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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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#womenslives: Mexico City’s metro’s ‘penis seat’
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / March 31, 2017When a new style of seat suddenly appeared on Mexico City’s metro system, it was labelled as inappropriate, uncomfortable, humiliating and embarrassing. It was supposed to be. The seat, moul...
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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: 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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#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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#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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#vivelafeminism: #shepersisted: we persist, we resist and we win – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 22, 2017The sexism that our generation has largely faced has not really been the overt, outlandish sexism our mothers and grandmothers protested decades ago. We mostly only see that sexism in films, or read a...
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#vivelafeminism: Marching on for women’s rights and climate justice #WomensMarch – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 22, 2017Back in 1978, I was a part of history when I joined feminists in Washington in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. At the time, our march—with 100,000 protesters—was the biggest women’s march ever....
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#vivelafeminism: Intergenerational resistance: “This isn’t any worse, it’s just your turn.” – @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 20, 2017My grandmother turned 75 this weekend. I wished her a happy birthday over the phone as she sat in her kitchen in Miami, the rest of my family scream-talking in the background. As is the case with gran...
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