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Safe Passage: Access to Abortion in India by Sanita Santoshini 

Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Where Did Radical Cheerleaders Go? by Christine Ro

How the "Period Paradox" Keep Women Down by Elizabeth Yuko

Three Things That Need to Happen Before I Defend Men From Olympic Sexism by Lindy West

Nate Parker, Rape Culture, And Toxic Masculinity by Deirdre Cooper Owens 

Could someone please design a better speculum? by Lisa Godson

Mantles, Crowns, and Knowledge: What RiRi Williams Needs by Olivia Stephens

bell hooks and the Extraordinary Power of Names by Jene Gutierrez

I Created the Burkini to Give Women Freedom, Not to Take It Away by Aheda Zanetti

France's Burkini Ban Exposes the Hypocrisy of its Secularist State by Iman Amrani

Do Better: Sexual Violence in SFF by Sarah Gailey 

Fiction Excerpt: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

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