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When this normally discreet high school junior saw what her male classmates had to say about a new immigration order, she shot back at them to prove that white, upper middle-class boys aren’t the only ones with opinions.
“He would text her all the time and say threatening stuff,” one teen says of her friend. “She was really depressed. She was afraid to go to school.”
When a mother posted a photo of herself nursing at her college graduation on a breastfeeding Facebook page, a flurry of disapproval quickly ignited all over social media. Questions are being raised about how public breastfeeding should be.
Pulitzer-prize winning columnist George Will has thrown virtual gas on the Internet blaze about campus rapes by writing an updated version “she asked for it” in his column in the Washington Post. Will also writes for Fox News and Newsweek.
Female Arab leaders met in Jordan this week to discuss women, peace and security. In Texas, an abortion law was reinstated, requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
At least five British women have been targeted by online Twitter trolls in the past two weeks. Though initially criticized for its response, Twitter says it’s setting up new ways to crack down on such harassment.
Breastfeeding rates went up in the United States between 2000 and 2010. Twitter failed to deal with threats of sexual abuse made on its site against a feminist campaigner.
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Saudi women have whiffed new freedoms in recent years. But like the subtle fashion interpretations now being placed on the otherwise identity-smothering, head-to-toe abaya, they don’t go very deep.
Obama’s announcement in support of same-sex marriage is being liked, shared, and retweeted by the thousands. Could Obama’s announcement mobilize millennials?
After a year of courageous digital leadership, female activists from the Middle East and North Africa–some of them Twitter superstars–met in Cairo last week. It was a chance to meet face-to-face, savor revolutionary success and weigh setbacks.