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The National Archives Say They “Made A Mistake” By Censoring Images ...
Tara Edwards
Jan 18, 2020
US News
From “Thank U, Next” To Tossing A Coin To Your Witcher, These Women’s March ...
Lydia Wang
Jan 18, 2020
Entertainment
It’s Wild That Kacey Musgraves & Kelsea Ballerini Have To Defend Playing ...
Courtney E. Smith
Jan 16, 2020
Music
Why Aren’t These Women In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame?
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Ally Hickson
TV Shows
Yes
Handmaid’s Tale
Fans, There Is A Sequel Coming, ...
Unfortunately, there’s bad news for The Handmaid’s Tale fans eagerly awaiting the television version of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments — you’re
by
Tanya Edwards
Movies
The Mrs America Trailer May Make You Mad & That’s Okay
Cate Blanchett is taking on perhaps one of the most hated roles in history. A new original series coming to FX will portray the rise and reign of Phyllis S
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Kathryn Lindsay
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Feminism
Christina Koch Sets A New Record For Women Astronauts
Astronaut Christina Koch already made history in October as one of the astronauts to conduct the first all-women space walk. Less than three months later,
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Lydia Wang
Entertainment
The Dark Tower: Where Our Radical Black Foremothers Made A Room O...
Jamia Wilson, the publisher of the Feminist Press, reflects on the legacy of Zora Neale Hurston, A'Lelia Walker and The Dark Tower: a place where our radic
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Jamia Wilson
Movies
The Women Of Hollywood Are Shading The Golden Globes’ Lack ...
In December of 2019, the year of our Lord and Hustlers and Little Women, somehow not a single woman director got a nod from the Golden Globes. Nominations
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Kathryn Lindsay
Ladies First
Hollywood Women: Famous Firsts That Changed Everything
1800s 1900s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 2000s 10s JUMP TO A DECADE CLOSE HISTORY · TELEVISION · MOVIES Once upon a time in Hollywood, women ran t
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R29 Team
Feminism
A Chicago College Student Was Killed After She Ignored A Man’s Ca...
Ruth George, a University of Illinois at Chicago college student, was killed after ignoring a man’s catcalls in a parking garage, The New York Times repo
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Tara Edwards
Movies
Meet Deborah Chow, Star Wars’ First Woman Director In 42 Years
Warning: Major spoilers for the first three episodes of The Mandalorian are ahead. The Star Wars franchise may take place in a distant past
by
Kathryn Lindsay
Music
The 2019 CMA Awards Drama & “Boyfriend Country,” Expl...
After the women of country music took center stage at the CMA Awards last night (minus a gross oversight in not giving Carrie Underwood their Entertainer o
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Courtney E. Smith
Music
The Songwriters Hall Of Fame Only Nominated 6 Women — & It’s A Ma...
Mariah Carey, along with five other women, is nominated for the Songwriters Hall Of Fame this year. And while Mimi’s nomination should be a reason to cel
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Shannon Carlin
2020 Election
Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Care If Joe Biden Thinks She’...
“I’m angry and I own it.” That was the message Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent supporters in an email on Friday, Nov. 8. Her new fundraising rally cry fol
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Shannon Carlin
Entertainment
First Woman Ever Nominated For Best Director Finally Gets Her Oscar
The first woman to ever be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director is finally getting her long-overdue recognition. Lina Wertmüller, first nominated in 1
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Sarah Midkiff
TV Shows
Catherine The Great Finally Gets Her TV Reign — But What Happened...
It is about time Catherine the Great got her TV moment. Catherine took the throne in 1762 at 33 and held it until her death in 1796, making her the longest
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Lydia Wang
US News
After All-Woman Spacewalk, NASA Says A Woman Could Be The First P...
This week, astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first ever all-woman spacewalk, and it is looking like the future is indeed female. How
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Tara Edwards
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Cultural Issues & Equal Rights
NFL Teams Up With Female Football Star Sam Gordon To Tackle Cancer
At the age of nine, Samantha Gordon caught the NFL’s attention when her football highlight tape went viral. Now, she’s teaming up with the NFL
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Mary Paige Nesfeder
Entertainment
Who Was Catherine The Great — & What Made Her So Great?
Behold, the three stages of watching HBO’s four-part miniseries Catherine the Great, premiering October 21. During stage one, you’ll be flailing and th
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Elena Nicolaou
Music
Pharrell Reveals What “Blurred Lines” Taught Him About Our “Chauv...
Who knew “Blurred Lines” could teach a man about rape culture? Pharrell, the cover star of GQ’s New Masculinity issue, is talking about when he start
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Shannon Carlin
March For Sisterhood
I March For Our Lives — But I Also March For Sisterhood
Refinery29 is partnering with Girls Who Code for the #MarchForSisterhood on International Day of the Girl. This is the first-ever all-digital global march.
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Delaney Tarr
Feminism
Time’s Up’s New President & CEO Tina Tchen Has Big Plans
On October 7, Tina Tchen was named the new president and CEO of Time’s Up, an organization famously launched in a full-page New York Times ad in the wake
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Elena Nicolaou
Entertainment News
How Has #MeToo Changed Creator Tarana Burke’s Life?
Despite the takeover by #MeToo of social media, and subsequently popular culture, these past two years, its recognition was over ten years in the making. C
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Kathryn Lindsay
Tech
Here’s How To Use A Social Media Photo To Do Some Good Today
For many of us, posting to social media is a regular part of our days. We share photos of our outfits, pics of the dishes we’re enjoying, and some of
by
Olivia Harrison
News
The First Space Walk With All Women Astronauts Is Finally Happening
Remember that all-women space walk that was supposed to happen in March? Well, after several months, a sketch on Saturday Night Live, and a swift scolding
by
Alexis Reliford
Movies
Is
Birds Of Prey
Connected To Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker?
The first trailer for Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn has arrived, and in the midst of all the goodness that is Margot
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Alexis Reliford
Entertainment News
A #MeToo Timeline To Show How Far We’ve Come — & How Far We...
It’s been two years since the New York Times and New Yorker investigation into the sexual misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein unleashed the #MeToo movement and
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Elena Nicolaou
Feminism
Miley Cyrus Asks Fans To Stop Slut-Shaming & Accept Her Dating Life
Miley Cyrus is very busy these days, whether it’s recording, vacationing, or dating very publicly, and she wants people to know that they shouldn’t jud
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Tara Edwards
Books & Art
The Most Shocking Things We Learned In
She Said
, The Tel...
If the year 2019 had a curriculum, She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey would be required reading. The book is an exhaustive account of how Kantor and
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Elena Nicolaou
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