May 2, 2011

By Rosemary Daniels

Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood is a group on the UF campus that promotes safe sex, sex education, healthy relationships, and reproductive rights. That’s what the pamphlet says and that’s what you’ve heard before. Here’s what it means in action.

May 2, 2011

By Chelsea Hetelson

This is 2011 and I will not sit idly by while women’s rights are reversed and the glass ceiling is lowered. And neither should you.

Mar 29, 2010

By Lydia Fiser

I don’t have much to say about this other than watch it. Staceyann Chin is truthful and raw and reminds me why free speech is so essential. I know that about three minutes into this, almost every man will shun away, click out of the blog post, close his laptop, and run. Don’t. Keep watching. [...]

Mar 23, 2010

By Kelley Coggins-Anton

In the life of a college student, spring cleaning conveniently coincides with the end of spring semester. And while we considered barraging you with a roll-call of eco-conscious cleaners, who has the time to scrub the floors like a 1950s housewife? Not us. Instead, the Fine Print DIY staff is focusing on a more manageable interior space and the one most likely to be ignored during your spring cleaning: your vagina. Not to insinuate that it’s dirty. Just cluttered. Cluttered with feminine hygiene products that are bleached with chemicals that can be absorbed during use and produce 300 pounds of trash in a woman’s menstruating lifetime.

Feb 23, 2010

By Erin Cass

Tonight Wild Iris is hosting a film screening of the documentary Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women. The video is only half an hour long, so it’s worth stopping by if you can! According to Jean Kilbourne, one of the main arguments of the video “is that advertising, as perhaps the primary storyteller [...]

Oct 4, 2009

By Matthew Clark

Feministing lets you know you must see Sins Invalid in San Francisco, and has some good interviews on it. Also, a good deconstruction on gendered bathrooms. Sweet Melissa talks about how divorce could lead to equality. And Ann Coleman breaks own how marriage equality is about something greater. I used to be pretty anti-marriage, mostly [...]

Oct 4, 2009

By Matthew Clark

Sherry Wolf, a long-time activist and planner for the March on Washington came to Gainesville, Fla. last week and spoke at the Radical Rush Banquet. She’s the recent author of Sexuality and Socialism, and there will be a post soon with an interview I did with her before her speech. The speech is in three [...]