Kate Harding (page 7)

Kate Harding is the author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape
Culture–and What We Can Do About It, available from Da Capo Press in August 2015. Previously, she collaborated with Anna Holmes, Amanda Hess, and a cast of thousands on The Book of Jezebel, and with Marianne Kirby on Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. You might also remember her as the founding editor of Shapely Prose (2007-2010).

Kate’s essays have appeared in the anthologies Madonna & Me, Yes Means Yes, Feed Me, and Airmail: Women of Letters. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a B.A. in English from University of Toronto, and is currently at work on a Ph.D. in creative writing from Bath Spa University

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Kate Harding (page 7)

Your vagina is ugly

What would Jesus do with a frozen embryo?

Face it: The Democratic Party is not for women

Advice to GOP: Quit repulsing women

Tiller’s murderer confesses: I killed to save babies

Was Kimberly Munley the real Fort Hood hero?

Why don’t feminists think porn empowers women?

Screaming toddlers on a plane!

Women with fistula: “The lepers of the 21st century”

A woman’s right to choose a losing candidate?

Will Lilith Fair 2010 be another big hippie joke?

“Dead, brutalized women sell books”

School prohibits dirty dancing

“Law & Order’s” anti-choice propaganda

Frenchwomen: Still cooler than you

“Get mommed”? Get real, Kleenex

Should a teenager sail the globe?

Scandal: Why did a “Mad Men” scribe get axed?

Keeping kids safe after Columbine — at what cost?

Another child dies of unanswered prayers

Ralph Lauren owns up to Photoshop disaster

Must Hollywood dads be so clueless?

The best Polanski you might have missed

Polanski, “Hounddog” and 13-year-old voices