Loose Garments is absolutely thrilled to announce our new collaboration with Amendment19.com and its creator, Jaime Lorente! Jaime’s site Amendment19.com creates discourse on social issues from a feminist perspective. We love Amendment19.com because of the quality of writing, and the issues they tackle. Our new collaboration will take on different forms, you will just have… [Read more…]
If you are in the New York City area please attend this rally and protest tomorrow to protest the acquittal these 2 NYPD officers received after a very graphic, detailed and proof-laden account of them raping a young woman they should have been helping! This is a perfectly obscene example of victim blaming when it… [Read more…]
Last week Thursday the Guttmacher Institute, which was designated an official Collaborating Center for Reproductive Health in 2009 by the World Health Organization, released a statement that the June issue of their journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, will publish 3 articles: “The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies: National and State-Level… [Read more…]
By Kate Pittman Two unrelated events happened in rapid succession recently. On May 14, Dominique Strauss Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested for sexual assault of a maid at a Manhattan hotel. On May 17, Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor, and governor of California, acknowledged that he had committed adultery and fathered… [Read more…]
We are thrilled and delighted to have a new talented, dynamic and awesome contributor! Kate Pittman is an animator and graphic designer who currently resides in Phoenix, AZ. Kate is already an inspiration and powerful voice to a following she has generated via her personal blog: This is Not a Diet Kate is a Feminist and… [Read more…]
NOW President Terry O’Neill Says: “IMF Chief Must Go!” “The National Organization for Women is calling on Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign or be removed immediately from his position as managing director of the International Monetary Fund,” said NOW President Terry O’Neill. NOW will take its message public today and is encouraging women’s rights supporters to… [Read more…]
A Rite of Torture for Girls By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF , Published: May 11, 2011 , HARGEISA, Somaliland Damon Winter/The New York Times (Nicholas D. Kristof) Original Article NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/opinion/12kristof.html?scp=5&sq=Nicholas%20D.%20Kristof%20&st=cse People usually torture those whom they fear or despise. But one of the most common forms of torture in the modern world, incomparably more widespread than waterboarding or… [Read more…]
You’re in luck… because Loose Garments is looking for contributing writers! About Us Loose Garments is a blog community dedicated to all things feminist. The title “loose garments” is generated from a utopian ideology of “bursting free of restrictive/limiting convictions by a patriarchy that has unfairly burdened and oppressed women for too long.” Throughout history… [Read more…]
Women covering war Female correspondents recall their historic role reporting from Vietnam Thursday, March 30, 2000 By Cristina Rouvalis and Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette staff writers In 1967, Jurate Kazickas finagled a spot on the TV game show “Password,” but she wasn’t looking to get rich. She was trying to scrounge up enough money to fly… [Read more…]
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