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#vivelafeminism: Hold the mansplaining: the resistance is being led by women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017The contrast couldn’t have been greater: a soulless inauguration ceremony, full of foreboding and lacking in poetry, followed by an outpouring of spirited protesters, most of them women, into the stre...
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#vivelafeminism: The myth of the well-behaved #WomensMarch – @j_zimms, @newrepublic
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017(One of my favourite pieces about the #WomensMarch so far.)•••The streets of Washington, D.C. were almost entirely unimpeded the day after the Inauguration; the majority of the barriers that had block...
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#vivelafeminism: “I am marching because I am a mother, I am a sister, I am a daughter…” #WhyWeMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017“I am marching because I am a mother, I am a sister, I am a daughter, I am a wife, and I am a survivor. That’s what I am saying if anyone asks me,” I told her. […] The decision to march was not...
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#vivelafeminism: Marching toward equality and justice for all – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 31, 2017We spanned seven continents—seas of women numbering in the millions, impossible to ignore. We showed up in hundreds of U.S. cities, including places like Wichita and Fairbanks. We were 50 people out o...
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#vivelafeminism: Critics couldn’t stomp out female unity at the Women’s March – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 30, 2017The biggest protest in U.S. history took place last weekend, and women made it happen. It was a massive demonstration of female political solidarity and a battle cry against male-supremacist power, em...
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#vivelafeminism: Turning the march into a movement #WhyWeMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 30, 2017First, it was the largest one-day protest in American history. Based on news reports from cities around the country, as many as 4.5 million people took to the streets. From 750,000 people in Washingto...
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#vivelafeminism: The #womenmarch succeeded because it spoke to women’s outrage – @kathapollitt
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 28, 2017The success of the marches should put to rest the critique of “identity politics” as a divisive dead end, although it probably won’t. Because for some the most important question was naturally, what a...
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#vivelafeminism: Women marching worldwide revive a long-sought dream: global feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 27, 2017#WhyWeMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarch: Women’s rights are human rights This diverse coalition came out not just to protest Trump’s agenda but to state that women’s rights are human rights, and that t...
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#vivelafeminism: Irish women are going on strike to #protest the abortion ban (8th March) #repealthe8th
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 26, 2017Women in Ireland are going on strike to protest the country’s abortion ban.Pro-choice women will refuse to attend work on 8 March, as part of direct action to make the government pay attention to grow...
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#vivelafeminism: Gloria Steinem’s Women’s March speech
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 23, 2017[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT9MSGeyHm4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]Gloria Steinem’s Women’s March ...
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#vivelafeminism: ‘This is just the beginning’: women who marched against Trump vow to fight on
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 22, 2017As millions marched in cities across the US in a resounding show of defiance against the inauguration of Donald Trump, protesters vowed that the fight had just begun.Women’s Marches swept from the can...
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#vivelafeminism: Not going back: drawing a line in the sand for our rights – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 6, 2017The policies President-Elect Donald Trump campaigned on, and the platform the Republicans adopted at their convention last July, would turn back the clock on 50 years of progress, not only for women b...
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#vivelafeminism: The definition of feminism and the goal of the Women’s March are actually one and the same
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 4, 2017The definition of feminism and the goal of the Women’s March are actually one and the same: We demand to have the same rights as white men have had since the beginning of our country. We demand equali...
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#picturethis: Women in Poland march. And win.
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #quickhits / October 7, 2016#picturethis: Women in Poland march. And win. Thousands of women went on strike in Poland on Monday to protest the Polish government’s attempt at new legislation that would guarantee a five-year p...
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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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#todayin: labor history: October 4, 1936
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 28, 2015todayinlaborhistory:Today in labor history, October 4, 1936: An estimated crowd of more than 100,000 trade unionists, anti-fascist activists, and local residents barricade streets leading into London’...
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#vivelafeminism: Is feminism in Russia a mortal sin?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 16, 2012“They’re just stupid girls who wanted to gain popularity. Young punk bands can’t be that political, they can’t be that patriotic. If they had had a certain degree of intelligence, they would never hav...
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