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#vivelafeminism: The feminist army leading the fight against ISIS – @redpeppermag

August 2, 2017

What it did not anticipate in Kobane was to encounter an enemy of a different kind – an organised, political community that was ready to defend itself courageously by all means necessary, and with a worldview that turns ISIS’s death ideology on its head. Arîn Mîrkan, a young, revolutionary Kurdish woman, would become the symbol of Kobane’s victory. A fighter […]

#feministslives: How to spot an intellectual misogynist (and what to do with one)

July 10, 2017

(It’s like a word-for-word description of some of my days.) ••• Have you ever had somebody try to explain logically why your feminist views are misdirected? Perhaps you’ve had to watch them draw you a graph, or even a pie chart, delineating why feminism should be replaced with the word “humanism”. Maybe you’ve tried to contribute to a conversation about […]

#womenslives: Women on the Run – @msmagazine

July 4, 2017

“Women on the run” is how the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees describes the population of Central American mothers (and children) at the U.S. / Mexico border. In a recently issued report, UNHCR describes the “surging tide of violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala,” both domestic and gang-related, that is forcing thousands of mothers and children to escape to […]

#research: Will women vote for women in 2018? It depends on if they’re married – @ConversationUK

July 2, 2017

[O]ur research indicates that Clinton’s failure to capture the white female vote is, in part, based in something more fundamental – marriage. The fate of women We found that when married white women felt disconnected from other women, answering “no” to the question above, they were less likely to identify as a Democrat, and more likely to hold conservative […]

#patriarchiesrealign: women aren’t special: the insidious nature of benevolent sexism – @rolereboot

June 8, 2017

A friend of mine recently shared a Vox article written by a self-proclaimed progressive dude titled, “Democrats should start accepting pro-life liberals like me” (spoiler, he’s really pro-choice). While the piece has its points, one line in particular didn’t sit well with me. The author, in an attempt to prove his progressive cred, begins listing the values that make him […]

#womenslives: costly, traumatic nightmare of being undocumented and pregnant – @Madame_George on @broadly

June 2, 2017

Undocumented migrants already struggle to access healthcare, but doctors warn that the problem is especially acute among pregnant women. Li fled to the UK in 2012, escaping persecution in China for being a Christian. But her problems got exponentially worse when she found out she was pregnant. Turned away from her local GP because she didn’t have documents to prove […]

#maleficentmisogyny: Bikini Season. Sarah Kiefer on @FemReligion

May 25, 2017

When I was about thirteen I went to a conference with the rest of the girls in youth group. It was a “modesty conference” geared at teaching young women the “biblical” truth of their role as a female and how that translates into how one dresses. We were taught that we are responsible for the relationship between our brothers in […]

#research: Women “display femininity” by doing housework, men “display masculinity” by not

April 26, 2017

[First I laughed. Then I wondered. Then I shook my head. Then I thought: ‘that makes some sort of sense’. Because patriarchy and gender and women long knowing the division of labour (and men benefiting) you see.] ••• British women who kick off their work shoes and get stuck into the housework when they get home of an evening, even […]

#vivelafeminism: a movement, not a moment: inside the outrage – @msmagazine

April 21, 2017

The Outrage launched six months ago with a focus on feminism and women’s empowerment. CEO Rebecca Lee Funk sought to blend style and activism. When Donald Trump became president, sales immediately skyrocketed. Funk became an official partner of the Women’s March, and decided her pop-up operation would remain open indefinitely. She hired Maldonado, who had never been a creative director, […]

#feminismisdead: Feminism: an excuse to exploit women? – @PatriarchTree

April 21, 2017

These are really disturbing allegations about the goings-on in the Thinx company, which is, apparently, based on “beliefs in gender equality”. This piece, however, is written by someone who is so clearly anti-feminism and who really wants to grind his feminist axe. See, for example, the statement: ‘Feminism often seems to be interpreted as carte blanche for women to engage in […]

#research: U of T: racial bias may begin in babies at six months

April 20, 2017

In the first study, published in Developmental Science, Lee showed that six- to nine-month-old babies begin to associate faces from their own race with happy music and those from other races with sad music. In the second study, published in Child Development, the researchers found that babies as young as six months were more inclined to learn information from […]

#research: bad chart thursday: the unbearable whiteness of being a Trump voter – @skepchicks

April 20, 2017

Well, okay, the chart does have one problem. The far-left column does not clearly label what the percentages mean. Those are each the percentage of total voters each group represents. This is particularly useful in understanding that, say, 25% of Latina voters voting for Trump only comes out to about 1.5 percentage points of Trump’s total 46.21 (total as of […]

#womenslives: “Why i’m done trying to get you to help fight rape culture” – @wearyourvoice

April 19, 2017

Sometimes it feels as if no matter how many times we write our stories, no matter how many statistics we show you, you don’t really care. (Content warning: discussion of sexual assault/rape) I’m not who I was before I was sexually assaulted. There are parts of myself that I have shed for my own safety and mental health. Being kind, […]

#vivelafeminism: being a libertarian and a feminist

April 18, 2017

Libertarians despise racism and sexism as much as anyone because it is a form of collectivism that strips someone’s individual identity with a set of traits and stereotypes. Rugged individualism is at the core of libertarian philosophy, while collectivist ideologies go against many of the tenants of libertarianism – the belief that the government should not outlaw “hate speech” for […]

#feminismisdead: #todayin: feminists doing feminism wrong: the problems with feminism

April 18, 2017

(Written by bloke who doesn’t like the femisinisms.) Based on research done by YouGov, an internet research firm, only 26 percent of the population in the U.S. identify as being a feminist. A more recent poll was done by Vox that shows that only 18 percent of the population identifies as being feminist. In this same poll it is shown […]

#patriarchiesrealign: Women who perform femininity are judged to be less suited to science #academia #research – @socimages

April 17, 2017

Sexism in American society has been on the decline. Obstacles to female-bodied people excelling in previously male-only occupations and hobbies have lessened. And women have thrived in these spaces, sometimes even overtaking men both quantitatively and qualitatively. Another kind of bias, though, has gotten worse: the preference for masculinity over femininity. Today we like our men manly, just like we […]

#vivelafeminism: How Romania’s feminists are fighting back

April 16, 2017

Abortion has been legal in Romania since the fall of Ceausescu. Under his rule, it’s estimated 10,000 women died as a result of so-called illegal abortions. For post-communist Romania, legalising abortion was seen as a way to move forward from the horrors of the dictatorship. Although abortion is now legal and free, the reality of accessing the procedure is much […]

#todayin: academia: #research: women academics do more “servce work” to their possible professional detriment

April 14, 2017

Women shoulder a disproportionately large workload at home in ways that might disadvantage them professionally. But are female professors also “taking care of the academic family” via disproportionate service loads? A new study says yes and adds to a growing body of research suggesting the same. “We find strong evidence that, on average, women faculty perform more service than male […]

#research: Sociologists urge use of big data to study human interaction

April 10, 2017

The internet dominates our world and each one of us is leaving a larger digital footprint as more time passes. Those footprints are ripe for studying, experts say. A new paper urges sociologists and social psychologists to focus on developing online research studies with the help of big data to advance theories of social interaction and structure. In a recently […]

#research: gender, socialisation and early sexism – @ConversationUK

April 6, 2017

Researchers have shown that by age one (and in some studies, as early as three months old), children show clear preferences for gender-consistent toys (eg trucks for boys, dolls for girls). This occurs even if they have only been exposed to gender-neutral toys, or had equal access to both “boys” and “girls” toys. So, does this mean that kids as […]

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