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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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#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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#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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#vivelafeminism: Marching together #WomensMarch – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 15, 2017The first overlapping sensation is physical memory. After the Women’s March in New York, I was mostly aware of how much my feet hurt. Pressed tightly against other bodies for five hours, there was nev...
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#vivelafeminism: The myth of the well-behaved #WomensMarch – @j_zimms, @newrepublic
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017(One of my favourite pieces about the #WomensMarch so far.)•••The streets of Washington, D.C. were almost entirely unimpeded the day after the Inauguration; the majority of the barriers that had block...
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#vivelafeminism: “I am marching because I am a mother, I am a sister, I am a daughter…” #WhyWeMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017“I am marching because I am a mother, I am a sister, I am a daughter, I am a wife, and I am a survivor. That’s what I am saying if anyone asks me,” I told her. […] The decision to march was not...
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#vivelafeminism: Marching toward equality and justice for all – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017We spanned seven continents—seas of women numbering in the millions, impossible to ignore. We showed up in hundreds of U.S. cities, including places like Wichita and Fairbanks. We were 50 people out o...
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#vivelafeminism: Critics couldn’t stomp out female unity at the Women’s March – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 30, 2017The biggest protest in U.S. history took place last weekend, and women made it happen. It was a massive demonstration of female political solidarity and a battle cry against male-supremacist power, em...
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#vivelafeminism: Turning the march into a movement #WhyWeMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 30, 2017First, it was the largest one-day protest in American history. Based on news reports from cities around the country, as many as 4.5 million people took to the streets. From 750,000 people in Washingto...
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#vivelafeminism: The #womenmarch succeeded because it spoke to women’s outrage – @kathapollitt
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 28, 2017The success of the marches should put to rest the critique of “identity politics” as a divisive dead end, although it probably won’t. Because for some the most important question was naturally, what a...
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#vivelafeminism: Women marching worldwide revive a long-sought dream: global feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 27, 2017#WhyWeMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarch: Women’s rights are human rights This diverse coalition came out not just to protest Trump’s agenda but to state that women’s rights are human rights, and that t...
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#vivelafeminism: The feminist classroom as ‘safe space’ after Brexit and Trump by @alisonphipps
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 26, 2017aroomofourownfeministnetwork:The feminist classroom as ‘safe space’ after Brexit and Trump by @alisonphippsSo it’s happened. Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States. He ran on a white sup...
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#vivelafeminism: Gloria Steinem’s Women’s March speech
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 23, 2017[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT9MSGeyHm4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]Gloria Steinem’s Women’s March ...
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#vivelafeminism: ‘This is just the beginning’: women who marched against Trump vow to fight on
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 22, 2017As millions marched in cities across the US in a resounding show of defiance against the inauguration of Donald Trump, protesters vowed that the fight had just begun.Women’s Marches swept from the can...
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#vivelafeminism: No, feminism isn’t over, but it needs to change – @addiestan
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 18, 2017That’s all well and good, but framing alone won’t fix the problem. The problem is structural, both in the make-up of feminist leadership, and in the dominance of men as the leaders funders turn to whe...
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