Sisters in War reads like a serial drama, kicking off with the fall of Saddam Hussein in a time of naïve hope. Christina Asquith’s breezy style still captures the complexities of the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, particularly how one can be anti-Republican, think that war always has an especially negative impact on women,...
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I’m watching Canada’s finest real lesbians do it. Maybe they aren’t Canada’s finest. But they’re real lesbians. In a beard-stroking kind of way, I’m selecting scenes from this all-girl website for an erotic compilation for women that doubles as a showcase for female directors. The brief? No fisting. No one who looks too butch....
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Coco de Mer’s activist arm Bondage for Freedom have teamed up with a stellar group of actors and artists to show the experience of one woman caught in a web of human trafficking. “Journey” traveling the world. Last stops were London, Vienna, New York and Madrid. Look out for it in a town near...
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A note from filmmaker Audacia Ray: Back in September, my job at the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) sent me to India with my co-worker Khushbu Srivastava to do media training and documentation of our partners in the country. One of the organizations, SANGRAM, works to ensure equal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care...
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Does Sexism in America really show the truth about women’s lives in the new millennium? The reader sympathetic to the idea of gender equality hopes the answer is no.
But it’s hard to brush off Barbara J. Berg’s clear language and arguments about how sexism is ruining the future of America. Even those reluctant to...
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When Belle de Jour, author of the bestselling book that inspired the hit television show Secret Diary of a Call Girl, outed herself as scientist Brooke Magnanti on November 15, she got an unusual break. The press received her unconventional sexual past with respect and open-minded curiosity. Not so for an overwhelming number of...
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