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The NYC’s Mayor’s Office launched a #SupportNotShame campaign:

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Read how Snapchat is giving a voice to survivors of sexual assault in India.

You want to know how to talk to a woman who’s wearing headphones? YOU DON’T.

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Go here to watch a documentary on Discwoman, “a New York-based DJ collective and booking agency, exploring the role of women in electronic music”.

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If this Tweet isn’t “Mansplaining Gone Wild,” I don’t know what is. Mansplaining Gone Wild

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Click here to read thoughts from 18 young feminists from Latin America and the Caribbean regarding “what it means to be a young feminist in a machista society.” lima-decidimos

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Explaining the Mansplaining Statue Picture that Took Over the Internet

I’ve loved my last six months of interviewing feminist comedians and creative types for my monthly WEIRD SISTER “Funny Feminism” column, but have recently started to feel like I needed to take a break from the traditional profile or interview style I had grown accustomed to. I was wondering when I would feel inclined to just write exactly how I felt about feminism and comedy. Lucky for me, fate gave me this opportunity when an image I posted on Twitter went viral over the last few days.

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As I type this, my original Tweet has been reposted and liked 1,948 times and feminist-journalist-superstar Ann Friedman’s almost-immediate repost of my Tweet has been shared and liked 6,678 times. In the last 24 hours, The New York Times via Women In the World, The Huffington Post, Hello GigglesThe Daily Dot, Boing Boing, Bustle, Someecards and The Daily Edge have all published pieces on the phenomena of this Tweet I called, “Mansplaining: The Statue.” The Writing Center at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia turned the Tweet’s image into a meme. The Tweet has been translated and reposted in various languages. People have started posting photos of themselves with the statues. Art critic Jerry Saltz appropriated the Tweet as his own joke on Twitter, which was then reposted by writer Rebecca Solnit whose essay (and later book by the same name), “Men Explain Things To Me” is often cited as the concept for the term “mansplaining.”

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