Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

Put plainly: we aren’t teaching children of color that they can grow up to vote.

Election 2016: The Cost Of Taking Civics And History Out Of Our Schools

Institutions can and do fail citizens, but as communities we can fix some of their mistakes.

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Nottingham Police Are Calling Street Harassment A Hate Crime

Ask any woman you know, and she can tell you a story about being taunted, propositioned, followed, grabbed, or otherwise harassed by strangers simply because she had the nerve to have a female body and be within their line of vision.

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Good bras are never cheap, and cheap bras are seldom any good.

The Real Reason Good Bras Are So F#%king Expensive

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no such thing as a perfect bra. More annoying is the equally-universally acknowledged truth that good bras are never cheap, and cheap bras are seldom any good.

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Is Hillary Clinton Going To Jail? 

Is Hillary Clinton going to jail for having email? The world — and last night’s debate moderators — want to know!

The short answer is: probably not.

Unless one of her emails contains a confession for actually killing Vince Foster. Which seems unlikely, since Hillary has a law degree from Yale and I think the first thing they teach you there is, “Don’t write incriminating shit down.”

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Periods are a valid reason to stay home from work.

Menstrual Vacation! Paid Time Off For Cramps. Amen.

Some people think periods are blessed celebrations of the cycles of womanhood and its connection to the earth.

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Donald Trump thought BEING PRESIDENT would be EASIER than his regular life. Oh America, what have we wrought? (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

#RavsRadar: Donald Trump - The Man Who Thought Being POTUS Would Be 'Easier' Than Regular Life. LOLSOB

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush and so many other candidates were imperfect and problematic in their own ways, but they were also career public servants who knew the risks and the responsibilities of the office. They expected it to be hard. They were ready for it to be hard. We should have elected one of them.

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Could Erin O'Flaherty Be The First Openly Gay Miss America?  

Erin O'Flaherty, Miss Missouri, is the first openly gay Miss America contestant.

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DC Blizzard Brings Ice, Snow, And The First All-Woman Senate Meeting In History

While most of the region was huddled in their homes with hot beverages and endless blizzard coverage, some intrepid Senators and their staffs made their way to the Capitol to gavel in a session of the Senate. And who were these dedicated public servants? I’ll tell you one thing: they weren’t men.

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Breaking News: You're Not A Weirdo For Having A Kink

Got a kink? Think you’re weird because of it? Turns out, nah. Kink is in!

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