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18 Badass Women You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2014

1. The woman who launched Saudi Arabia’s first all-woman law firm. Stringer/Reuters Bayan Mahmoud al-Zahran opened the country’s first female law firm, where she’ll represent women and bring women’s rights issues into the courts. “I believe women lawyers can contribute a lot to the legal system,” al-Zahran said. “This law firm will make a difference …

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Potty Mouth Princesses: all they want from Santa is equal pay for women

They may be on the naughty list but these pint-sized princesses are determined to teach a sexist Santa Claus about women’s rights. The young girls caused a stir earlier this year with a video highlighting sexism against women, and in the Potty Mouth Princesses’ latest film they’re back to promote equal pay. Dressed in their …

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Τα φινλανδικά εσώρουχα της γιαγιάς

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame Published online: 26 November 2014 Ceci n’est pas mon corps, clothed. © Baltic Circle An 83-year-old flasher—that’s what Finnish police saw in Dries Verhoeven’s performance piece Ceci n’est pas mon corps (This is not my body), which came to Helsinki earlier this month. For the work, part …

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United front: breasts without the airbrush

How do you feel about your breasts? One photographer asked 100 women to bare all. Laura Dodsworth The Guardian, Saturday 6 September 2014 The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth’s pictures of 100 women’s breasts isn’t the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem …

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