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You Can Clean The House And Still Be A Feminist
By Ashley Lauren SamsaAugust 02, 2012
Navigating her new role as a wife, feminist Ashley Lauren Samsa finally figured out that cleaning your house doesn't automatically make you June Cleaver. The personal is political. As a feminist, this has been my mantra for years, so when I decided to get married, I wanted my marriage to reflect what an equal partnership should look like. We would share all of the housework equally. We would a...Posted in Feminism, Gender Roles, Husbands, Life, Marriage, nfti-home, Wives | (0) Comments »
How I Almost Killed Myself Rather Than Let Someone Think I Was Weak
By Lynn BeisnerAugust 02, 2012
Lynn Beisner's mind and body had long been at odds, until a near-death experience forced her to begin treating her body like the beautiful, miraculous machine that it is. A couple of weeks ago I nearly killed myself because I am fat. I don’t mean that I tried to commit suicide; I mean that I allowed other people’s attitudes about fat to influence how I treated myself, and that almo...Posted in Life, Lynn, nfti-home, Womanhood | (0) Comments »
On Choosing A Last Name As A Married Lesbian Couple
By CindyAugust 01, 2012
I grew up in a family where all the women changed their names at marriage (for some this meant changing it multiple times). My mother changed her name when she married my father and changed it back when they divorced. In my early 20s, I dated someone who was very traditional, and who repeatedly commented about how his stepmother was not a true [insert his last name] because she had not changed ...Posted in Family, Feminism, LGBT, Marriage, nfti-home, Wives | (0) Comments »
Women, It's Time For Us To Take Away Men's Guns
By Lyla CiceroAugust 01, 2012
Lyla Cicero says that all too often, when a gun is available in the home, a woman dies. So why are we not doing more about gun control? Although details about the identities of the Aurora shooting victims are slow to emerge, it is safe to say a male perpetrated unspeakable violence against a number of women, as well as other men. Sadly, male violence toward either sex is not an unusual occurre...Posted in Culture and Politics, Current Events, nfti-home, Politics, Lyla | (0) Comments »
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