Latest Fem/Gender

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  Blain: “Silence is not an option”: Black women make history

  Inerview on the vital role of Black women leaders in the success of Black political movements in modern US history
• Dirik: Unbowed

  Turkey is bent on extinguishing a beacon of women’s liberation in northern Syria. But the women of Rojava are not giving up
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  Smith: The Fight to Protect Abortion Access Amid the Pandemic

  “The governor and attorney general’s ban put Texas patients in heart-breaking situations — it was politics at its worst.”
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  Azeez: Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava

  Democratic confederalism, the ideological framework organizing society in Rojava, outlines the features of a post-revolutionary justice system
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  Cohn: The Supreme Court Is About to Make Seismic Rulings on Reproductive Rights

  The rights of women to terminate their pregnancies and to receive free contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are on the chopping block
• Paley: Women rise against violence in Ecuador

  The pandemic has pushed women in Ecuador to mobilize their networks for the purposes of mutual aid. 
• Dolan: Hawaii Considers an Explicitly Feminist Plan for COVID-Era Economic Recovery

  “The road to economic recovery should not be across women’s backs,” reads the first sentence of Hawaii’s Feminist Economic Recovery Plan
• Castro Espín: Sexual rights and emancipation in Cuba

  The 1959 revolution launched a project of social justice and equity, an event that would change policies regarding gender and sexualities, among profound, radical transformations in the nation and its culture
• Alstott: Mothering in a Pandemic

  Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.
• Herrera: In Argentina, the Next Generation Finds Its Voice

  Ofelia Fernández is the youngest lawmaker in Latin America. Despite online hate, she's leading the youth movement for the political rights of women.
• Paley: Feminists build power in Uruguay

  Source: Toward Freedom 03 08 2020 / Montevideo, Uruguay: Poster...
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  Swain: Tara Reade’s Allegations Is Latest Chapter of America’s Accountability Problem

  Accountability must be viewed as a feminist issue, especially in a nation that wove oppression into every fiber of its flag
• Collectives of Uruguay: Uruguay: May First Feminist Manifesto

  The exit from this crisis must be feminist, migrant, plurinational, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-prison, anti-capitalist, anti-extractivist and anti-fascist
• Reichert: ‘We Don’t Just Interview People Once’

  A discussion with documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, whose work chronicles labor, women, and the American left, and who won an Oscar this year for ‘American Factory’
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  Lennard: Domestic Violence Is on the Rise With Coronavirus Lockdown

  The Responses Are Missing the Point
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  Lindeen: 100 Years Later: The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same

  One hundred years ago white women in the United States achieved suffrage, but women of color were largely left out. Today, many poor women around the globe are disenfranchised and disempowered
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  Glick: Camus’ Plague, and Our Own

  There are certainly plenty of people whose actions during this pandemic have been despicable. But they are vastly outnumbered by those who, during this difficult time, are performing admirably, some heroically
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  Gordon: The Future May Be Female

  But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal
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  Brown: “Stay Home and Have the Baby”

  Texas and Ohio have ordered a stop to abortions, saying they’re not essential medical services. Other states will follow. Right-wing forces are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down dramatically on abortion rights. We can’t let them
• Feminista 8M: “Feminist emergency plan in the face of the Coronavirus crisis” released in Chile

  Faced with the emergency the Coronavirus presents to our lives, a feminist emergency plan is –necessarily– one that prioritizes health, life and care above corporate profits

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