Latest Fem/Gender

• Manning: Personal reflections from a woman in the extremist underground

  Within the radical right, men have always out-numbered women; I was one of those women for five years of my life
• North: The Drive to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment, Explained

  The resurgence of interest stems from a combination of factors like the Women’s March, the Me Too movement, and the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court even after he was publicly accused of sexual assault
• Okun: A call to men to join Women’s March

  It’s not too late for a Men’s New Year’s Resolution: to show up in even greater numbers at this year’s Women’s March than ever before
• Power: El estado opresor es un macho violador // the oppressive state is a macho rapist

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities
• Dávila: “Un Violador En Tu Camino” and the Virality of Feminist Protest

  How does a song about the ubiquity of sexual and gendered violence perpetrated by the state against women become an earworm?
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  Carrión: Lessons the South has taught me about fighting for reproductive justice

  A reproductive justice framework is integral to address these systemic barriers and reduce health disparities
• Henderson: A Feminist Alternative to Trump’s Chest Beating on Iran

  Foreign policy should prioritize the needs of ordinary civilians and civil society — and wars of choice should always be off the table
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  Street: The Woman-Hater-in-Chief

  It’s quite sick, the way this sexist pig of a U.S. president tweets and talks about women and girls
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  Prashad: The Oppressive State Is a Macho Rapist

  There are a range of reasons why violence against women remains high, and perhaps has inched upwards. These go from entrenched patriarchal ideas to economic vulnerability
• 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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