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Jessica Valenti
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Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti is the author of Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness. She has also written three other books on feminism, including The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, which was recently made into a documentary. She is editor of the award-winning anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and the founder of Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review calls “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Jessica was the recipient of the 2011 Hillman Journalism Prize and was called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by The Guardian.
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A throwback is just that, even if it is shrouded in organic hemp cloth.
Rehtaeh Parsons, Audrie Pott: these are victims of sexual violence who didn't survive.
Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.
Why women are winning the culture wars and what we should take on next.
Why are we still surprised by Foster Friess, Darrell Issa and Rick Santorum's misogyny?
With Karen Handel's resignation, online feminism's victory against the giant cancer charity is complete.
She put sexual harassment on the map, but twenty years later, more than half of all high school and college age women report being harassed.
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By focusing on gender alone, institutional feminists opened the door for the Mama Grizzlies.
It might sound milder, and appear hipper, but it traffics in the same old sexism.
Let's use this moment to push for the feminism we've all been fighting for.
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