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• A Platform for Female Photographers

  
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  Last Friday I went to have a look at the Zimbabwe Association of Female Photographers (ZAPF) exhibition. It is an amazing illustration of talent, as well as being a great cause for female empowerment. It expresses women’s abilities and has given a chance for female photojournalists in Zimbabwe to demonstrate their ...
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• Does All Body Dissatisfaction Predict Eating Problems in Women?

  
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  Researchers have found a link between startle response in women and risk for body dissatisfaction, and therefore eating and food issues.
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• Cognitive Perceptions in Anorexia Shift with Body Position

  
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  Experts believe that because women with eating and food issues have deficits in spatial processing skills, they may be at risk for perpetuating their negative body image and eating behaviors.
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• A Play: The Turned Leaf

  
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  Elizabeth Christine Tanner wrote a play, The Turned Leaf , about her troublesome relationship with her mentally ill mother. “A young girl’s traumatic event may have triggered her inherited undiagnosed mental illness. The Turned Leaf follows one woman’s struggle with a mental illness, the effect it has on her ...
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• Free to be you by Silva Farache

  
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  No two sunsets are the same, yet we recognize the beauty in a sunset even when seen for the first time. The definition of beautiful has been so fragmented and distorted by how others perceive it and “Us”. We don’t trust ourselves enough to simply enjoy the reflection of our own mirrors. We somehow rely on the ...
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• Genetic Variations Found in Mothers with Caregiving Deficits

  
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  Mothers who endured neglect, abuse, or abandonment during childhood seem to have higher levels of depression and more likelihood of perpetuating similar issues with their own children.
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• NC Legislature Wants To Teach Children Lies

  
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  If the Republicans in the GOP-dominated legislature get their way, students in North Carolina sex education classes will be taught that abortions are a cause of future pre-term births . You know who says that is true?  Me neither. You know who says thats not true? The World Health Organization The CDC The ...
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• Painting Over Insecurity

  
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  Most people approach new situations with joy, excitement, and anticipation. Benchmark Recovery Center took the female residents on an outing this week that was no different. Looking around the art studio, I observed carefree conversations, laughter, and merriment. The excitement for me, however, was short-lived. ...
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• Commemorating Three Years with Some Last Name Talk

  
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  Yesterday was our third wedding anniversary. It was probably on our third date, maybe our fourth, that I told the then-boyfriend that I was planning on keeping my own last name whenever I got married. It was a deal breaker, I said, if he wasnt ok with that. Intense? Too soon? Maybe. But Ill be honest: I ...
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• Right Outrage, Wrong Target

  
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  26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2013 What a monumental douche. The problem isnt putting men and women together.  Does Donald have separate areas in his ...
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• Weld County Board Renews Decision to Ban Plan B at Health Clinics

  
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  Colorado’s Weld County Board on Monday renewed a 2010 policy that prevented county health clinics funded by the federal Title X women’s health program from dispensing Plan B emergency contraception to their mostly young and low-income patients. The conservative commissioners behind the policy have argued ...
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• NC Legislature Cant Keep Its Hands Of Womens (and Young Girls) Bodies

  
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  Think Progress : A  measure  advancing in the North Carolina legislature would require teens to obtain notarized, written parental consent in order to access  a range of health services , including testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, birth control prescriptions, pregnancy care, mental health ...
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• Happy Mother’s Day to Moms with Kids with Special Needs

  
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  A recent TV ad says it all. It follows a mom through her day with a little boy who appears to have some kind of developmental delay. The voice-over tells us he was in the neonatal intensive care unit for over 100 days. Now he looks somewhere between 3 and 4 years old. She makes him a peanut butter sandwich and ...
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• I Touch Myself.

  
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  the inside woman I love to play with myself. Call it what you want; diddling, flicking the bean, tickling the kitty, onanism, buffing the bead, doodling the noodle, masturbation, or my fave, paddling the pink canoe. It is all fun. And there is nothing wrong with it, even if you think there is, it can be your ...
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• Time to reassess. The Obama campaign to keep Plan B unavailable.

  
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  Via Atrios, Irin Carmon at Salon [District Court Judge Edward Korman] repeatedly slammed his hand down on the table for emphasis, interrupting the government counsel’s every other sentence with assertions like, “You’re just playing games here,” “You’re making an intellectually dishonest argument,” ...
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• Military Sexual Assault Cases ‘Skyrocket’ in 2012

  
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  From AOL/Huffpost Political News:   Do you think sexual assaults have really increased? I don’t. I think those assaulted – it isn’t always women – are becoming braver about reporting the assaults. Until now, reporting a sexual assault has not resulted in the investigation of the assault, but has often ...
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• Sex with Your Ex: Bad Idea or Harmless Fun?

  
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  Divorce and breakups are hard for most people. It’s probably one of the most traumatic experiences a person can go through, next to the death of a loved one, or getting a letter from the IRS. Yet for others, it’s a blast of freedom, a chance to reset and start again. But one aspect of getting divorced — or ...
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• 7 May 2013

  
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  Good morning. Hope everyone has a great day. There is a lot I could say about American Politics, but I won’t because I don’t believe that the United States Government represents the PEOPLE anymore… Don’t believe that WE THE PEOPLE can make a difference for GOOD in our current GOVERNMENT. The Government is ...
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• They did it anyway: Women in jazz

  
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  THE GIRLS IN THE BAND , written, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin ,   tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30′s to the present day. “A vivid experience…I sat there watching and just wiping tears ...
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• Emergency Plan B Contraception: no age restrictions?

  
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  The Washington Post has posted its opinion.  Here is the background part for your consideration: WHEN U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month that the government had to allow unrestricted, over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B, it seemed as though the Obama administration had ...
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