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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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#womenslives: Abortion on demand and without apology – @feministire
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 15, 2017Pro-choicers: does the above sound familiar? If it doesn’t, you need to learn your fucking history. This was a slogan of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that succe...
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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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#guestpost: My journey with and guide to intersectional feminism, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #women, #guestposts / September 20, 2017The topic of intersectional feminism has been in the news a lot lately, especially with the controversy surrounding the Women’s March earlier this year. Intersectional feminism directly contrasts the ...
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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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#vivelafeminism: going on the offensive for abortion rights – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #law / April 26, 2017“We are seeing the Whole Woman’s Health Acts in particular being introduced in some states deeply hostile to reproductive rights,” Amanda Allen, senior state legislative counsel for the Center for R...
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#vivelafeminism: a movement, not a moment: inside the outrage – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 21, 2017The Outrage launched six months ago with a focus on feminism and women’s empowerment. CEO Rebecca Lee Funk sought to blend style and activism. When Donald Trump became president, sales immediately s...
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#vivelafeminism: being a libertarian and a feminist
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 18, 2017Libertarians despise racism and sexism as much as anyone because it is a form of collectivism that strips someone’s individual identity with a set of traits and stereotypes. Rugged individualism is ...
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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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#vivelafeminism: Feminism around the world: economist analyzes global gender gap in the workplace despite feminist gains – @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 27, 2017Less heartening is what happens to those women once they leave school. That’s where the seeds of inequality they’ve experienced all their lives really begin to grow fruit. The labor force worldwide is...
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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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#vivelafeminism: Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017On Mother’s Day, a piece by @glosswitch on feminist and motherhood: @newstatesman:The question “what is a woman?” – that annoying, wheedling, pseudo-intellectual musing, of which there’s no equivalent...
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#vivelafeminism: The failure of “choice feminism” – @jacobinmag
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 23, 2017But this growing strand of feminism — the one that wants to build the foundation of women’s rights on the idea that women are more virtuous humans than men, and that wants to buy t-shirts proclaiming ...
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#vivelafeminism: The obvious challenge is how to channel this explosion of popular feminist energy
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 22, 2017The obvious challenge is how to channel this explosion of popular feminist energy in order to defeat the burgeoning forces of populism decisively. The worry is that feminist protest will be self-limit...
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#vivelafeminism: Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do? @zoesqwilliams
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 16, 2017These cuts are a feminist issue because they hit women disproportionately, and black and ethnic-minority women particularly hard. But this would be a feminist issue whoever bore the brunt of it, one p...
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#vivelafeminism: No more cupcakes! A call to action on International Women’s Day
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 8, 2017What is clear in the standard attempts of workplaces to “celebrate” IWD is that women = frivolity. Rather than using the occasion to address the pay gap, sexual harassment, domestic violence leave pro...
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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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