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#vivelafeminism: How feminists in China are using emoji to avoid censorship
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / April 20, 2018Shortly after the close of this year’s International Women’s Day, China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo shut down Feminist Voices. With 180,000 followers, the group’s social media account was one ...
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#youngfeminists: The young woman taking on women’s rights in Cambodia – @HuffPostUK
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / April 18, 2018She began to read articles and books on feminism and watching videos on You Tube and she started to notice just how much violence and discrimination there is against women in Cambodia. Worst of all,...
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#youngfeminists are leading the fight for black lives in Chicago – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #quickhits / April 12, 2018Founded by 18-year-old Maxine Wint and Natalie Braye and 19-year-old Sophia Byrd and Eva Lewis,Youth for Black Lives has transformed the Black liberation movement in the windy city and beyond. Their...
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#vivelafeminism: The future is female – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 27, 2018A national poll released in January by the Washington Post/ ABC News predicts that women’s strong preference for Democratic over Republican candidates (57-31) in congressional races could play a dec...
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#vivelafeminism: Remembering a turning point for feminism – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 19, 2018No group had ever picketed the White House before, according to Jennifer Krafchik, Acting Director, Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument. Many viewed women picketing during wartime as unp...
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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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#SignedByTrump: ‘Young and beautiful piece of ass’ – Donald Trump (NSFW)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #equality, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism / November 30, 2017[caption id="attachment_2132567890" align="aligncenter" width="900"] © Aria Watson, artist.[/caption] A college freshman's NSFW portrait series features Donald Trump's most enraging comments about wo...
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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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#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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