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Megyn Kelly’s interview with Trump’s accusers is required viewing

sudshr47 December 11, 2017

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On Monday morning, NBC’s Megyn Kelly did what the cultural and political moment demanded: She ceded much of the spotlight on her hour of the Today show to three women who say President Donald Trump once demeaned, groped, or forcibly kissed them over the past decades. They are among at least a dozen women who’ve accused Trump of sexual misconduct. 

Kelly may be a complicated woman, who is both revered by some as a pseudo-feminist for her public confrontations with Trump and Bill O’Reilly and loathed by critics who see her Fox News legacy as the work of a “racial demagogue,” but her exclusive interview with Trump’s accusers should be required viewing for anyone who believes it’s too late to make Trump accountable for his behavior — or doesn’t believe we should reckon with it at all.  Read more…

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Matt Lauer is what happens when men who are terrible to women are given every benefit of the doubt

sudshr47 November 30, 2017

Matt Lauer spent the past two decades on the Today deploying his goofiness and matter-of-fact interviewing style to win over television audiences. 
On Wednesday morning, however, viewers awoke to the news that Lauer also engaged in workplace sex…

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LGBTI activists are reclaiming Rwanda, one neighborhood at a time

sudshr47 November 18, 2017

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Mailly walks into every room like she’s auditioning for Next Top Model, even when it’s just her own kitchen.

She passes by the oven like she’s stepping onto the runway. Applies her make-up like she’s about to step onto a TV set for the last damn interview of the week

Mailly wants a bigger, more glamorous world than the one she’s been given. But as a trans woman in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, her stage is limited: kitchen, bedroom, the occasional bar. She can’t go to work because she can’t apply for employment without producing identification and revealing the sex she was assigned at birth. She can’t escape to America, even for a brief trip, because the country doesn’t readily grant visas to Rwandans like her, and likely won’t for a long time. Read more…

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How the Girl Scouts CEO went from rocket scientist to America’s biggest champion of girls

sudshr47 November 17, 2017

There are moments that Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, just can’t forget. 
There was the time a college counselor at her high school in Las Cruces, New Mexico, scoffed at Acevedo’s desire to study engineering. “Girls like you …

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This new film series will make you painfully aware of gender inequality in the art world

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

“In 1989, the Guerilla Girls counted the number of women represented in The Met’s modern art sections,” notes Artists for Gender Equality. “Less than 5 percent of the artists were women and 85 percent of the nudes were female.”
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Hey ‘Stranger Things’ fans, maybe don’t sexualize kids

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

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Millie Bobbie Brown, the 13-year-old actress who plays Eleven on the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, has been on a weeks-long press tour promoting the show’s new season. 

Everywhere she turns up, whether it’s Good Morning America or her show’s premier party, Brown looks playful, chic, and glamorous — just like you’d expect a young teen to dress when she’s famous and has access to incredible fashion. 

Except some are interpreting Brown’s fashion choices as an invitation to see her as grown up. 

A retired senior NBCUniversal executive, for example, recently shared a photo of Brown at the premiere wearing a black long-sleeve leather dress and sleek hair with the caption “Millie Bobby Brown just grew up in front of our eyes. (She’s 13!)”  Read more…

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Kevin Spacey’s alleged predatory behavior shows why men rarely report sexual assault

sudshr47 November 6, 2017

In the week since actor Anthony Rapp said Kevin Spacey made an unwanted sexual advance toward him as a teenager, more than a dozen men have come forward with similar accounts. 
Their stories indicate the celebrated actor has spent decades preyin…

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Sex ed livestream’s ‘pleasure professionals’ will help you reclaim your sexuality

sudshr47 November 3, 2017

Imagine a sex ed class that taught you not only basic anatomy and disease prevention, but also encouraged you to reclaim sexual pleasure after a traumatic experience, helped you unlearn the shame associated with growing up in a religious or homophobi…

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