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#vivelafeminism: Hundred years of votes for women: how far we’ve come and how far there’s still to go – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / February 8, 2018By establishing a higher threshold for membership of this community, the law ultimately reinforced women’s status as second class citizens. Women would have to wait another ten years before achieving ...
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#vivelafeminism: We are all revolutionaries here review: beyond stereotyped discourse around Pakistani women and hijabs – @feminisminindia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #women / January 29, 2018What stands out in this narrative is that it stays far away from the overused and tired rhetoric around Pakistani women. That of stereotypes about women who are “oppressed” ( the favourite word used i...
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#vivelafeminism: #enoughisenough: inside a new feminist campaign to end sexual violence and harassment – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 2, 2018The #EnoughIsEnough campaign—made possible by a collaboration between the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, National Congress of Black Women, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Legal ...
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#xisafeministissue: Taking care of each other is activism too – @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #xisafeministissue, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #women / October 29, 2017(I have been thinking more and more about self-care and co-care in the activist movement. I do feminism all day long - in my research work, in my activism (when I have time - oh, irony!), in my read...
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#feministslives: Syrian feminists: ‘This is the chance the war gave us – to empower women’
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 22, 2017Activists in Syria are challenging patriarchal norms, to ensure they have a place not just at the negotiating table, but in rebuilding the country after the war In the early, heady days of the Syri...
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#feministslives: Syrian feminists: ‘This is the chance the war gave us – to empower women’
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 4, 2017Activists in Syria are challenging patriarchal norms, to ensure they have a place not just at the negotiating table, but in rebuilding the country after the war In the early, heady days of the Syri...
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#vivelefeminism: prayer and protest: Mormon women join the Trump resistance.
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / September 26, 2017Mullins Glenn has inadvertently become the face of an unprecedented political movement among Mormon women. It started the week after Trump’s inauguration, when she and a group of writer friends were...
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#vivelafeminism: The feminist army leading the fight against ISIS – @redpeppermag
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / August 2, 2017What 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...
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#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy / May 6, 2017We're living dystopia but by gods, we got game. From bitch email dispatch: Brown Girls appeared onscreen. [OpenTV] The newly-announced Poetry Coalition gathered to defend the value of poetr...
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#feminismisdead: Feminism: an excuse to exploit women? – @PatriarchTree
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / April 21, 2017These 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 cle...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism in the age of Trump – @wync
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 18, 2017#vivelafeminism: Feminism in the age of Trump - @wync: ‘On this episode of Indivisible, we’re talking about feminism in the age of Trump. Are we all seeing politics and life through the lens of ge...
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#vivelafeminism: How Romania’s feminists are fighting back
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 16, 2017Abortion 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 ab...
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#todayin: fighting back: from pink collars to pink hats: working-class feminism and the resistance
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #quickhits / April 5, 2017Tightly gripping a “Firefighters for Women’s Rights and Equality” banner at the Women’s March on Washington, a group of women who had once made history as New York City’s first female firefigh...
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#picturethis: Overcoming anger through street art:
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / March 29, 2017An artist known as ‘Miss Me’ has used artful vandalism to reclaim female power — and in the process, her own life. Before it happened, Miss Me had been living a “normal life,” she says. Everything ...
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#vivelafeminism: Turkish women rising
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017Turkish women risingThe tweet translates: The Assembly is reflected in the will of the people against the will of the people, you cannot present the Bill!!From @ms-magazine-blog (x): Led by a doctor, ...
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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: 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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#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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#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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#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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