Feminism 101
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April 18, 2017
Feminism 101: What is Postcolonial Feminism?
Postcolonial feminism resists Euro-American feminists’ tendency to universalize the shape oppression takes for women in various sociopolitical and historical contexts.
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December 17, 2016
Feminism 101: What is the Commodification of Femininity?
The very act of buying household products or a princess crown is not liberating; it normalizes a female social role…
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December 17, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Toxic Masculinity?
The bottom line is toxic masculinity harms all genders. It promotes sexism, misogyny, violence, and rape culture, while enforcing dangerous…
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November 20, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Tokenism?
Tokenism, broadly speaking, is including someone in a group for the sake of sounding or appearing diverse.
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November 7, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Cultural Appropriation?
Cultural appropriation is a centuries-old practice of disrespecting a culture by adopting aspects of that culture without regarding the significance…
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October 31, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Gaslighting?
Gaslighting is a common psychological trick that removes accountability and stifles discourse by laying blame on the victim or convincing…
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May 29, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Cissexism?
Cissexism is the conscious or unconscious reinforcement of the belief that there are only two genders, determined at birth by…
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May 24, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Tone-Policing?
Tone-policing is a way to silence emotion in the movement for equality. To silence emotion in the movement is to…
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May 18, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Fatphobia?
Why is the Fat Acceptance Movement, which is defined as the social movement seeking to change anti-fat bias in social…
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May 17, 2016
Feminism 101: What is Choice Feminism?
Intuitively, this broad ideology may seem positive at best and harmless at worst, but given its disregard for socioeconomic relations…
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