Latest Fem/Gender
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Lesvy Berlin Rivera Osorio’s death in Mexico City was ruled a suicide amidst judicial irregularities and impunity. Activists are mobilizing to denounce the death not only as murder, but also as feminicide
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Boseley: A global death warrant for women
With one devastating flourish of the presidential pen, worldwide progress on family planning, population growth and reproductive rights was swept away. Now some of the world’s poorest women must count the cost
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Zeese: Green Party Growing Pains
The Green Party needs to put systems in place that will ensure black people, youths, women and other groups are represented throughout the party and play key leadership roles
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Contributors: The Combahee River Collective statement
A 1977 statement by a black feminist group which is widely considered a foundational text of the 'intersectional' approach to identity politics, which emphasises multiple, simultaneous forms of oppression
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Contributors: Dismantling the US
Trump has been paralyzed on healthcare and tax reform, but his administration has been active in eroding safeguards and protections elsewhere
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Barber: Burden of being a Black woman in the South
Percent of the total U.S. African-American population living in the...
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Law: Women in Prison Speak Out
In federal prison in California, people stood in front of the television in shock as they learned about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' memo, which promises to intensify the war on drugs
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Meadows-Fernandez: Toxic Masculinity
Negative remarks about the male romper trend can harm black male identity development
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Germanos: Expanded Global Gag Rule
Trump Escalates Attack on Healthcare, Women
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Clements: Fighting gun violence
Ending gun violence is a feminist issue and women can and must continue to lead this struggle
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Meadows-Fernandez: The Oppressive History of the Birth Industry
Acknowledging the whiteness of the birth industry means coming to terms with this fact and finding a way to transform an anti-Black institution
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Burns: A feminist revolution demands climate justice
Feminist leaders, particularly indigenous women and grassroots organisers, have to be at the frontlines of climate change decision-making
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Menos Collective: Femicide Is A Collective Pact Among Sexist Men
We must denounce a judicial system that rushes to criminalize us for abortion, for protesting and defending ourselves, and is disinterested in enacting strategies to safeguard and protect us
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Asher-Schapiro: Uber & Sexual Harassment
In 2012, shortly after Uber started operating in Los Angeles,...
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Jena: Trolling of Women Journalists Threatens Free Press
Female journalists, bloggers and other media actors are disproportionally experiencing gender related threats, harassment and intimidation on the Internet
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Gupta: Rojava-inspired women’s councils in Europe
Could this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing neoliberal political systems?
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Premkumar: Police Violence and Reproductive Health
If one lives in a community that is frequently policed, the accumulative effects of these interactions can have health consequences more insidious than those caused by actual physical violence
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Jayaraman: On the Backs of Women
Most consumers do not know the extent of poverty, discrimination, and sexual harassment faced by millions of women in the restaurant industry
ZMag Fem/Gender
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Finley: A Feminist Perspective on Trumpcare
Although the American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 is rife with problems, one of the most disturbing is its shocking gender bias.
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Windham: Working Class Feminism
Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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imagine when women in such a society decide that they are going to change this. Even some victims will oppose them—there is serious internalization of sexism as there is with racism.
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Menos Collective: The International Women’s Strike
The October 19 strike was the first women’s strike in the history of Argentina and Latin America. A strike was called for one hour, in all possible spaces: workplaces, educational spaces, domestic spaces, neighborhood ones, etc. The following mobilization was truly enormous: more than 250,000 people in Buenos Aires and more marches all over the country
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The Hill reports that the Trump budget may well slash Federal funding for the 25 programs that grew out of the Violence against Women Act.
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In the most simplistic terms, the feminization of poverty refers to the fact that women represent a disproportionate share of the world’s poor. Further, the feminization of poverty is not only a consequence of lack of income, but is also the result of the deprivation of opportunities and gender biases
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Although I generally applaud the notion of a national conversation...
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It is fair to say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 brought the United States into the 20th Century. That comprehensive law made it illegal to engage in racial, gender, and national origin discrimination in public accommodations--like hotels and restaurants--and employment. Yet, the law says very little about what exactly constitutes discrimination
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A. Haught: The Long, Long Journey to Women’s Equality
Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women.” Even with the possibility of a female. president, the battle for full equality still isn’t over.
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Finley: Changing the Conversation About the “Woman Card”
The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity politics because she, well, actually discussed the fact that the U.S. still has much to improve in terms of gender equality.
Video Fem./Gender
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Sarkeesian: Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival
Talk at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love
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Solnit: The Santa Barbara Massacre & Viral Response to Misogynist Violence
"Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender"
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Kirollos: Fighting Sexual Assault in Egypt
Interview with one of the founding members of Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, a group that patrols the streets during protests and fights off men as they attempt to encircle and assault women
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Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the...
Audio Fem./Gender
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In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
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Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth
Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
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Folbre: The Socialist Feminist Imaginary
NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of...
Fem/Gender Books
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: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
About the Book Palestinian Women is the first book to...
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Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues...
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As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham’s A Century of Women:...
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Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert...
Fem/Gender Blogs
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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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: Wisewords Bookclub: March 2011 – EVERY WEDNESDAY in MARCH.
On Wednesday 9 March Carol Dyhouse discusses her book "Glamour:...
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Black: Beyond Parts Per Million
Here is a great publication that I helped to put...
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Forte: Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation by the Taleban?
Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation...
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Black: G20 fightback campaigning in London, Ontario, Canada
Since the G20 Summit in Toronto, activists here in...
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Black: Inter-gender and inter-sex solidarity ?
Three photos from the local university campus — with written...
