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• Sarkar: ‘Movement missing voices of Dalit, Adivasi women’

  Interview on her list, the ascension of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and accusations about the Indian newsroom
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  Raina: The #MeToo Movement Is a Step Towards Gender Equality

  The movement, much like a genie, is now squarely out of the bottle and slated to drive other progressive movements across the polity, as well as cumulatively oblige the State to yield space to more assertively democratic forms of social life, coterminous with more responsive State initiatives, willy-nilly
• Kauffman: How the Women’s March gave us our best grounds for hope

  All of these women and girls were finding their voice by making signs and coming together to literally enact community in the streets
• Federici: In the Kitchens of the Metropolis

  Excerpt from the new book Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation, edited by Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski
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  Dreier: The #MeToo Movement’s Roots in Women Workers’ Rights

  An unsung shero of the early 20th century, Rose Schneiderman organized women to fight for laws to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace
• Chesler: Anita, Christine, and Me

  The Media’s Moving On, But I’m Not
• Dimock: Symmetry in Kavanaugh’s Testimonies on Torture and Sexual Misconduct

  Both perpetrate a formally sanctioned illicit unchecked violence exercised without accountability against devalued, defenseless persons.
• Koehler: From Carswell to Kavanuagh

  Kavanaugh doesn’t belong on the nation’s highest court because what he stands for is too small, too arrogant, too buried in prejudice and the devaluation of many lives
• Marcotte: Why Republican Women Will Stick with Kavanaugh

  Gender equality is a partisan issue: Most Republican women are just as sexist as Republican men
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  Flanders: It’s Time to Call #TimesUp on Standing Alone

  It's time to call #TimesUp on anyone standing solo against power
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  Feffer: #MeToo Goes Global

  The U.S. isn't the only country where women are lining up to burn down the (frat) house
• Lennard: McDonald’s Workers Striking Against Sexual Harassment

  Tying #MeToo to Their Labor Struggle
• Millhiser: Facebook Suppressed Kavanaugh Story on Opposition to Roe v. Wade

  Even before Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court nominee, his record indicated fairly clearly that he opposes Roe
• Jara: Equality and Territory

  The Common Struggle of Indigenous Women in the Andes
• Chapman: How DeVos Wants to Redefine Sexual Misconduct

  The new proposal, as described by the New York Times, is the latest from the Trump administration in a pattern of hostility to survivors
• Frayssinet: The Fight for Abortion Spreads in Latin America

  The Argentine Senate’s rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner among women’s organisations
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  Law: Sex Workers Are Fighting Back

  Anti-Trafficking Laws Are Hurting, Not Helping
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  Brown: A New Film Examines Sexual Violence and the Bakken Oil Boom

  In the mid-2000s, the area surrounding the Fort Berthold Reservation...
• Pierre: You’ve Heard of the Gender Pay Gap, But There’s More

  It takes the typical black woman 20 months to earn what a white male worker earns in a single year
• Bader: How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse Complaints

  "Anything to Avoid a Scandal"

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