Via Elizabeth Picket: 1) Read as much as you can about feminist issues and feminist critical thinking … and keep reading. Not just mass media either. In fact, with a very few exceptions, reports about feminists and what they do in the mass media are apt to be oversimplified, sensationalised or outright sexist. 2) Talk … Read More

Via Melissa Harris-Perry: Don’t call first lady a ‘feminist nightmare’ Melissa Harris Perry reads her letter to Washington reporter Michelle Cottle, who called Michelle Obama a “feminist nightmare,” saying Cottle is wrong to write off the first lady’s priorities as fluff. Melissa Harris Perry reads her letter to Washington reporter Michelle Cottle, who called Michelle … Read More

Via GLAAD:  View our 2013 ally PSA series at www.glaad.org/ally View our 2007 ally campaign below.  Be an Ally & a Friend – 2007 Sure, you watchThe Ellen DeGeneres Show on TV, and you “know” Kevin from Brothers & Sisters and Marc on Ugly Betty, but is there someone in your real life who is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender … Read More

Via Derrick Clifton and Everyday Feminism:  September 27, 2014 by Derrick Clifton Originally published on Mic and cross-posted here with their permission. Let’s face it: Most white people don’t like being accused of racism or hearing that they have white privilege. For many whites, these types of accusations have nasty connotations, hearkening back to slavery, colonialism, rape, genocide, segregation, … Read More

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