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PoC News in America

Happy Black History Month, everyone! Here’s how you can help shut down the ignorant haters, just like John Boyega, or celebrate with the rest of the internet.

Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: Favorite Podcasts

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Monday, August 10th, 2015
5 Comments on Lunchtime Poll: Favorite Podcasts

Here’s where I admit that I’ve never really listened to podcasts. But now I need something to keep me awake while doing some tedious data entry at work, and I need a break from listening to the same Pandora stations and Spotify playlists over and over.

Tags fart jokes, ltp, lunchtime poll, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcasts, StarTalk Radio

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This Week in Lady Reads

You’re about to get mooned (by the actual moon’s backside) and flashed (by Lenny Kravitz). Also, don’t mess with armadillos or walruses. They aren’t having it.

Pop Culture

Podcasts I Say I Will Listen to… but I Probably Won’t

Post author By Karishma
Post date Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
1 Comment on Podcasts I Say I Will Listen to… but I Probably Won’t

I’m trying to get better about how I consume media. There are enough movies and TV options being churned out that those alone can take entire lifetimes to fill. Since I have a commute that is over an hour long, I try to look for new music and/or podcasts to fill this time but then […]

Tags All Things Considered, chris hardwick, How Did This Get Made, Ira Glass, Karina Longworth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, NPR, podcasts, radiolab, serial, star talk, The Black List Table Reads, the nerdist, This American Life, undisclosed, wait wait don't tell me, welcome to night vale, You Must Remember This

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This Week in Lady Reads

Lots of interesting reads this week, but let’s start with the news everyone’s talking about:

Tags 90s music, bend it like beckham, cosmo, cyberbullying, fat-shaming, hillary clinton, hollywood, internet trolls, male entitlement, Neil deGrasse Tyson, racism, Rand Paul, self-published books, South Carolina, suicide, women writers

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PoC News in America

We have another video heavy article this week. Let’s get to it!

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Friday News Bites: Ferguson Updates, Leonard Nimoy + More

Post author By Sara Habein
Post date Friday, March 6th, 2015
3 Comments on Friday News Bites: Ferguson Updates, Leonard Nimoy + More

Happy Friday, Unicorns. It’s time for your (favorite?) weekly round-up of politics, science, entertainment and other newsy bits from around the interwub. Let’s get started.

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Friday News Bites: Llaw-breaking Llamas, Oscar Post-Match, Net Neutrality + More

Post author By Sara Habein
Post date Friday, February 27th, 2015
3 Comments on Friday News Bites: Llaw-breaking Llamas, Oscar Post-Match, Net Neutrality + More

We have a rather jumbo-sized Friday News Bites this week, but am I glad I didn’t write this post before news about the Great Llama Chase of 2015 broke. Let’s get started.

Open Thread

This Open Thread is Staying Right Here on Earth

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
1 Comment on This Open Thread is Staying Right Here on Earth

I somehow just saw this video from last August of Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining how long you could survive on the surface of each planet without life support, and it’s a delight. I don’t even want to admit how hard I laughed at his awful “old astronomy joke.”

Tags certain death, Neil deGrasse Tyson, open thread, terrible jokes

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny: You Won’t Believe What Happens Next Week!

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, August 22nd, 2014
4 Comments on This Week in Misogyny: You Won’t Believe What Happens Next Week!

There’s oh-so-much misogyny to cover this week, including a larger-than-usual dose of transphobia, lots of cool study findings, and several Twitter accounts you’re going to want to go follow right now. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags #likeaboy, abortion, Amal Alamuddin, Bad Feminist, black hair, breast feeding, butch women, BYU, Carolyn Porco, christina hendricks, Common Core, Congress, Daniel Radcliffe, diversity in sci-fi, Doree Lewak, Fark, feminism, Fox News, friend zone, Fund Texas Choice, Fund Texas Women, funny or die, gender wage gap, girl crush, google, grand theft auto, Henry Rayhons, hockey, intersex, Ireland, jessica valenti, Lego, lesbian emojis, mansplaining, marvel, Michael Brown, Michelle Duggar, Mike Coffman, misogyny, Mo'Ne Davis, MRAs, nail polish, Narendra Modi, Neil deGrasse Tyson, nerdy black girls, New Jersey, new york times, NFL, orgasms, Pajiba, peru, post-partum depression, prostitution, rape, Rape Culture, Roxane Gay, sex offender registry, smile bitch training camp, spider-woman, street harassment, suicide, taco or beer challenge, tampons, tea party, Texas, trans, transphobia, Twitter, wendy davis, wikipedia, woman against feminism, women in gaming, women in the workplace, zimbabwe, zoe quinn

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Post author By [E] Sally Lawton
Post date Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
2 Comments on Dispatches from Ladyblogland

What can I say about this week other than it was electric?

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Post author By [E] Sally Lawton
Post date Tuesday, July 29th, 2014
2 Comments on Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Fire up your favorite web clipper because I read so much cool stuff this past week.

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny Wants Some Potato Skins

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, May 23rd, 2014
7 Comments on This Week in Misogyny Wants Some Potato Skins

It’s been another banner week for misogyny news. Several studies were published that will likely depress you, and the weekly roundup of terrible people will probably piss you off. There’s some fun stuff at the end, though! (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny has a #SolidarityHashtag

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, May 9th, 2014
11 Comments on This Week in Misogyny has a #SolidarityHashtag

Are you ready for some misogyny? Yeah, me neither. But if we must… read on for an update on the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, to see why Jezebel made my list of terrible people, and for a healthy dose of venting courtesy of our friends at Pajiba. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags #BringBackOurGirls, #RealMenDontBuyGirls, abortion, Alison Lundergan Grimes, Black Milk Clothing, Blurred Lines, Boko Haram, California, campus sexual assault, Cecily McMillan, childfree, college humor, contraception mandate, debunking, dorkly, Emily Letts, Emma Stone, Facebook, Fox News, future, gay sex, hari kondabolu, Jeanine Howard, jennifer lawrence, Jezebel, Kanye West, Las Vegas, louis c.k., Louisiana, Maryland, maternal mortality rate, Matt Bevin, Michael Fassbender, misogyny, monica lewinsky, Monte Shaw, Mother's Day, Nancy Denson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, new york, Nigeria, Obamacare, occupy wall street, Outnumbered, Pajiba, police brutality, rape, Roger Helmer, salvation army, sex ed, sex workers, sexual assault, shailene woodley, South Carolina, sports bras, Steve Hickey, teen pregnancy, the sex talk, transmisogyny, UKIP, victim-blaming, west virginia, white privilege, Willow Smith, wonder woman, woody allen, Yahoo

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Post author By [E] Sally Lawton
Post date Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
3 Comments on Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This week, I attended an academic conference in which someone addressed the topic of mass incarceration of black women, a topic that ladyblogland has talked about for years. It makes you think: there’s a lot of good work being done here in ladyblogland. With that in mind, let’s see what the bloggers talked about this week.