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  Aliza Shvarts

  Culture Buzz Yale art student Aliza Shvarts' senior art project documents a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminates herself while inducing miscarriages over and over. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process. Finally, something that pro-lifers AND pro-choicers can agree on! Now both sides of the controversial debate can concur that gratuitous abortion art is pretty despicable.

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     Yale Daily News - For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse

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     University calls art project a fiction; Shvarts ‘08 disputes Yale’s claim

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     Further developments reveal the “art project” is a hoax.

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  “I Was Raped” T-Shirt

  Politics Buzz Feminist writer Jennifer Baumgardener has created a T-shirt that reads "I was raped" as part of multimedia rape awareness project. Baumgardener aims to force the taboo issue of rape into everyday conversation. Not surprisingly, the T-shirt is causing a fair amount controversy. We wish people didn't rely as much on slogan T-shirts for topics of conversation.

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     “I Was Raped” T-Shirt Intended To Empower

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     “Rape Worn Not on a Sleeve, but Right Over the Heart”

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     I Was Raped: Wear Your Voice Out (Official Site)

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  Intellectualizing “The Hills”

  TV Buzz The New York Times describes the third season of The Hills as having an "Antonioni plotlessness" and considers Heidi Montag to be some sort of "feminist hero." We wish we were still in college so we could write our women's studies thesis on the bastion of feminist theory that is The Hills. But we might consider writing an essay just for fun chronicling the Hegelian evolution of our brooding heroine LC, starting with her Laguna Beach days.

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     “5 Ways In Which The Hills is JUST LIKE An Antonioni Film”

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     New York Times Reviews the Third Season of the Hills

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     WSJ’s Very Long, Very In-Depth Profile on the Branding of Lauren Conrad

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  “Funny” Rape T-Shirt

  Business Buzz A T-shirt reading "NO MEANS NO. Well maybe if I'm drunk" is removed from a retailer's website after widespread complaints. Adding insult to injury, the tasteless retailer replaced the offending garment with a T-shirt featuring a "Miss Bitch" graphic, and offered a 10% discount to readers of Feministing, the site that lodged the original complaint.

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     “How Did No Means No Become a Fun Rape Joke”

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     “Re-victimisation for fun and profit: more Goliath, less David”

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     “Rape Shirt Pulled”

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  Women Are Dumb

  Politics Buzz An article in the Washington Post entitled "We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?" is generating outrage from bloggers. In the article, she accuses female Obama supporters of being silly groupies. Shouldn't the fact that Barack Obama is the new NKOTB be a step up for womankind? We just put in our orders for some "Women for Obama" baby tees.

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     Article Exposes Dumbness of Charlotte Allen, Not Womankind

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     Blogosphere Up-in-Arms over Article

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     How Did This Piece of Garbage Get Published in the First Place?

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  Lybrel

  Science Buzz The birth control pill that halts your period sparks a heated feminist debate. Ladies, it's time to throw out those period panties and dig out those white jeans. It'll be the most liberating thing you will ever do for yourself.

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     Odd Feminist Reaction to Lybrel: Bad for Women’s Self Esteem??

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     A Boon to Suffering Women Everywhere

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     No More Tampons

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  Feminist Porn

  Culture Buzz A new book called Porn for Women features sensitive men in aprons. We wanted to warn you about this book because it is NOT actually porn! But wait, what is feminist porn? We won't get into it here; that's what freshman year at Smith College is for. But here are some links investigating this enigmatic topic.

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     “Porn for Women” Isn’t Even a Satire!

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     “X-rated films for red-blooded feminists”

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     Hot And Bothered: A Documentary about Feminist Pornography

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  Toxic Feminism

  Culture Buzz Egalitarian societies show a link between forced gender equality and poor health. Sigh. If we could all just marry rich and stay at home making pottery all day, we'd lead long happy lives of joy and prosperity.

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     Egalitarian Society in Sweden Not as Rosy as It Seems

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     Women Probably Don’t Want to Trade Equal Rights for Better Health

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     American Women: Less Sleep Means More Stress Means Less Sex

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  Women

  Culture Buzz International Women's Day is today. If you've been noticing a lot of blog posts about women today, you're not hallucinating. There's still some time to celebrate. We'll be getting bikini waxes and and pampering our flaccid areoli with nipple tint. Girl power all the way!

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     Suffragette City!

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     African Women Blogger Round-up

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     Taking a Look at the Feminist Interweb.

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  Single Women Taking Over

  Culture Buzz 51% of women are single and the hot new demographic, according to NY Times fluff piece. Remember the first time you saw Sex and the City and you were like, "these people can't be real"? Real people don't spend $600 on shoes, or make that many exceptionally dumb puns in everyday conversation. Unfortunately, they are real. And they are the majority.

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     Single People Should Vote More and Be Heard

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     Single Women Shouldn’t Flaunt Their “Feminism” by Buying Homes

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     Conservatives Find This to be a “Crisis”

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  Hairy Armpits

  Culture Buzz Or rather, Women Who Rule The World. Yesterday we learned that Half-Jews control the media. Today we learn that there are actually women who are involved (100 of them to be exact) and that they are so busy, they don't even have time to shave their armpits. Feminism has finally been embraced!

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     Ladies of Hollywood Not Perfect But Hairy

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     Sony Prez Amy Pascal Tops Annual “Women In Entertainment” List, Not Revealed If She Has Hairy Armpits

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     Reuters Reports Back on A Star-Studded Breakfast

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