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One Billion Rising

On Valentine’s day this year, the Women’s Resource Center and students at  the University of Alabama joined the One Billion Rising campaign. The One Billion Rising campaign was founded by Eve Ensler to raise awareness about global violence against women.  This year in cities across the globe, women came together in flash mobs on Valentine’s day to dance for awareness.  Through the V day flash mobs, women were able to take up public space with their bodies and create community […]

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The Unexpected Feminism of HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS

Here is what I was expecting when I went to see HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS. A) There would be witches. B) Hansel and Gretel would hunt them. C) It would probably be a better movie than, say, VAN HELSING (the movie that critics seem to be comparing it to most frequently)—because how could it not be? And D) I would emerge from the movie theater with the mixed feeling of annoyance (at what I assumed would be its sexist, […]

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