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#picturethis: America’s boring, beautiful architecture
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / March 19, 2017On @timeline_now (twi.); source: But they are fascinating nevertheless. The Historic American Buildings Survey(HAPS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) archives began in the 1930s an...
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#vivelafeminism: Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do? @zoesqwilliams
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 16, 2017These cuts are a feminist issue because they hit women disproportionately, and black and ethnic-minority women particularly hard. But this would be a feminist issue whoever bore the brunt of it, one p...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: the women’s protest that sparked the Russian revolution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 15, 2017The first day of the Russian revolution – 8 March (23 February in the old Russian calendar) – was International Women’s Day, an important day in the socialist calendar. By midday of that day in 19...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Auxiliary Corps
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017#Repost @standardissuemagazine ・・・ One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Auxiliary Corps was founded. By the time the war ended in November 1918, more than 57,000 women had served. We’re celeb...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Remembering the Matchgirls’ Strike – @progressonline
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017The received wisdom is that the heroic London dockers of 1889 led the way towards social justice, greater equality and spurred the foundation of the Labour movement.In fact it was London’s working cla...
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#womenslives: “My abortion made me appreciate all that abortion providers do for women” – @broadly
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 13, 2017I was nervous before my abortion. Even though I was confident in my decision to end my pregnancy, and even though I knew I would receive excellent care, I found myself shaking as I climbed onto the ex...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #herstory: colorized photos from early suffrage marches bring women’s history to life
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017profeminist: “In 1909, at the original such march, it was for better working conditions. This year, the day will be an occasion for the movement associated with January’s post-Inauguration Women’...
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#womenslives: “I freakin’ marched for you! You won’t get down on this?!”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / March 12, 2017[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTMow_7H47Q?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]“I freakin’ marched for you! Yo...
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#vivelafeminism: No more cupcakes! A call to action on International Women’s Day
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 8, 2017What is clear in the standard attempts of workplaces to “celebrate” IWD is that women = frivolity. Rather than using the occasion to address the pay gap, sexual harassment, domestic violence leave pro...
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#vivelafeminism: America is in crisis—and women of color are at war – @msmagazine #resist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 7, 2017Molly AdamsOne of my closest friends recently discovered she was pregnant. She and her husband had been trying to start a family since college, but were unable to because the women in her family suffe...
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event/ CFP: The Welcome City? Leeds, 11-13 Sept.
By feimineach / in #research, #event / March 5, 2017Call for Papers - one week until deadline, 10th March The Welcome City? RC21 Conference, Rethinking Global Urban Justice, University of Leeds, 11-13 September Convenors: Dr Hannah Lewis, Uni...
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#research: people morally outraged by other people who don’t want kids – @broadly
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 4, 2017Not only did participants perceive the voluntarily childfree male and female subjects to be “significantly less psychologically fulfilled than targets with two children,” Ashburn-Nardo not...
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todayin: history: February 27th 1933: Reichstag fire
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / March 4, 2017todayinhistory: February 27th 1933: Reichstag fire Onthis day in 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin, whichhoused the German Parliament, was set on fire. The Nazi government ofAdolf Hitler ...
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#saturdaysatire: New House of Cards series cancelled ‘because it can’t compete with this sh*t’ – @whispersnewsltd
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / March 4, 2017STREAMING GIANT Netflix has made the decision to cancel its successful House of Cards series, citing the fact that despite an effort to create a series of compelling and dramatic events surrounding th...
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#vivelafeminism: A new era of feminist activism – @msmagazine #weresist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 3, 2017Molly Adams: Since returning back to Minnesota, Tubbs Campbell has not only joined a Women’s March huddle—she is hosting next month’s meeting—but has also donated to a number of causes, made phone cal...
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#research: Nearly nine-in-ten Americans say open and fair elections are important to democracy in the U.S
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 3, 2017pewresearch:Nearly nine-in-ten Americans say open and fair elections are important to democracy in the U.S., while large shares say the same about a system of checks and balances and the right to nonv...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism for the 99% – @jacobinmag
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 2, 2017Clinton’s feminism was intensely individual: one could never stop hearing a silent “it’s my turn” in every public speech. Deeply neoliberal, her feminism was hopelessly attached to a political world t...
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BSA event 30.06: BSA Regional Early Career Event: The Precariatisation of Women’s Lives
By feimineach / in #research, #event / March 2, 2017BSA Regional Early Career Event The Precariatisation of Women’s Lives Friday 30th June 2017, 9.00-17.15 Sheffield Hallam University Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics and Sheffiel...
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#research: Judith Butler (b. 1956) is a philosopher and theorist
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 25, 2017celebratingamazingwomen:JudithButler (b. 1956) is a philosopher and theorist whohas had a great shaping influence on political philosophy, as well as feminist andqueer theory. She is a Professor of Li...
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#vivelafeminism: Finding your voice in a pussy grabbing world – @bellejarteam
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 24, 2017I once wrote an article about how travelling solo as a female isn’t inherently dangerous. There’s a narrative around female solo travel that seems to want to hold women back from stepping out into the...
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