ByNinaMartin

reporting, musings, and connecting the dots, by nina martin

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"I tend to be cynical about a lot of things, but Maya Angelou is somebody that no matter how much I pick her apart, she still has integrity. She was a victim of incest and rape, and she worked as a stripper. And now she’s a literary icon and Nobel Laureate. It goes to show that life is cumulative, and you can’t devalue any type of experience."

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Mike “You’ve done it again” Luckovich, 2014-05-30.

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This is important

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This graphic is ridiculously effective and helpful.

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What happens when we strip headlines of their attempt at shock value and banal sexism?

Folks at The Vagenda had the idea of asking readers to rewrite headlines.  The results were fantastic. These are some of them.  More here.

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If you want to understand why the new Lego female scientist kits are such a big step forward, just compare them to earlier Lego efforts to capture the little-girls-who-like-to-build-things demographic. The absence of pink and purple (and boobs, as in the "rock star" Lego figure above) is awesome.

For more on how the new "Research Institute" line came to be, mentalfloss has the scoop here.

(All images via Lego)

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Lundy Bancroft on Domestic Violence in Popular Culture, Part 1.

Lundy has twenty years of experience specializing in interventions for abusive men and their families. He has also authored many other book chapters and scholarly articles. Lundy is a former Co-Director of Emerge, the nation’s first counseling program for men who batter. He has worked with over a thousand abusers directly as an intervention counselor, and has served as clinical supervisor on another thousand cases. He has also served extensively as a custody evaluator, child abuse investigator, and expert witness in domestic violence and child abuse cases. Lundy appears across the United States as a presenter for judges and other court personnel, child protective workers, therapists, law enforcement officials, and other audiences.

Lundy Bancroft is an author, workshop leader, and consultant on domestic abuse and child maltreatment. His work focuses on three areas: 1) Training professionals on best practices for intervening with male perpetrators of violence against women, toward the goal of promoting accountability and requiring change, 2) Training professionals on the dynamics of emotional injury and recovery in children who are exposed to a man who abuses their mother, to prepare participants to offer the most effective and safe assistance possible to children and their mothers, and 3) Supporting healing and empowerment for abused women, with an emphasis on advocating for the human rights of mothers and their children.

Lundy is the author of four books in the field, including

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse

The national prize-winner The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics (with Dr. Jay Silverman).

Should I Stay or Should I Go (with JAC Patrissi) 

Lundy is available as a public speaker and trainer for professionals, and offers weekend retreats for women who have experienced abuse. - (x)

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The absence of women in history is man made.

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Must read: Why Nigeria hasn’t yet found its 300 missing girls.

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"For the longest time, I was so focused on being deaf in my left ear, that I almost forgot my other ear was perfectly fine."

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On National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, always fighting for the healthiest generation. 

Gorgeous graphics via Advocates for Youth.

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Soldiers say Army’s new hairstyle bans are racially biased against black women.

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Minimum wage is a women’s rights issue

Data shows most Americans making minimum wage are women. In reality, not only are more than half of all minimum wage workers women, they’re adult women with children who earn half of their family’s income. For this reason, not only is raising the minimum wage to $10.10 a labor rights issue, but a major women’s issue as well.

Women are more likely to hold low-wage jobs than men. In 2012, 64% of minimum wage workers were women compared to 36% of men. This means about 2.4 million women earn the minimum wage or less, while approximately 1.2 million men do. This imbalance is even more striking once you consider that women are just 46.8% of all employed workers in the United States.  

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