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#guestpost: My journey with and guide to intersectional feminism, by @kateharveston

September 20, 2017 Leave a comment

The 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 idea of “white feminism,” a label that’s also been thrown around a lot recently. The term “white feminism” refers to any brand of feminism that only focuses its efforts on the […]

#vivelafeminism: The feminist army leading the fight against ISIS – @redpeppermag

August 2, 2017

What 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 worldview that turns ISIS’s death ideology on its head. Arîn Mîrkan, a young, revolutionary Kurdish woman, would become the symbol of Kobane’s victory. A fighter […]

#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days

May 6, 2017

We’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 poetry and poets to American culture. [Academy of American Poets] NASA and the National Parks Service went rogue. [NPR] Jack Jones Literary Arts combatted the whiteness and elitism of the writers retreat by announcing their own […]

#vivelafeminism: going on the offensive for abortion rights – @msmagazine

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 Reproductive Rights also told Salon, “where advocates are using the bill to expose the very real harms caused by abortion restrictions in their state. “The energy red-state abortion rights activists are […]

#vivelafeminism: a movement, not a moment: inside the outrage – @msmagazine

April 21, 2017

The 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 skyrocketed. Funk became an official partner of the Women’s March, and decided her pop-up operation would remain open indefinitely. She hired Maldonado, who had never been a creative director, […]

#vivelafeminism: being a libertarian and a feminist

April 18, 2017

Libertarians 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 at the core of libertarian philosophy, while collectivist ideologies go against many of the tenants of libertarianism – the belief that the government should not outlaw “hate speech” for […]

#vivelafeminism: Feminism in the age of Trump – @wync

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 gender more than before the election? Collier Meyerson from The Nation and Soraya Chemaly from the Women’s Media Center join hosts Kai Wright and Anne McElvoy to talk […]

#vivelafeminism: Feminism around the world: economist analyzes global gender gap in the workplace despite feminist gains – @themarysue

March 27, 2017

Less 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 only 40% female, and that’s only a 1% improvement since 1990. Depending on what industries you’re looking at, the disparity is even more grim. According to Kenny, […]

#vivelafeminism: Turkish women rising

March 26, 2017

Turkish women rising The 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, the We Will Stop Women’s Murders platform has grown since 2009 into a sprawling network of women nationwide, who often respond within hours to reports of […]

#vivelafeminism: Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism

March 26, 2017

On 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 asked of men – takes on a particular meanness when considered in relation to maternity. If feminism is to be, not the liberation of women, but the rejection of gender roles […]

#vivelafeminism: The failure of “choice feminism” – @jacobinmag

March 23, 2017

But 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 it — is seen by many as a move in the wrong direction. Jessa Crispin’s new book Why I Am Not a Feminist: A […]

#vivelafeminism: The obvious challenge is how to channel this explosion of popular feminist energy

March 22, 2017

The 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-limiting, drawing its life force from women’s deep, almost instinctive familiarity with outsiderness: the same “exteriority” to power (stemming from both outer hostility and inner reluctance) that Beard sees […]

#vivelafeminism: Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do? @zoesqwilliams

March 16, 2017

These 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 principle of feminism being that if you can work full-time and still not afford to feed your children, the fault lies not with you but with a society […]

#vivelafeminism: No more cupcakes! A call to action on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2017

What 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 provisions, misogyny, or pervasive “boys club” practices of exclusion and discrimination, women are offered a pile of cupcakes (best served with a side of condescension from their resident […]

#vivelafeminism: America is in crisis—and women of color are at war – @msmagazine #resist

March 7, 2017

Molly Adams One 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 suffer from grave fertility challenges. Once she reached three months in her pregnancy, she began to experience traumatic events. Her body was no longer strong […]

#vivelafeminism: A new era of feminist activism – @msmagazine #weresist

March 3, 2017

Molly 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 calls to her state and federal representatives and has volunteered to do research for SwingLeft on Minnesota’s second district. She is even considering running for state or federal […]

#vivelafeminism: Feminism for the 99% – @jacobinmag

March 2, 2017

Clinton’s feminism was intensely individual: one could never stop hearing a silent “it’s my turn” in every public speech. Deeply neoliberal, her feminism was hopelessly attached to a political world that recedes ever more into the past: the America of Ronald Reagan and the New Democrats. All political environments develop and change over time, making positions like corporate feminism entirely […]

#vivelafeminism: Finding your voice in a pussy grabbing world – @bellejarteam

February 24, 2017

I 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 world. But the thing is, being a woman can feel dangerous wherever you are and violence against women happens in places as close as the […]

#vivelafeminism: #shepersisted: we persist, we resist and we win – @msmagazine

February 22, 2017

The 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 about it or occasionally glimpse it in our older relatives who “don’t know any better.” But we are still surrounded by it—it just hides in subtly, in […]

#vivelafeminism: Marching on for women’s rights and climate justice #WomensMarch – @msmagazine

February 22, 2017

Back 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. The numbers at Saturday’s protests far exceeded any marches in the history of the United States—and inspired hope for a future that looks grim. Like the […]

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