November 2010
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WatchHardy Girls Healthy Women, founding partner of the SPARK Movement, wants to give girls the opportunity to see their favorite female characters float through the air at the seasonal Macy’s Day Parade.
In the 84-year history of the parade, only 8% of all the balloons were of female characters. That’s 10 out of 129! Macy’s has over 3.5million people lining the New York streets to watch the...
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After Frat's "No Means Yes" Chant, Yale Daily... →
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Following the incident in which Yale’s Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity pledges marched around first-year dorms chanting “no means yes, yes means anal,” the Yale Daily News decided the appropriate response to this was an editorial in the vein of: geez, what do you feminists want anyway?
Beginning with the winner of a title, “The right kind of feminism,” ...
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iHollaback releases anti-street harassment iPhone... →
This week, the group is releasing an iPhone application that allows users to report harassment in seconds. The data is automatically mapped, and a follow-up e-mail from Hollaback asks for a more detailed account of what happened.
Interactive technology is particularly apt for documenting and combating street harassment, said Emily May, the executive director of Hollaback. The more people...
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In Which Duke Encourages Halloween "Slutdom" &... →
An email sent Saturday night to the Sigma Nu fraternity social listserv invited women to its Halloween party, saying “Whether your [sic] dressing up as a slutty nurse, a slutty doctor, a slutty schoolgirl, or just a total slut, we invite you to find shelter in the confines of Partners D,” the Duke Chronicle reported.
A PDF of the invitation, posted on the Duke...
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WatchMiss SPARK Summit? Watch the “Girl Activists Speak Out” Panel, featuring Lexi St. John, Melissa Campbell (pluralisms) and Carmen Rios (carmenrios) and Shelby Knox.
….trust us, it’s awesome.