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Alanna Vagianos is the Women's Reporter at HuffPost. She covers gender and politics with a focus on sexual violence and activism. Previously, she worked at BUST Magazine and The Feminist Majority Foundation. She graduated from Elon University in North Carolina. Alanna can be reached at alanna.vagianos@huffpost.com.
HuffPostRevealed: Even More Insurrectionists Have Histories Of Violence Against Women
At least three more men at the Jan. 6 riot have histories of domestic violence or sexual abuse arrests. A HuffPost investigation in February had found nine others.
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Home Isn’t A Guarantee For Survivors Fleeing Domestic Abusers During COVID-19
Survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence experience housing insecurity at disproportionate rates and as a direct result of the violence they’ve endured. The pandemic has made it unimaginably worse.
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Biden Omits Hyde Amendment From Budget, Keeping Promise To Defend Abortion Rights
The amendment makes abortion essentially inaccessible for low-income women and many women of color.
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Creating Gender-Affirming Spaces Literally Saves LGBTQ Kids’ Lives
A Trevor Project survey found that LGBTQ youth who had at least one accepting adult were 40% less likely to report suicide attempts in the past year.
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Amanda Nguyen’s Fight For AAPI Justice Is An Intersectional One
As an Asian American and the founder of civil rights organization Rise, Nguyen knows all too well how racism and sexism can work in tandem.
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West Virginia Governor Can’t Name 1 Time Trans Kids Received Advantage In Sports
Republican Gov. Jim Justice passed a bill this week banning trans women and girls from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identities.
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Biden Urges Passage Of Equality Act As Anti-Trans Youth Bills Advance In Several States
Lawmakers in Florida and West Virginia advanced anti-transgender legislation during the president's hour-long speech to Congress on Wednesday night.
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Transgender Children Across The U.S. Are Fighting For Their Lives (Again)
More than 30 states have introduced laws that include banning trans kids from school sports and criminalizing parents for providing gender-affirming medical care.
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One Of The Cops Involved In Breonna Taylor's Death Just Got A Book Deal
Who better to tell the inside story of the tragedy than one of its perpetrators?
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Larry Nassar Survivors Hoped The John Geddert Case Would Bring Answers. Then Geddert Killed Himself.
The former USA Gymnastics coach is dead, and serial sexual abuser Nassar is behind bars. But the people who enabled them are still out there.
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Lawmakers Renew Fight To Reverse ‘Anti-Choice,' ‘Blatantly Racist’ Hyde Amendment
The Hyde Amendment denies insurance coverage for abortions to people who receive their health coverage through government-sponsored plans like Medicaid.
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A Biden Appointee Will Oversee Title IX. Sexual Assault Survivors Say She’s A Bad Choice.
It was an "open secret" at Columbia University that Suzanne Goldberg dismissed victims and protected the administration, student sexual assault survivors say.
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'The Virus Is Protecting Me': Remote Learning Is Keeping Many Sexual Assault Survivors Safe
Some college sexual assault victims welcomed remote learning due to COVID-19 because it was the only form of protection they could get.
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Congresswomen Renew Push To Repeal 'Racist' Anti-Abortion Helms Amendment
“Making abortion legal isn’t the beginning of women having abortions. It’s the end of women dying from abortions,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).
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Biden To Sign Executive Order Reviewing Betsy DeVos’ Title IX Rules
The president will also sign an executive order establishing a Gender Policy Council within the executive office.
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House Passes Bill Making It Illegal For Federal Officers To Engage In Sex Acts With Detainees
“There is no consent when one person is exercising the power of law enforcement and the other is handcuffed or in custody," said Rep. Jackie Speier.
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Lawmakers Aim To End ‘Boyfriend Loophole,’ Keep Guns From Abusers
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) introduced the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act on Tuesday morning.
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Former USA Gymnastics Coach John Geddert Dead After Human Trafficking Charges
Geddert was close with former USA Gymnastics trainer and serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar.
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Former Andrew Cuomo Aide Alleges New York Governor Kissed Her Without Consent
Lindsey Boylan also accused the governor of making inappropriate comments and fostering a hostile workplace for women in an essay published Wednesday.
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U.S. Could Prevent 19 Million Unsafe Abortions Abroad If Helms Amendment Is Repealed
The Guttmacher Institute analyzed the impact of rescinding the amendment, which bars U.S. foreign aid from being used to pay for abortions abroad.