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Abortion Ship Doctor Slams Irish Policy
[Editor's Note: This post was written by Tracy Brown Hamilton, a journalist based in Amsterdam. It originally appeared onRabble.ie.]Photo credit: WOW Facebook page.News broke over the weekend that a...
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I Embrace My Female Nerd (and So Can You)
There's something I want to go ahead and put out there: I am a nerd. Many of my female role models live in alternate universes, fight aliens in space, are spies or witches, and are, well, fictional. As...
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Fark Bans Misogyny and Maybe, Just Maybe, We Can Now Read the Comments
Drew Curtis - photo by Scott Beale / Laughing SquidOn August 18, Drew Curtis, founder of Fark.com, an online link-aggregation community that was a precursor to the more widely known and used Reddit,...
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The Freedom Traveller
[Editor's Note: This post is by guest contributor Momal Mushtaq. Momal is a women’s rights activist and an aspiring social entrepreneur from Pakistan. Her work in development and media communications,...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: Fatima Mernissi on the Future of the Arab World
Fatema MernissiFatema (Fatima) Mernissi (b. 1940 in Fez, Morocco) is a persistent longtime advocate of women’s empowerment in the Arab world. A university-trained political scientist, a social...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Money
Source: Flickr Creative Commons“Money is never just about money” argues a leading financial services designer, James Moed, over a dinner attended by financial inclusion professionals hosted by Women...
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McKayla Maroney and the Celebrity Photo Leak of (August) 2014
Much like Loren Lynch did in her first post here at Her Blueprint, I feel I ought to tell you a little bit about myself. I have, for most of my adult life, made my income tending bar. One of the great...
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The Power of Voice
Wanjiku[1] has little formal schooling. She goes about her daily life with a baby on her back and several more at her dusty feet. She tends the crops, cooks the meals, collects the water, and tries to...
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Documentary Unravels Honor Killings of American Sisters
By Suzanne MahadeoThe Price of Honor is a documentary that shares the story of Amina and Sarah Said, two teenage sisters from Texas who were killed by their father. It's a film that starts off...
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The Tampon Taboo
Sign in Indonesia, Source: Flikr Creative CommonsFor girls everywhere menstruation is a rite of passage. Menstruation is a healthy, normal bodily function that affects half of our population -- the...
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Programs with Potential: Collective Voice and Sense of Self
Women across the world rarely have an opportunity to voice their opinion about an issue that matters to them. Photo: Deborah EspinosaFor those of us who are women’s rights advocates and activists with...
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The Opposing Trajectories of Zoe Quinn and Alex from Target
It is a strange thing, sharing the world with the Internet. Most of the time it makes life easier, better. It keeps us more connected, but it also exposes us. We could go to sleep one night, our lives...
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On Gratitude Versus Suffering: Resiliency Can Rise
The 16 Days of Activism is a worldwide campaign to end violence against women. Photo credit: UN Women.Today is Thanksgiving in my country of origin. It is the holiday in which families and friends...
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Belonging Together: The Making of Justice and Art
“What does poiesis have to do with slavery?”Shadow of Monique Villa, CEO of Thomas Reuters Foundation. Photo: Deborah EspinosaThat is how internationally renowned artist Anish Kapoor began his...
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The House with the Mint-Green Walls
[Editor's Note: After a few nomadic months, Priyanka has settled in New Delhi. Here she shares her feelings on the way art has inspired her own sense of being home. She will resume her regular column...
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The Year of Living Out Loud
As 2014 shuffles off its mortal coil, I want to amplify the many voices of 2014 that inspire me to live out loud in 2015. What these voices all have in common is that they are no longer living quietly,...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: Maria Vérone on the “Modernization” of Islam
Maria VéroneSeveral days ago, Clio came across an intriguing text about the “modernization” of Islam, written by a French woman lawyer and published by the International Council of Women. The author,...
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Chiharu Shiota: Drawing Memories in the Air
Trace of Memory, The Mattress Factory, 2013 (Photo: Priyanka Sacheti)I remember being thoroughly enchanted the first time I encountered Japanese installation and performance artist, Chiharu Shiota's...
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The Power of Voice, Redux, on International Women's Day
US congresswoman Jeanette Rankin speaks from the headquarters of the National American Women Suffrage Association, 1917. Three years later, American women had the right to vote. Photo: Library of...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: The Women’s Peace Congress at The Hague
Women convene at the Hague in 1915One hundred years ago this month (April 1915), in the midst of a major war on the European continent, a contingent of women associated with the International Woman...
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Collective Trauma and Creativity: Pregnant with Possibility
In Bujumbura, Burundi, a young man protests BurundianPresident Nkurunziza's run for a third presidential term.Copyright Reuters/Jean Pierre Aime HarerimanaOnce again, a small African country has...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: May Wright Sewall organizes the International Conference of...
The International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent PeaceA second women’s peace conference opened in San Francisco during the Pan-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. This...
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The Right to Love and the Magna Carta
The White House on June 26, 2015, Washington, DC. Photo credit: Ted Eytan.The United States Supreme Court slip opinion of Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. _ (2015).For the United States, Friday, June...
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CLIO TALKS BACK: What’s the Matter with Reckoning Descent Through the Mothers?
The well-educated Englishman known as James de Laurence (whose real name was James Henry Lawrence, 1773-1841) had the bright idea in the early 1830s of proposing that descent and succession be credited...
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As of September 2015, we will no longer be adding posts to Her Blueprint. Since the blog began in 2009, we have included nearly 500 posts from women writers, thinkers, and artists around the globe on...
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