from the celebrity that can accompany successful...
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Nov 21, 20154 min read


Combatting Domestic Abuse in South Carolina
South Carolina’s women are being killed. In the past 10 years, more than 300 women have died at the hands of men — that’s one woman every...
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Nov 8, 20155 min read


Gendered Train Cars: A Policy With Mixed Results
This August, before becoming leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn faced backlash in the wake of his proposed plan to prevent sexual...
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Oct 29, 20154 min read


Turkish Soap Operas: A Voice for the Voiceless
In 2008, some 85 million people in the Arab world tuned in to watch the final episode of the breakthrough Turkish television show Gümüş....
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Oct 28, 20155 min read


First Ladies and Lads of the 2016 Presidential Election
On October 3, Saturday Night Live’s forty-first season premiered with a cold opener mocking Donald and Melania Trump. The skit portrayed...
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Oct 25, 20155 min read


Macho (Wo)men in Politics
The United States has a long history of publicizing so-called “macho” men. Over the years, the prototypical macho American man has seen...
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Oct 21, 20155 min read


Killer Women: The Death Penalty and Depictions of Gender
At 12:20 a.m. on September 29, 2015, Kelly Gissendaner was just one of the 53 women on death row throughout the United States. The next...
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Oct 19, 20156 min read


The Falsity of Carly Fiorina’s Feminism
Following an exceptional campaign cycle that has witnessed the rise of multiple candidates peripheral to the party establishment, the GOP...
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Oct 8, 20156 min read


Money Talks
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin,...
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Apr 27, 20154 min read


Safe Space as Resistance
Two weeks ago, a student at Duke University hung a noose outside of the student commons building. Earlier in the month, two-dozen...
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Apr 18, 20156 min read


Fighting Bullies and Rebuilding An Image: How Monica Lewinsky Has Kept Busy
Monica Lewinsky is making a comeback, just in time for the 2016 election. The increased focus on Lewinsky could negatively impact Hillary...
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Apr 11, 20157 min read
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