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#todayin: *smh*: It’s time to consign the word ‘feminism’ to dustbin of history
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 31, 2015As well as a heckuvalot of roundups over the next couple of weeks (probably), there will also be a lot of “reflection” pieces on the state of feminism and women’s rights. Inevitably ...
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#todayin: labor history: December 30, 1936
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 30, 2015todayinlaborhistory:Today in labor history, December 30, 1936: Autoworkers at the General Motors Fisher Body No. 1 plant in Flint, Michigan, occupy the factory and begin a sit-down strike that lasts 4...
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#research: the language of rape culture
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 29, 2015You can find aggressive sexual language in the most casual conversations. The F-word and the much-hated C-word are obvious examples, but we seem to be developing more and more vocabulary based on sexu...
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#womensstories: Modern family
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / December 29, 2015Modern family. Piece by Jennifer Chen, in bust magazine. PDF of full piece is here.
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#womensstories: What a year of leading Britain’s first feminist political party has taught me – @sophierunning
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / December 28, 2015#womensstories: What a year of leading Britain’s first feminist political party has taught me - @sophierunning“[H]ow it feels to be totally, blissfully liberated from Britain’s male, white...
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#todayin: history: December 28th 1882
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 28, 2015todayinhistory:December 28th 1882: Lili Elbe bornOn this day in 1882, Danish painter Lili Elbe was born in Vejle, Denmark. Born as Einar Wegener, Elbe was assigned the male gender at birth. Elbe was a...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Mairéad Farrell, on “dirty protest” at Armagh jail in 1980
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 28, 2015Mairéad Farrell, on “dirty protest” at Armagh jail in 1980. Armagh women’s prison protests promoted feminism within the republican movement and challenged sexist attitudes, but women’s issues were not...
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#womenslives: “Although Grace had no way of knowing the exact dates she was incarcerated in isolation…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 28, 2015Although Grace had no way of knowing the exact dates she was incarcerated in isolation, she says this is one of the reasons why her asylum was refused by the Home Office. “They say I’m not...
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#saturdaysatire: woman reading the Guardian can’t take much more empowering
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / December 26, 2015TRAMORE native Louisa Ferris has almost reached an empowerment breaking point after reading the 67,067th article on the Guardian’s Comment is Free section this year, which has implored her to fully en...
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#todayin: rape culture: ‘Tis the season for “don’t get raped” advice (by @Elliehutch_ on @thefworduk)
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 24, 2015#todayin: rape culture: ‘Tis the season for “don’t get raped” advice (by @Elliehutch_ on @thefworduk) It’s that time of year again, the Christmas lights are on, the shops are heaving and we need ...
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#research: Exposure to nature may reduce crime, strengthen communities (on @newrepublic)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 22, 2015As urbanization, population growth and the rampant destruction of the natural world increase, human beings have become more and more isolated from nature—and at a significant cost. Spending time in n...
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#vivelafeminism: More than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist (on @5050oD)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 22, 2015I’ll mention two or three ‘tools’ that I learnt through my feminism, and why I talk about a feminist socialism. I think feminist socialism hasn’t been realised, and yet I also think that it’s so obvio...
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#vivelafeminism: On “choice” feminism (on @feministcurrent)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 21, 2015Liberal feminists stop debate by crying “choice” when radical feminists unpack the context and impacts of choices — especially choices that reinforce male supremacy. This usually happens in conversati...
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#womenslives: See how many of these fun groping styles you recognize
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / December 19, 2015See how many of these fun groping styles you recognize. Maybe you’ll even be able to add some fresh new groping styles of your own!The “Just walking by”: You’re on the street or the train or in line, ...
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#saturdaysatire: stuck up bitch can’t take a compliment, confirms local wolf whistler
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / December 19, 2015ONE of Waterford’s most prominent wolf whistlers has condemned the unappreciative reaction of a local woman to his well meaning compliment, WWN can confirm. Gary Sheedy, 29, was minding his own busin...
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#womensstories: Enforcing Northern Ireland’s new Swedish-style sex purchase law (via @RuthJacobs/ @roomofourown)
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / December 17, 2015Cross-posted from: Ruth Jacobs, originally published: 19.11.14.A rainy night in Belfast. Cold and wet with a wind whipping round the corners of the barren streets where women used to stand. How things...
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#a(nother)feministtakeon: Suffragette – a modern take on feminism’s origin (by @kathkenny_ on @womensagenda)
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 17, 2015I still haven’t seen this film. Mostly because I have yet to read anything particularly good about it. The piece below suggests that it is also, in places, anachronistic. Social movement movie...
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#womensstories: Nepal: the struggle for equal citizenship rights for women (by @renaissansa on @5050oD)
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / December 15, 2015Kathmandu celebrated an early Deepawali this year as inhabitants took to the streets on September 20th to welcome the new constitution. Celebrations were definitely in order - after all, this was a co...
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#todayin: who would have thunk it! Study finds women denied abortions negatively affected (from @feministing)
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 15, 2015Findings: women who were made continue a pregnancy they did not want were less hopeful about their future (e.g. education and employment), had worse physical health, were more likely to be living in p...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 14, 2015Meet the original suffragette: Mary Wollstonecraft. The founder of feminism, a philosopher, travel writer, human rights activist, she was a profound influence on the Romantics, and an educational pi...
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