Latest Fem/Gender

• Conley: ‘Dystopian’

  Reproductive Rights Advocates Decry California Woman's Murder Charge Over Her Stillborn Baby
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  Bookchin: Eyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: women empowerment

  The Rojava revolution is under attack. Debbie Bookchin and Emre Şahin share their thoughts on this unique revolutionary process after recently visiting the region
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  Chávez: Progressive Women Just Launched a Working-Class Version of EMILY’s List

  A coalition of more than three dozen progressive women joined forces to launch an organization dedicated to electing women from working-class and low-income backgrounds to Congress
• Kim: Chile: Neoliberal Anguish Explodes Public Space

  This movement is a struggle to take back our lives from the market and to recover sovereignty over our lives, our bodies, our time, our territories. The feminist dimension of everything is rooted there
• Sosa González: Uruguay: We Don’t Need the Police

  Together, we want to live, to be free, without police. We stand against fear, we reject the proposal to militarize our desires and our collective capacity to look after each other
• Cicerchia: The Abortion Rights Movement Must Rethink Its Strategy

  In the face of an aggressive assault by the right, the abortion rights movement should abandon its defensive stance and advocate fully integrating abortion into the country’s healthcare system
• Wilmot: Imprisoned Ugandan academic urges ‘no revolution without a feminist revolution’

  Stella Nyanzi refuses to let Ugandan women be spectators in the struggle to end a 30-year dictatorship
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  Barber: Abortion rights activists target battleground states ahead of 2020 election

  The group is targeting 5 million voters nationwide, with a focus on nine key states
• Nowell: “Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalizes Abortion

  Oaxaca's monumental decision last week to decriminalize abortion is part of a larger "Green Tide" movement across Latin America
• Alsanah: Palestinian women to march against gender-based violence

  Women across Palestine and the diaspora will stage a march on September 26 to assert that the struggle of women is intrinsic to the broader struggle for the liberation of Palestine
• Weeks: Feminist politics and a case for basic income

  Wages do not compensate workers, and especially women, for most of the work they do. A basic income could change that
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  Baroud: ‘Justice is Indivisible’

  Let the screams for help and pleas for mercy of Israa Ghrayeb be our guide as we fight against injustice in all of its forms and manifestations.
• Goldman, Jane Zelikova: Abortion Bans Based on So-Called “Science” Are Fraudulent

  Our silence in the face of new anti-choice laws across the U.S. is deafening
• Emdon: Numsa strike against sexual harassment

  A ‘powerful moment in labour history’
• Moore: Southern states funnel public money to fake abortion clinics

  14 states send tax dollars to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers", which pose as legitimate medical facilities offering free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds when in fact their true function is to dissuade people from seeking abortion
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  Solnit: In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream

  In so many cases rapists have help in the moment and forever after, and the help is often so powerful, broad, and deep—well, that’s why we call it rape culture
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  Gordon: The Personal Is Still Political

  And It’s Planetary, Too
• Lennard: The Structural #MeToo Victories We Need

  This week in New York, victory took the form of some of the most robust anti-harassment, gender equality legislation to be passed in the country
• Pember: #MeToo in Indian Country

  Sexual harassment in Indian Country is an inconvenient and deeply uncomfortable truth
• Conley: ‘Unconscionable’ Abortion Bans

  "What brings us together is our view that as prosecutors we should not and will not criminalize healthcare decisions such as these."

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