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#vivelafeminism: Feminism for the 99% – @jacobinmag
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 2, 2017Clinton’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 t...
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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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#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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#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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#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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