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#vivelafeminism: The feminist classroom as ‘safe space’ after Brexit and Trump by @alisonphipps
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 26, 2017aroomofourownfeministnetwork:The feminist classroom as ‘safe space’ after Brexit and Trump by @alisonphippsSo it’s happened. Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States. He ran on a white sup...
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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: No, feminism isn’t over, but it needs to change – @addiestan
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 18, 2017That’s all well and good, but framing alone won’t fix the problem. The problem is structural, both in the make-up of feminist leadership, and in the dominance of men as the leaders funders turn to whe...
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#vivelafeminism: What is feminism in the age of Trump? – @melissagira on @TheWeek
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 10, 2017What was “white feminism” — if it was a phenomenon divorced from what’s been lately dubbed “mainstream feminism,” or previously “liberal feminism,” or sometim...
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#vivelafeminism: A feminist resolution for 2017: making marginalized voices your new normal – @fudgeposner on @feministing
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 10, 2017Here are five resolutions to get you started on how to make women’s voices the norm, rather than the aberration or the token, in your home or community in 2017:1. Amplify female journalism. The tirade...
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#vivelafeminism: The alt-right drove feminist writer Lindy West off Twitter. That has real-world political implications. – @ajaromano on @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 7, 2017Rather, her breaking point — what made her feel she could no longer participate in the platform’s “profoundly broken culture” — was that Twitter has failed to acknowledge and deal with the alt-right’s...
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#vivelafeminism: What Lena Dunham’s abortion comments tell us about feminism in 2016 – @TheDebrief
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 6, 2017My objection is not that she trivialised the reality and procedure of abortion. If anything, it would be useful to have more public acknowledgement of abortion as a usually minor and minimally traumat...
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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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#vivelafeminism: Feminism lost, now what? @susanchira on @nytimes #juxtaposition
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 31, 2016Feminism, which at its heart should mean opportunities for women in every sphere, has also come to be seen as a proxy for liberalism, alienating conservatives.@susanchira on @nytimes: This was suppose...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism didn’t lose in 2016 – @emilycrockett on @voxdotcom #juxtaposition
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 31, 2016[Goldberg] fears the dawn of an era in which men who have been “stewing about political correctness” can start mistreating women with even more impunity.@emilycrockett on @voxdotcom: Donald Trump’s pr...
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#vivelafeminism: Is modern feminism eating itself?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 23, 2016Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, calls this “marketplace feminism” - a brand of feminism with ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism evolved: Intersectionality in the Trump era – @sarahremywrites, @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 22, 2016Intersectional feminism is making sure no one is left behind.Intersectional feminism acknowledges that every woman’s experience with oppression is both varied and valid.In the Trump era, intersectiona...
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#vivelafeminism: #womenslives: being a muslim feminist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / December 20, 2016My lecturer, once, singled me out in class as being “oppressed” when there was a discussion about how people view things differently. At that time, I was surprised. Admittedly, I was sporting a baggy ...
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#vivelafeminism: “Young” feminists, don’t toss out the “old” ones; we’re on the same side – @the_broad_side
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 19, 2016One article in particular that I found especially worrisome goes so far as to lump all my second wave sisters and me (whether we are baby boomers or Gen X-ers or on the cusp of both) into the same cat...
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#vivelafeminism: How to survive an [the] anti-feminist backlash – @sadydoyle on @thenation
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 14, 2016[…] Oh yeah, and Trump.Granted, Trump’s more-than-flirtation with fascism will make this particular cycle worse. Some, like journalist and scholar of authoritarian regimes Sarah Kendzior, see n...
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#vivelafeminism: The revolution will be intersectional – @Katie_Speak on @rewire_news
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 14, 2016“The seeds have been planted by a thousand outrages, and that they would sprout has always been a question of when, not if,” Jaffe writes. “It is not just inequality in income or wealth that is settin...
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#vivelafeminism: Evolving feminism(s): elitism and intersectionality – @aijenpoo on @washingtonpost
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 13, 2016The domestic workers movement has created a home for some of the most isolated and vulnerable working women in our economy, offering a platform to change the laws and culture that undervalue their con...
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#vivelafeminism: Women don’t want happiness; they want equality (not necc. mutually exclusive of course but not the same) – @washingtonpost
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 8, 2016[…] In their paper “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers may rule out work-family conflict as a source of women’s growing unhappiness, but I’m not sur...
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