#FatGirlsCan

Jes Baker is a woman who is making waves with her new campaign: #FatGirlsCan. Baker owns a blog called The Militant Baker, and she advocates for loving your body and self. An overweight woman herself, Baker wrote a book called Things Will No One Will Tell Fat Girls. The overwhelmingly positive response to the book is what caused Baker […]

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#WhyIStayed

In the wake of the Ray Rice domestic violence scandal, people have turned to victim blaming Rice’s wife, Janay Palmer, for being complicit in her own abuse by staying in the marriage. The questions of “why would you stay” and “why didn’t you just leave him” have been packing the twitter air waves, with the […]

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Social Media Meets Social Justice

This past month, the story that has swept the news is that of Mike Brown’s tragic and unwarranted death in Ferguson, Missouri. The innocent 18-year-old, days away from starting college, was gunned down by a police officer and died “black, unarmed and from multiple gunshots.” Most have recognized this situation as a blatant act of racism, […]

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Girl Sexts Dad

There are certain rules to texting. Don’t threaten, don’t bully, and don’t send naked selfies to your father. This week, twenty-three-year-old Nyjah Cousar went from unknown Inglewood, California girl to web celebrity after she accidentally tweeted a photo (meant for her boyfriend) of… well, let’s just say of herself… to her dad, and then recounted […]

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