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#maleficentmisogyny: women as incubators: How US law dehumanizes pregnant women -@broadly
By feimineach / in #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #humanrights, #law, #misogyny, #quickhits, #women / June 1, 2017Today, 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 car...
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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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#research: bad chart thursday: the unbearable whiteness of being a Trump voter – @skepchicks
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 20, 2017Well, 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 partic...
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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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#todayin: misogyny (and politics): Vulgar misogyny didn’t harm Donald Trump – it helped him
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 6, 2017But 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 ...
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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: The worst ‘alternative facts’ about abortion – @rewire_news
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 2, 2017Abortion 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 complicati...
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#womenslives: republican politician says women should be forced to carry dead fetuses to term – @broadly
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 1, 2017Earlier 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 stan...
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#picturethis: women are not buying what “The Donald” is selling (BBC).
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / March 31, 2017[gallery type="slideshow" size="full" link="none" ids="2132565691,2132565692,2132565693,2132565694"] #picturethis: women are not buying what “The Donald” is selling (BBC).
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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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#research: Nearly nine-in-ten Americans say open and fair elections are important to democracy in the U.S
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 3, 2017pewresearch: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 nonv...
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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 #WomensMarch was as educational as it was empowering – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 10, 2017Lizette 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 ag...
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#research: Pussyhat power – the feminist protesters crafting resistance to Trump and his supporters – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 1, 2017Stitch ‘n’ BitchThird-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 generati...
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#vivelafeminism: #WomensMarch through the eyes of girl activists – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 1, 2017On 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 propose...
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