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#womenslives: Mexico City’s metro’s ‘penis seat’
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / March 31, 2017When a new style of seat suddenly appeared on Mexico City’s metro system, it was labelled as inappropriate, uncomfortable, humiliating and embarrassing. It was supposed to be. The seat, moul...
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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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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: the women’s protest that sparked the Russian revolution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 15, 2017The first day of the Russian revolution – 8 March (23 February in the old Russian calendar) – was International Women’s Day, an important day in the socialist calendar. By midday of that day in 19...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Remembering the Matchgirls’ Strike – @progressonline
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017The received wisdom is that the heroic London dockers of 1889 led the way towards social justice, greater equality and spurred the foundation of the Labour movement.In fact it was London’s working cla...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #herstory: colorized photos from early suffrage marches bring women’s history to life
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017profeminist: “In 1909, at the original such march, it was for better working conditions. This year, the day will be an occasion for the movement associated with January’s post-Inauguration Women’...
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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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#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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#picturethis: anti-war graffiti
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / February 14, 2017thesociologicalcinema: anti-war graffiti
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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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#vivelafeminism: #WomensMarch needs to care about capitalism (too) – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 6, 2017On January 21st, an estimated 2.9 million people participated in Women’s Marches around the U.S., setting a record for the largest one-day protest in the nation’s history. For many feminists, a public...
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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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#vivelafeminism: Dispatches from outside the #WomensMarch – @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 1, 2017The story of feminism in the United States is largely undocumented. Technology was not yet available to photograph Native women resisting colonialism. And when abolitionist Sojourner Truth escaped sla...
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#vivelafeminism: Follow women of color: lessons from the #WomensMarch on Washington – @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / February 1, 2017Even before the Women’s March on Washington had grown to include every U.S. state, more than 700 cities, and every continent, I knew I had to be there. For me, it was a pilgrimage. It was being a part...
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