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Deadline for Miss District of Columbia Approaches
Do you have "ideas and plans and goals"? Have you "so much to offer the world"? Are you a pretty lady (pictured)? Enter the 2009 Miss District of Columbia competition! Interested women, ages 17 to 24,...
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Miss D.C. Meets Grope With Body Slam
This year, I wrote a series about public sexual assaults in the District, and how victims respond to them. I separated typical victim responses into four categories: freezing, talking back, fighting...
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Mr. and Miss Capital Pride Shall Not Get High, Destroy Things, Wear Black Jeans
Traditional beauty pageants come with all sorts of strange entrance requirements. In order to compete in the Miss America pageant, for example, a constestant must be an unmarried woman who has always...
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Beauty Pageants Meet LGBT Activism
I've never been a big fan of one way beauty pageants choose to award scholarship money to young women (Swimsuits! Why did it have to be swimsuits!). But pageant contestants using the competition to...
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