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How Equality In Sports is Undermined by Compulsory Heterosexuality

By Leanne Norman / Feministe

Dispelling the pervasive hidden ideology that women in sports must appear feminine.

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How ‘The Wire’ Influenced ‘Parks and Recreation’

By Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress

Occupy The Progressive Movement: Why Occupy Should Embrace "Co-Optation"

By Jonathan Matthew Smucker / Beyond The Choir

Activist Rockers "Outernational" Talk About Their New Political Album "We Are All Illegals"

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

$5,000 For a Pair of Sandals: The Rich Are Different, Right Down to Their Shoes

By Sara Robinson / AlterNet

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Porn Lit: Why the S&M "50 Shades of Grey" Is Freaking Everyone Out

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

The Soul of the Christian South: Fundamentalist and Progressive Churches Square Off in Gay Marriage Debate

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Act Like a Lady? 7 Romantic Comedies Stuck in the 1950s

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The Hunger Games' Subtly Racist Cliché

Bijan C. Bayne / AlterNet

10 Interesting Things the World Learned This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Is Understanding Climate Change An Economic Luxury?

Emily Badger / Miller-McCune Magazine

6 People You Need to Start a Revolution

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Why I'm Deeply Skeptical of HBO's Super-Hyped Show 'Girls'

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Heroes and Villains: How To Tell The Progressive Economic Story

Richard Kirsch / New Deal 2.0

Where We're Headed, We Don't Need Roads

David Sirota / Creators Syndicate

Matt Damon to Film "Anti-Fracking Blockbuster"

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Heroine With a Thousand Faces: The Rise of the Female Savior

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

7 Most Absurdly Schmaltzy Historical Movies

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Conservative 'Culture of Bullying' Keeps LGBTQ Youth From Feeling Safe

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

'Bully' Documentary Exposes the Criminal Negligence Threatening Kids' Lives

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

What If We Stopped Freaking Out About Climate Change?

Sven Eberlein / AlterNet

The 50 Worst Songs to Have Sex To

Eliot Glazer / xojane

Hip-Hop is For Lovers: Sex and Intimacy Through the Lens of Pop Culture's Most Influential Music Form

Lauren Bruce / Feministe

11 Interracial Romances that Changed America

Nicholas Powers / AlterNet

"Shameless": TV's Dysfunctional Sweethearts May Be One of the Most Underappreciated Shows

Willa Paskin / Salon

A Photographer's Mission to Show That Breast Cancer Is More Than Pink Ribbons

Amy DePaul / AlterNet

"Turn Me On, Dammit!" New Film a Horny Teen-Girl Manifesto?

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

5 Infuriating Copycat TV Shows

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The Hunger Games: Don't Fall for the Fluff of the Season's Most-hyped Film

Eileen Jones / eXiled Online

From Amadou Diallo to Trayvon Martin, Bruce Springsteen Revives “American Skin (41 Shots)”

Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress

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