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#research: In 2012, UK activist Laura Bates set up the Everyday Sexism Project
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 8, 2017In 2012, UK activist Laura Bates set up the Everyday Sexism Project to raise awareness of the banality of sexist practices facing girls and women, from schools and streets t...
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#womenslives: Online harassment, young women (and the academy)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / February 7, 2017Online harassment, young women (and the academy) - @socimaginationThe Pew study found the distribution of these experiences to be structured by gender and age. Young adults (18-29) as a whole are more...
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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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#todayin: religion: feminists should be graceful (and they’re not, apparently)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #quickhits / February 6, 2017First up: The graceful feminism of Mary Tyler Moore(National Catholic Register)The show’s character, Mary Richards, was a 30-year old career woman at a Minneapolis TV news station. She hoped for marri...
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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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#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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#guestpost: #research: More on the underrepresentation of women in psychology journals
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #sexism, #guestposts / January 30, 2017(Posted with permission from the author from the FWSA blog.) In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I...
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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: 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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