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Remembering

This selection of photos of people who passed away in 2011 is beautiful, and will make you cry.

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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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Girl-on-Girl Victim-Blaming Action (or, The Most Terrible Time of the Year)

This is a guest-post from Jaclyn Friedman.
[trigger warning for the text and the embedded links]
What is it about December that inspires mass breakouts of victim-blaming? Is it the darkness encroaching on our days? Is it the way the holidays make us all want to drink? Whatever it is, it’s happening again.

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Goodbye, Mr. Hitchens

I don’t expect that Christopher Hitchens will be a favorite among Feministe readers, but he is a personal favorite of mine. Often wrong, often sexist, a total alcoholic misogynist disaster, but — a phenomenal writer, a modern philosopher, a true curmudgeon. I have a soft spot for people who, though they may be wrong sometimes [...]

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First Intersex Mayor for Melbourne

Melbourne has Australia’s first openly intersex Mayor following the election of long time queer community supporter and advocate Councillor Tony Briffa to the top position at the City of Hobsons Bay at the end of November.

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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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Day of Remembrance.

This is late, but important. As many of you probably know, yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre – during which a man named Marc Lepine killed 14 women because he was “fighting feminism”. Yesterday, we remembered : Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student [...]

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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Go for it.

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