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Why Homecoming Can Be Particularly Hard for Female Veterans

2015

In the return to civilian life, many women find that veteran services fall short of their needs. Unemployment rates for female veterans are higher than for other women, as well as for male veterans. Female veterans are at least twice as likely to be homeless than women who haven’t worn a uniform. See more...

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Audre Lorde Reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Audre Lorde reads the essay “Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power.” There are some ad-libs, but this reading is pretty faithful to the final text, which can be found in Lorde’s essay collection Sister Outsider, among other anthologies. One of the most important essays of the 20th century.

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Invisible Veterans | Kate Hendricks Thomas | TEDxTuscaloosa

Making the transition from active military duty to civilian life can be a challenge, especially when you're a woman. Kate shares how such challenges impact the health of military women when they become veterans using her own story as an example.

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11:29

Roxane Gay: Confessions of a Bad Feminist

When writer Roxane Gay dubbed herself a “bad feminist,” she was making a joke, acknowledging that she couldn’t possibly live up to the demands for perfection of the feminist movement. But she’s realized that the joke rang hollow.

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How Billie Jean King Changed Gender Equality in Sports

Former tennis star Bobby Riggs bragged that he could beat any female tennis player. In 1973, he met his match when he faced top-ranked Billie Jean King in a televised event dubbed the “Battle of the Sexes.”

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Tsultrim Allione—Fighting the Patriarchy

Lama Tsultrim Allione talks about patriarchy in Buddhism, and how moving past patriarchy starts with admitting its existence.

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Military to Civilian Re-entry