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#guestpost: Ireland’s referendum marks substantial progress for women’s reproductive rights #repealthe8th: @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #politics, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #law, #patriarchy, #religion, #women, #guestposts / June 12, 2018As Irish citizens recently voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment and thereby allow legislation for abortion, it earned headlines and worldwide attention during what is being hailed as one of the most i...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist activists today should still look to ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #quickhits, #women / May 7, 2018The women who wrote the first edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” met at a women’s liberation conference in 1969. They had gathered to discuss the topic of women and their bodies, but it didn’t take...
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#womenslives: The Yellow Wallpaper: a 19th-century short story of nervous exhaustion and the perils of women’s ‘rest cures’ – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 1, 2018The Yellow Wallpaper enlightens the reader on women’s health, motherhood, mental breakdown and its treatment, as well as feminism and gender relations in late 19th-century America. Though many detai...
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#prisonsareafeministissue: inside the fight for menstrual equity in America’s prisons – @feministing
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / February 21, 2018How many pads does a menstruating person deserve? It’s impossible to answer such a personal question. But for the women incarcerated in American prisons, prison administrators decide for them. In m...
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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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#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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#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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#picturethis: 11 powerful feminist messages, written on the bodies fighting for them (HuffPo) (NSFW).
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #picturethis, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy, #quickhits / May 22, 2016By Liora K: liorakphotography.com @HuffPo Liora began the project, titled “Feminism,” in 2012, after she moved to a Republican state for the first time and heard more about proposed reproductive ri...
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YES, WE DO STILL NEED INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #misogyny, #sexism, #thinkyblog / March 10, 2014Over on the quickhits earlier, I posted this link. It was to a piece in the Indy today, entitled, "To those who can’t see the point of International Women’s Day: you are the very reason it exists". We...
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"AFFLUENZA" AND THE CHILDREN OF THE OTHER 99%
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #thinkyblog / December 15, 2013In case any of you, like me, couldn't believe their eyes when they first read this, it is actually all true. Affluenza (the notion that the rich can be forgiven for being feckless and irresponsible be...
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – MUCH DONE, AND SO MUCH LEFT TO DO
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #sexism, #thinkyblog / March 8, 2012On this International Women's Day, Polly Toynbee explains how we are going backwards instead of forwards in our quest for equality. You can thank Dave and his mates for that. Turn back the clocks and...
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BREIVIK’S FAR-RIGHT FRIENDS IN AMERICA
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #humanrights, #religion, #thinkyblog / August 4, 2011If you give Breivik’s 1,500 manifesto a good read (though why would you, I suppose), you’ll see that his political influences (particularly with regard to his hatred of Islam) did not come from Europe...
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CALLING OUT DARFUR IS NOT RACIST
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #humanrights, #women, #thinkyblog / August 12, 2010Violence, rape and little or no education is a fact of life for many women all over the globe. While the feminist movement took off in parts of the Western world, many women are still treated as secon...
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SOUTH AFRICAN RAPE SURVEY
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #humanrights, #women, #thinkyblog / June 18, 2009I don’t think there is one word I could add to this story to make its message any plainer or any more disturbing. These are the cruel realities of life in South Africa. Some key statements: One...
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