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This week’s news cycle dominated by earth-shattering revelation that Hillary Clinton is made of flesh and blood – @ESTBLSHMNT

This week’s news cycle was dominated by the apparently earth-shattering revelation that Hillary Clinton is made of flesh and blood. That’s right: Her immune system sometimes gets overtaxed, and stan...

“The act of trusting women shouldn’t be a radical act” @JessicaValenti

The notion that women are fundamentally untrustworthy snakes through almost every area of our lives. Managers distrust women who ask for flextime; women who show anger are less trusted than their male...

“When women remain below 20% of all congressional officeholders, single-digit gains are slow way to parity” – @kdittmar/ @msmagazine

Ceilings are starting to crack a little bit (let's not pretend that they're smashing all over the place) but women's representation on the front benches, anywhere, is still disproportionately small. T...

▶ Most radical speech at DNC: Ilyse Hogue telling her abortion story

Excerpts: "I made the decision that was best for me  —  to have an abortion  —  and was able to get compassionate care at a clinic in my own community," Hogue said. "Now, years later, my husband an...

Hillary Clinton and misogynistic feminism

Image: Hillary Clinton Has Big Hands by Anthony Freda. From counterpunch.org: The image depicts the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with a man’s body with big hands and a large genital.  It...

“To conservatives she is a radical left-wing insurgent” – Michael Arnovitz/ medium

Hillary, that is. Who else, these days. “In the course of a single conversation, I have been assured that Hillary is cunning and manipulative but also crass, clueless, and stunningly impolitic; that ...

Study: partisanship and political animosity: easier to befriend neighbour with same political affiliation

Via pewresearch: study: Partisanship and political animosity: easier to befriend neighbour with same political affiliation (emphasis added). (On this: try being in post-Brexit Britain right now. We...

“Many feminists believe progress made by individual women, particularly wealthy white women, is progress for us all. It’s not.” – @word_women

I paraphrased the title because of space. Here is the quote in full: "Many who identify themselves as feminist seem to believe that any progress made by an individual woman, particularly a wealthy whi...

#inhaste: here’s why progressives shouldn’t get too excited about Clinton’s nomination #Election2016

@mic.com: Hillary Clinton has emerged as the democratic party's presumptive nominee for president. It is a feat for girls and women, and for all people committed to shaking up a political system that ...

“Political empowerment and representation go hand in hand, and not just in the context of gender” @FWSAuk

By Emma Szewczak-Harris @FWSAuk: Representation matters; the world over, but especially in US politics. Why? For a start, women make up only 19.4% of the US congress. This places the US, according to...

“Mr. Trump, today my son asked me if he could deny that I am Muslim”

Dear Mr. Trump: I am an American Muslim - Shareen Mansfield on @rolereboot I am the girl who grew into a woman who had to bury her identity to pass through life without judgement. Dear Mr. Trump: I...

From @pewresearch: Persistent divides between, within, the two parties on abortion (US)

  @pewresearch: As Americans await a decision in the Supreme Court’s first abortion case in years, a slim majority (56%) now think abortion should be legal in all or most cases. A...

“Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no…”

x-posted from tumblr.feimineach: “Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress....

No GOP candidate will be ‘good for women’ – @rhrealitycheck

[T]he truth is that as bad as Donald Trump is on women’s issues, his positions are in line with the Republican Party as a whole, including the other GOP candidates. It’s just that Trump’s brand of bra...

#inhaste: Evangelicals’ support of Trump shouldn’t come as a surprise

From the LAtimes: "So all that head-scratching isn't necessary; it should come as little surprise that the candidate of choice for evangelicals so far in this 2016 election season is a twice-divorced,...

research: “Trump embodies the classic authoritarian leadership style: simple, powerful, and punitive”  – @amandataub

Here's a very detailed essay on Vox which explores why and how authoritarianism is popular in the US and how it's benefiting the likes of Trump in the run-up to the US election. The main message is th...

Gloria Steinem, socialism and feminism

In 1905, Eugene V. Debs, the popular labor activist and Socialist Party leader, had a speaking engagement in Rochester, New York and went to visit the aging women’s rights pioneer Susan B. Anthony at ...

#todayin: politics: younger women not voting for Hillary because she killed feminism – @nickgillespie

Why aren't women en masse—or at least in Democratic primaries and polls—flocking in support of the first female president in U.S. history? Is it that "intersectionality" (the idea that race, class, an...

“[Feminism] is not giving unquestioning aid to women qua women” – @emilylhauser

To be clear: I'm a Democrat — dyed-in-the-wool, cradle-to-grave. Come November, I'll do what I always do: I'll vote (because you should always vote), and I'll vote for the Democrat. I can't even prete...

“It’s an outdated (and establishment) way of thinking about gender politics” – @RanaForoohar

This election cycle’s chief theme has been the triumph of outsiders and outsider views over the establishment. High-profile Hillary Clinton supporters, including feminist icon Gloria Steinem and forme...