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#MoreThanMean: Jumana Bambot on women journalists and online harassment

If you have seen Twitter, you know that tweets can be brilliant, hilarious, informative, helpful, entertaining, and also very vulgar, threatening, and abusive. Women sports journalists are among the targets of the most vile and violent harassment. Ms. Magazine and editorial intern Jumana Bambot call attention to the situation and suggest a strategy for improving it in this May 2016 blog post.

Read it here: Bambot, “Watch What Happens When Men Read Abusive Tweets to Female Sports Reporters”

Draft on tap: Danielle Harris on women and the military draft

There is a bill right now in the US House of Representatives that would require women to register for the military draft upon reaching the age of 18, just as men are currently required to do. This proposal is sure to ignite a firestorm of debate, and DePaul University student Danielle Harris is among the first to weigh in on the issue in this May 2016 editorial in her school newspaper, the DePaulia.

Read it here: Harris, “Combating sexism: Women and the military draft”