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Read one Texas abortion doctor’s scathing ultrasound informed consent form

In Texas, abortion doctors are required by law to perform an ultrasound and display and describe the image to their patient before the procedure. But the state can’t mandate that they be happy about this intrusion into the sacred doctor-patient relationship.

By Alexandra Brodsky • 1 day ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

“What should I do with my face while I walk down the hallway alone at school?”

Tuesday is Native American women’s equal pay day.

“What should I do with my face while I walk down the hallway alone at school?”

Tuesday is Native American women’s equal pay day.

By Dana Bolger • 1 day ago

Quote of the Day: “You should not get rich over people getting raped”

This week, 23 faculty and administrators released an online campus climate survey to improve universities’ understanding of the problem of gender violence on their particular campuses. Various climate surveys have been on the market for years; the difference with this one? It’s free.

By Sesali B. • 1 day ago

Boss Wives, Boss Chicks: Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s sexual scripts and binaries

This season of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta was underwhelming to say the least. The character storylines were edited down to the most basic level, relying on petty gender and sexuality binaries (straight/gay, single/married, etc.).

By Alexandra Brodsky • 1 day ago

CBS Denver tries to cover sexism against journalist, is sexist

Chase Olivarius-McAllister is an accomplished journalist. As an award-winning reporter with the Durango Herald, she wrote about issues from labor exploitation to environmental disaster.

By Maya Dusenbery • 2 days ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Mysterious Italian novelist Elena Ferrante is annoyed about speculation that’s she’s actually a man.

A Catholic woman who’s had an abortion on what the Pope’s new order means to her.

“Emotional labor isn’t a silly fluffy girl skill. It’s a life skill.” And more men need to practice it.

Mysterious Italian novelist Elena Ferrante is annoyed about speculation that’s she’s actually a man.

A Catholic woman who’s had an abortion on what the Pope’s new order means to her.

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By Mahroh Jahangiri • 2 days ago

Poetry Break: Warsan Shire’s “Home” and the refugee crisis

“You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”

By Maya Dusenbery • 2 days ago

Texas abortion clinics take their appeal to the Supreme Court

Pro-choice advocates and abortion providers in Texas have filed a formal petition asking the Supreme Court to hear their case against the anti-choice restrictions that threaten to close all but ten of the state’s clinics.

By Katherine Cross • 2 days ago

In this together: Pay attention to Europe’s refugee crisis

For weeks now the so-called “Migrants Crisis” has dominated headlines in Europe. While I traveled across the continent a few weeks ago it was a top story again and again in the UK, Sweden, and Denmark, with headlines blaring out from airport and railway newsagents’ in a dozen languages.