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#feministslives: Syrian feminists: ‘This is the chance the war gave us – to empower women’
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 4, 2017Activists in Syria are challenging patriarchal norms, to ensure they have a place not just at the negotiating table, but in rebuilding the country after the war In the early, heady days of the Syri...
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#picturethis: The oldest women’s motorcycle clubs is strictly feminine and also badass – @timeline
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / September 29, 2017Dot Robinson soldiered through 500 miles of endurance tests. She forded rivers, waded through sand, scrambled up rutted mountainsides — all on a motorcycle. By the end of two days, she became the fi...
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#research: #womensstories: when the personal becomes political: exploring the power of abortion storytelling – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #law, #womensstories, #quickhits, #women / September 28, 2017Kate Cockrill and her research parter Antonio Biggs wanted to know if storytelling could help reduce the stigma around abortion. Aware of the harsh judgement often associated with abortion and other...
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#womenslives: #research: “When Men Murder Women” – @MSMagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / September 27, 2017Toxic masculinity dictates that men dominate and control women in ways that often involve violence. This virulent form of social control constructs manhood and masculinity as inextricably tied to sh...
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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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#capitalismwilleatitself: The personal is now commercial – popular feminism online – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #quickhits / September 7, 2017The relationship of feminism to the beauty industry and women’s magazines, in other words, has a complex history. Still, as I listened to Elaine Welteroth, the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, speak t...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 7, 2017I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she didn’t look at m...
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#guestpost: Barbie lawyer: my thoughts on Eboni Williams’ “Dress for Success” advice – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / September 7, 2017Eboni Williams was recently featured in the news due to her focus on appearance to get results. Some of what she says is fairly decent advice. Other pieces of her advice, particularly her focus on "pr...
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#guestpost: Debunking the myths: the #paygap is very real, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #guestposts / August 21, 2017People should earn what they deserve. It's a simple concept. It seems fair that if a white male makes a certain amount doing a given job, their counterpart with the same job and level of qualificati...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / August 11, 2017#womenslives: I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she di...
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#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #womenslives, #quickhits, #sexism / August 9, 2017#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern: Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an ina...
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#womenslives: “As strange as it sounds, I didn’t know right away when I was raped.”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / August 9, 2017#womenslives: As strange as it sounds, I didn’t know right away when I was raped. I knew that I felt sick to my stomach every time I thought about his hands or heard his name, but for weeks I thought ...
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“Some people ask, ‘Why the word feminist?”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #quickhits / August 5, 2017Some people ask, ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?’ Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in ...
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“The problem lies in what this neoliberal feminism skims over…”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #patriarchy, #quickhits / August 5, 2017The problem lies in what this neoliberal feminism skims over, and the behaviours it promotes as a result of these omissions. It focuses on equality before the law, with both Women Who Work and Lean In...
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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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#womenslives: Women on the Run – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / July 4, 2017“Women on the run” is how the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees describes the population of Central American mothers (and children) at the U.S. / Mexico border. In a recently issued report, UNHCR ...
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#womenslives: Life under the world’s strictest anti-abortion law, on @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / June 28, 2017A wavy-haired woman with a kind voice speaks into the camera. “I’m going to tell you how to do it.” Behind her, sun shines in Santiago, Chile. Cars honk; big red buses whiz by; men and women amble t...
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#guestpost: advancements in the sex industry that should concern women by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #guestposts / June 24, 2017Guestpost by Kate Harveston, Political Journalist & Blogger. Kate writes at onlyslightlybiased.com and tweets @kateharveston. It seems like there are articles in the news every other day about ch...
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#capitalismwilleatitself: Defanged and sprinkled with glitter, what does modern feminism offer girls today? – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #capitalismwilleatitself, #quickhits / June 2, 2017Today’s girls still grow up surrounded by male contempt. The pornification of mainstream culture, of popular music and videos, and the constant scrutiny of social media sees their sexual objectifica...
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