Gender

Looking to Mexico for an Alternative to Abortion Clinics

By Reynaldo Leal / New America Media

In this Roman Catholic stronghold, where abortion is deeply stigmatized, reproductive health providers tell stories of women going to pharmacies across the border in Mexico, in search of a drug they hope will terminate unwanted pregnancies.

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16-Year-Old Girl Dies of Cancer After Being Refused Treatment for 3 Weeks Due to Pregnancy

By Robin Marty, Jodi Jacobson / RH Reality Check

Why Are No Women Celebrity Stoners Willing to Come Out of the Greenhouse?

By Greta Gaines / AlterNet

The Shocking Second HIV Epidemic Among U.S. Gay Men That No One Is Talking About

By Michael Bouldin / AlterNet

Ryan Sponsored Abortion Bill That Would Make Romney's Kids Criminals

By Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones

'Crisis Pregnancy Center' that Made Couples Study the Bible Now Suing for Taxpayer Dollars

Stephen Colbert Mocks Absurd Fox News Piece About the Sexual Revolution and Non-Existent 'War on Men'

5 States Where GOP Extremists Are Pushing Repugnant Anti-Women Laws

Gender

The Bible Says More About Unicorns Than Fetuses -- Maybe Anti-Choice Christians Should Take a Closer Read

Lynn Beisner / Role Reboot

4 News Stories That Probably Make the Rest of the World Think Americans Are Gun-Crazed Bigots

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

A Fascinating History of the "C Word"

Lindsay Zoladz / Bitch Magazine

Returned Badges, Presidential Opposition: Backlash to the Boy Scouts' Anti-Gay Policies

Ted Cox / AlterNet

I Hooked Up With a Gay Evangelical Christian -- Here's Why I Outed Him

Azariah Southworth / Salon

Nuns' Group Targeted by Vatican Refuses to Back Down, But Won't Break Away

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

The Media's Problem With Gay Rappers

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

One Mom's Effort to Dampen Down the Media's Empty Nest Hysteria

Michele Weldon / AlterNet

11 Ways Men Can Be Better Feminist Allies

Ozy Frantz / Role Reboot

7 Things the Media Missed About the Chick-fil-A Saga

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Why Do Men Have Such Trouble With Intimacy?

Dr. Bill Cloke / The Good Men Project

5 Moments Young Women Kicked Ass

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How a Group of Women Sails Past Countries' Restrictions on Reproductive Rights

Claire Glass / AlterNet

Why Machismo Can Be Deadly For Gay Latinos

Erika L. Sanchez / AlterNet

We Never Said "We Wanted it All": How the Media Distorts the Goals of Feminism

Ruth Rosen / Open Democracy 50.50

Breaking the Glass Hurdle: Women's Firsts in the 2012 Olympics

Danette Rivera / Breaking Muscle

5 Reasons the 'Pray Away the Gay' Movement Is as Vile as Ever

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

The War on Workers' Religious Liberty

Amanda Marcotte / RH Reality Check

Inside the Mind of a Serial Rapist

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Punks vs. Putin: How Pussy Riot Managed to Give Russia's Leader His Biggest Political Headache Yet

Carole Cadwalladr / The Observer UK

Nicki Minaj's Retroactive Feminism

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The Future of Masculinity: Do We Need Real Men - Or Real Human Beings?

Abigail Collazo / Role Reboot

The World Needs More Geek Girls -- And Here's Where They're Coming From Now

Ysabel Yates / Txchnologist

Is the Fitness Ideal Any Less Damaging to Women Than the Beauty Ideal?

Meg Clark / AlterNet

I Want to Be Sexy ... Just Like Mommy

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

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