tag: US politics (feimineach)

#maleficentmisogyny: women as incubators: How US law dehumanizes pregnant women -@broadly

June 1, 2017

Today, many American women find themselves the subject of intense surveillance during pregnancy. Even as pregnant women happily anticipate the birth of a healthy child, families, friends, health care providers, and government officials often scrutinize their actions for behavior that could potentially risk the health of the developing fetus. Increasingly, widely held beliefs about how the “good” pregnant woman should […]

#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days

May 6, 2017

We’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 poetry and poets to American culture. [Academy of American Poets] NASA and the National Parks Service went rogue. [NPR] Jack Jones Literary Arts combatted the whiteness and elitism of the writers retreat by announcing their own […]

#research: bad chart thursday: the unbearable whiteness of being a Trump voter – @skepchicks

April 20, 2017

Well, okay, the chart does have one problem. The far-left column does not clearly label what the percentages mean. Those are each the percentage of total voters each group represents. This is particularly useful in understanding that, say, 25% of Latina voters voting for Trump only comes out to about 1.5 percentage points of Trump’s total 46.21 (total as of […]

#vivelafeminism: Feminism in the age of Trump – @wync

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 gender more than before the election? Collier Meyerson from The Nation and Soraya Chemaly from the Women’s Media Center join hosts Kai Wright and Anne McElvoy to talk […]

#todayin: misogyny (and politics): Vulgar misogyny didn’t harm Donald Trump – it helped him

April 6, 2017

But six months on, and liberals still don’t get why the “pussy” moment was not instrumental in raising questions about Trump. In fact it had the opposite effect. It galvanised his support. It boosted his campaign. It played well to the base, as they like to say. Just as, in the face of all the current investigations, the men-only White […]

#todayin: fighting back: from pink collars to pink hats: working-class feminism and the resistance

April 5, 2017

Tightly 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 firefighters roared up Independence Avenue. There, they joined a new generation of labor activists: teachers, nurses, government workers, restaurant servers, home health-care aides, communications workers, and thousands of other […]

#womenslives: The worst ‘alternative facts’ about abortion – @rewire_news

April 2, 2017

Abortion Is Dangerous for Women’s Health The Reality: Evidence suggests a much different world-view from the fake narrative that abortion is medically harmful. Data show that the overall complication rate of abortion is lower than the complication rate for wisdom tooth removals and tonsillectomies, according to Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a research center at the University of California, […]

#womenslives: republican politician says women should be forced to carry dead fetuses to term – @broadly

April 1, 2017

Earlier this week, during a committee hearing for an abortion ban that is being proposed in Ohio, a Republican state representative, Shannon Lundgren, mounted a troubling defense of her hardline stance that a woman should not be able to terminate her pregnancy after 20 weeks. The anti-abortion politician suggested that women who miscarry after 20 weeks of pregnancy should carry […]

#picturethis: women are not buying what “The Donald” is selling (BBC).

March 31, 2017

#picturethis: women are not buying what “The Donald” is selling (BBC).

#vivelafeminism: America is in crisis—and women of color are at war – @msmagazine #resist

March 7, 2017

Molly Adams One 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 suffer from grave fertility challenges. Once she reached three months in her pregnancy, she began to experience traumatic events. Her body was no longer strong […]

#vivelafeminism: A new era of feminist activism – @msmagazine #weresist

March 3, 2017

Molly 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 calls to her state and federal representatives and has volunteered to do research for SwingLeft on Minnesota’s second district. She is even considering running for state or federal […]

#research: Nearly nine-in-ten Americans say open and fair elections are important to democracy in the U.S

March 3, 2017

pewresearch: Nearly nine-in-ten Americans say open and fair elections are important to democracy in the U.S., while large shares say the same about a system of checks and balances and the right to nonviolent protest. The sharpest partisan disagreement is over the importance of the freedom of news organizations to criticize political leaders.

#vivelafeminism: Finding your voice in a pussy grabbing world – @bellejarteam

February 24, 2017

I 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 world. But the thing is, being a woman can feel dangerous wherever you are and violence against women happens in places as close as the […]

#vivelafeminism: #shepersisted: we persist, we resist and we win – @msmagazine

February 22, 2017

The 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 about it or occasionally glimpse it in our older relatives who “don’t know any better.” But we are still surrounded by it—it just hides in subtly, in […]

#vivelafeminism: Marching on for women’s rights and climate justice #WomensMarch – @msmagazine

February 22, 2017

Back 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. The numbers at Saturday’s protests far exceeded any marches in the history of the United States—and inspired hope for a future that looks grim. Like the […]

#vivelafeminism: Intergenerational resistance: “This isn’t any worse, it’s just your turn.” – @bitchmedia

February 20, 2017

My 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 grandmothers, the conversation turned back to me very quickly. She had heard I’d been going to protests over the past few years and […]

#vivelafeminism: Marching together #WomensMarch – @msmagazine

February 15, 2017

The 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 never a chance to sit. And as to marching, well, it might have been shuffling, but it more likely appeared as a crowded form of standing. […]

#vivelafeminism: The #WomensMarch was as educational as it was empowering – @msmagazine

February 10, 2017

Lizette is a very special young woman. When she was a sophomore in high school, she approached me about starting an after-school group for young feminists. She needed a sponsor for the group, and I agreed. Even though she graduated in 2014, our group still meets, and we are growing every year. Needless to say, I was thrilled to share […]

#research: Pussyhat power – the feminist protesters crafting resistance to Trump and his supporters – @ConversationUK

February 1, 2017

Stitch ‘n’ Bitch Third-wave feminist and Bust Magazine editor Debbie Stoller led this subversive knitting trend, with the publication of her Stitch ‘n’ Bitch knitting manual, calling for a new generation of knitters to “take back the knit”. There has been considerable scholarly attention to this type of contemporary knitting with feminist authors exploring knitting’s “craftivism” through practices like yarn […]

#vivelafeminism: #WomensMarch through the eyes of girl activists – @msmagazine

February 1, 2017

On Saturday, January 21, an estimated five million people marched worldwide to support girls’ rights and women’s rights in light of the regressive and dangerous language, planned policies, and proposed nominees for this new administration under Donald Trump. People from all walks of life, identities, and experiences attended with their action-provoking posters and pink “pussyhats” to stand up against the […]

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