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#guestpost: Ireland’s referendum marks substantial progress for women’s reproductive rights #repealthe8th: @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #politics, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #law, #patriarchy, #religion, #women, #guestposts / June 12, 2018As Irish citizens recently voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment and thereby allow legislation for abortion, it earned headlines and worldwide attention during what is being hailed as one of the most i...
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#womenslives: Abortion on demand and without apology – @feministire
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 15, 2017Pro-choicers: does the above sound familiar? If it doesn’t, you need to learn your fucking history. This was a slogan of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that succe...
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#research: medical abortions online safe and effective
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #research, #law, #religion, #quickhits / May 17, 2017[Though still illegal for the women of Ireland.] A study into women who seek abortion pills online in the face of strict laws against terminations has found that almost 95% safely ended their pregn...
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#womenslives: Irish women relieved and grateful after using abortion pills
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #womenslives, #law, #religion, #quickhits / May 17, 2017[Only regret is that they are illegal. NB. Packages are STOPPED going into the Rep. of Ireland.] Women in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland who have obtained abortion pills online in def...
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#vivelafeminism: Irish women are going on strike to #protest the abortion ban (8th March) #repealthe8th
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 26, 2017Women in Ireland are going on strike to protest the country’s abortion ban.Pro-choice women will refuse to attend work on 8 March, as part of direct action to make the government pay attention to grow...
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#saturdaysatire: poll: what are we going to do with these women, at all, at all?
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / December 17, 2016The women in this country, honestly, what are we going to do with them? If they’re not giving out about bodily autonomy, they’re complaining about wage equality or something like that. Don’t they h...
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#womenslives: “I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / November 29, 2016I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home in order to avoid dark streets or alleys. I am a young woman who once mentioned the need for consent to be taught in schools, and was told t...
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#womensstories: Girl power: four Irish women and what feminism means to them
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / August 12, 2016Girl power etc. (Irish Examiner) #womenstories from Ireland. The first excerpt is from Louise O'Neill. Tara Flynn, Andrea Horan, and Sarah Maria Griffin also contribute. (Aside: have you ever seen a l...
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#afeministtakeon: rebellion – @lip_mag
By feimineach / in #afeministtakeon..., #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / July 25, 2016It’s on the list. Rosie Hunt on lipmag:Rebellion is a historical drama that puts women at the centre of the action. The five-part mini series premiered earlier this year, coinciding with the 100...
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#vivelafeminism: “Feminism has certainly undermined men,” she continues
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 1, 2016Both men and women may have suffered as feminism has evolved, she reflects. “Feminism has made us all go out to work and made us earn a living, and the male wage is no longer, because of feminism, ...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell left 15 Moore Street in Dublin
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 27, 2016Fantastic piece. NYtimes (emphasis added):AROUND 12:45 p.m. on April 29, 1916, Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell left 15 Moore Street in Dublin to deliver the surrender message that would end the Easter Risin...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Why, 100 years after the Easter Rising, are Irish women still fighting?
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 27, 2016On the gap between what was promised for women in the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and what emerged then in the Constitution of Ireland. On the guardian (emphasis added).So what happened to the ...
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#womensstories: Abused in the past and abandoned in the present – a Magdalene Laundries survivor
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 25, 2016She remains anonymous by choice. She values her privacy above all. She lives alone and never married. She attends daily Mass. She will never again live in Ireland. She celebrated her 78th birthday rec...
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#todayin: fighting back: Women are being kept out of Irish theatre
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 22, 2016#todayin: fighting back: Women are being kept out of Irish theatre and a group of artists is fighting back (Such a good point about women’s voices and women speaking at all.)From msmagazine: Comedian ...
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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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#womensstories: ‘I had to wait for my baby to die inside me’ (Ireland)
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / November 26, 2015A woman has spoken for the first time about the “five weeks of torture” she went through while waiting for her unborn baby to die because of Ireland’s abortion laws.Claire Cullen-Delsol, 31, a mother ...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Irish suffragettes at war
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 18, 2015Piece on the Irish Times: In the autumn of 1915 the workrooms and shop on Dublin’s Eden Quay where Rosie Hackett and her workmates had sewn and sold shirts and badges for over a year was reorganised. ...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Bridget O’Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger, was interviewed by The Illustrated London News in 1849
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 9, 2015Bridget O'Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger, was interviewed by The Illustrated London News in 1849.The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hu...
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#womensstories: Bridget O’Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / November 8, 2015Bridget O'Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger, was interviewed by The Illustrated London News in 1849.The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Grea...
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#saturdaysatire: Report Confirms Drop In Number Of Women Being Left On The Shelf
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / October 10, 2015NEW figures released today show a significant drop in the amount of women being left on the shelf, with many experts suggesting that if trend continues, the shelf may be completely empty by 2020. The...
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