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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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#womenslives: “My abortion made me appreciate all that abortion providers do for women” – @broadly
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 13, 2017I was nervous before my abortion. Even though I was confident in my decision to end my pregnancy, and even though I knew I would receive excellent care, I found myself shaking as I climbed onto the ex...
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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: 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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#research: Judith Butler (b. 1956) is a philosopher and theorist
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 25, 2017celebratingamazingwomen:JudithButler (b. 1956) is a philosopher and theorist whohas had a great shaping influence on political philosophy, as well as feminist andqueer theory. She is a Professor of Li...
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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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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Who writes our history? @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / February 20, 2017Who writes our history? @bitchmedia History isn’t static—it’s the stories we tell ourselves about the past. And that story changes depending on who’s doing the telling. On this episode, we explore wh...
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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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#research: The invisible labour of academic feminism – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 17, 2017“You’re not interrupting my real work. You are my real work.”What does all of this mean for the way we think the labour of an academic feminist? If we coalesce the above examples of building students’...
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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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#guestpost: #research: What does the feminisation of psychology look like?
By feimineach / in #academia, #research, #education, #equality, #sexism, #guestposts / February 15, 2017In two previous posts published online at the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Blog (FWSA) (one, two) I discussed women’s status in psychology. First I looked at the underrepresentation of wom...
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#picturethis: anti-war graffiti
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / February 14, 2017thesociologicalcinema: anti-war graffiti
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#research: Possibly the most exhaustive study of “manspreading” ever conducted – @socimages
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 10, 2017[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScoOF2GDFrM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=375]Possibly the most exhaustive study of “mans...
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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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