Our Commander-in-Grief Has Given This Damn Speech 11 Times
We demand a production shutdown when there's a salmonella outbreak. So why, with each massacre, do we protect our firearms more fiercely than our children?
Gina Loukareas
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Gina Loukareas is a Boston-based writer, social media strategist and activist. She's one of the co-founders of A is For..., a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting reproductive rights.
Emmys’ Long-Awaited Firsts Outweighed the Usual “Worsts”
Last night the awards show made history (Viola Davis!), warmed hearts (Uzo Aduba! Jill Soloway!), and proved that TV is a pretty great place for women right now.
A Personal Message to the Duggar Girls
DAME columnist Gina Loukareas shares next to nothing in common with the silenced, subservient women of '19 and Counting.' Except one important, devastating truth.
Tim McGraw Is Being “Dixie Chick’d” For Standing Up For Gun Control
A simple partnership with a Sandy Hook non-profit has “patriots" using the country star for target practice. When did we trade rationale for “rights”?
Are We Seriously Talking About Hillary’s Hormones?
‘Time’ magazine says the presidential candidate is “biologically primed to be a leader.” It's not like she has any experience or anything.
Pro Tip: Don’t Talk to Women About Their Bodies
No female can escape the scrutiny of her body—we're either "too fat" like Kelly Clarkson, or "too thin" like Giuliana Rancic. Why don’t we talk about something else entirely, okay?
This Anti-Choice Ploy Will Make You Explode with Anger
Life News recently got hit by a non-violent glitter “bomb,” and cried to readers that they’d been attacked. They should know better, as people who incite truly deadly clinic bombings.
Dear Oscar, Your Host’s Flipness Was for the Birds
We went in expecting an #OscarsSoWhite—and Neil Patrick Harris ensured that we got it, with glib jokes undermining powerful speeches that could have redeemed the evening.
Five Awful Things Congress Will Likely Do to Women This Year
They’ve only been back in session less than a week, but the GOP-run House and Senate have come out, guns-a-blazing, ready to destroy what’s left of our reproductive rights.