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Comprehensive Sex Ed: Why It Works
As a high school senior, when it comes to political debate between advocates of comprehensive sex education versus abstinence only education, the political is personal. Having lawmakers decide whether...
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Sexual Harassment in Schools
School is meant to be a safe place for students to learn and grow. Unfortunately sexual harassment between peers has become part of the everyday life of middle and high school students, as revealed by...
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World AIDS Day 2011: Can we really get to zero?
by Meghan Yee The fight to end HIV/AIDS continues today December 1, 2011, World AIDS Day. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency...
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Happy Birthday Roe!
Blog post written by Kelsey Hathaway, Feminist Majority Foundation intern. January 22nd marked the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a landmark case in which the Supreme Court ruled to legalize...
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How the Violence Against Women Act Impacts College Women
Today, the U.S. Senate is expected to make a motion to proceed with a vote to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Since its passing in 1994, this critical piece of legislation has...
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Approval of New Abstinence-Only Program is Dangerous to Girls’ Health
Little attention was paid to the quietly-approved addition of 3 new programs to the Department of Health and Human Services list of “evidence-based” teen pregnancy prevention programs, a list that the...
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Happy 40th Anniversary Title IX!
Last Saturdayy, June 24, women and men across the country celebrated the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. Title IX was a part of the Education Amendments in 1972 that prohibited...
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Is This the Best Way to Encourage Young Women into Science?
by Gwen Sharp The video “Science: It’s a Girl Thing!” is meant to encourage girls to consider careers in the natural and physical sciences, presenting science, as the title suggests, as an area...
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Cisgender Privilege: Unlocking the Invisible Bathroom
An Homage to Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh [PDF] If you’re asking yourself what in the world “cisgender” (often shortened to “cis”) means, then don’t worry. If you’re not familiar...
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On the SaVe Act, UNC Chapel Hill, and Protecting All Students
Worst case scenario: what do you do if you need to report a sexual assault on your campus? Do you know who to contact? Which department is responsible? Do you need to fill out a form? I was pleasantly...
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A Women in Academia Mini-Roundtable
It’s clear that women still struggle to find standing in academia. In this post, two FMF interns tackle the issue right at the line where the personal becomes political. Gaisu I’m not American, and I...
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Oregon Lawmakers Want to “Pay It Forward” To Ease Student Debt
The average college student graduating in 2011 had an average of $26,600 in debt. Sadly, not a lot has been done about the modern twenty-something’s intense struggle to balance debt with unemployment...
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Recap: Press Conference on the Economic Agenda for Women and Families
On Thursday, Nancy Pelosi held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol to announce the Economic Agenda for Women and Families. There are three main pillars to the agenda: fair pay, work and...
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Highland Park’s Black Studies Collection Trashed, Community Mobilizes
What happens when one of the institutions created to educate and preserve the general population’s access to knowledge decides to trash an entire population’s archive? Massive protests. A public school...
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