Month: November 2016
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Call for Submissions
We at Release the Women have a passion for stories, specifically yours! If you are a woman a male ally a puppy with a cool feminist owner Then we want to hear from you! Send us your stories, essays, poems, and any other written expression about any of the following: feminism, spirituality, race, politics, religion, travel,…
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“I hope you end up like me strong”
Women’s bodies are a battleground in politics, religion, economics, and literal war. I think as a woman with a body, it’s important to give space for this body to speak, so I am letting this be that space. “What he said was terrible/inexcusable/repulsive/horrific, but…” That “but” is rape culture. As most everyone knows by now, there is…
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Strong Women
Mother’s Day was last Sunday, and I celebrated it like most other millennials did: by sending a short text to my mother and posting on Facebook an old picture of her holding me as a baby. I’m the third child out of four. There are four of us that my mother gave birth to, fed…
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Theadora: Women in Music
Theadora is effortlessly cool. She is a wonderful musician and human being with some crazy awesome hair. She just released a song on Spotify called “Paper Shores”. Her sound is fantastic, and her musical journey has been full of challenge, victory, and beauty. Thea grew up in a musical family. With her dad having a…