Beatrice Biira, the "Beatrice" of Beatrice's Goat, graduated from Connecticut College last weekend and is headed to the Clinton School of Public Service in Arkansas for her Master's degree before going back to Uganda to work for a non-profit. Beatrice's family's rise out of poverty was aided by Heifer International,…
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The current kid-friendly pro-choice mantra is "Safe, legal and rare," which reflects a popular understanding that…
As we're all well aware, one of the many prongs in the fundie battle for control of our uteri is to call the…
As someone with a love of good feminist SciFi, I was saddened that NPR's review of Sarah Hall's Daughters of the North
Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody has become the first woman to be nominated as a four-star general, a position that…
They got on O'Reilly last night to say that they're so mad at the Democratic Party over sexism directed at Hillary…
Here's a reminder of what the pro-choice movement is supposed to be fighting: the anti-choice movement. I put this…
I have a very low tolerance for body insecurity in my relationships with men. It might be because I don't have the world's best body, but I assume if a guy is trying to get my clothes off, he's already pretty well aware I'm not skinny and likes me anyway and wants to see me naked so I don't worry about it. And now…
There's been a lot of debate and backlash about Michael Sokolove's New York Times Magazine article on the rash of…
British newspapers are reporting today that an 8 year old girl walked up to a group of Iraqi soldiers in Youssifiyah today and blew up. Although early reports are calling it a suicide bombing, the explosives were apparently detonated via remote. Question: is"suicide" the right word? Can an eight year old girl "choose"…
Researchers at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, in cooperation with Chilean winemaker Aurelio Montes, have found that people's impression of how good a wine tastes can be improved when paired with the right... music. Montes himself plays Gregorian chants to improve the quality of his wine, but the researchers…
All is not well in the land of Oprah. As O: The Oprah Magazine editor Lisa Kogan explains, female staffers at the…
- Hillary Clinton won't wear Donna Karan anymore because it makes her look too well-dressed. Four words, Hillary:…
Love the sinner, hate the sin? Not if you're Catholic you don't. In 2004, the now-Pope barred pro-choice politicians from accepting Communion, though most of them (like all other pro-choice Catholics) basically ignored him. Now there's a hubbub because some whiny guy from Lancaster saw a priest give Communion to…
In a new study that has left researchers puzzled and concerned, it turns out that 33% of men and 23% of women in…
John Edwards brought his own special brand of nice-guy hotness to Morning Joe this morning and, under intense questioning by Mika Brzezinski, admits that he voted for someone in last Tuesday's primary and that he will likely endorse that person eventually. But he insists that he won't reveal who that person is…
In order to deal with the paparazzi problem in L.A., the city of Malibu has turned to that savior of the legal system, Pepperdine Law School Dean Ken Starr. Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich is going to pay Starr "to convene a group of experts in the media and legal community to help draft a city ordinance" to do something, an…
Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the…
- After last night's fellatio-esque interview of John McCain, reporters ask Jon Stewart if he's a real journalist and i…
The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled this week that the Islamic practice of talaq violates a woman's right to due…