Latest Fem/Gender

• Collective 20: From 2000 Feet

  The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
• Karlis: Why Biden’s free childcare plan is a worthy feminist reform

  Beyond the social element, there's a strong economic argument to be made for such a policy
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  Jorden: Police Fire on Femicide Protest in Cancún

  The details were sickening and at the same time so familiar. Another young woman missing, raped, murdered and mutilated
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  Davidson: Post-Election Reckoning: New Hypotheses for the Road Ahead

  The politics of this race do not make any sense unless one factors in racism and revanchism, the seeking of revenge
• Okun: Patriarchy’s Post Election End Days

  We may have begun to acknowledge that racism has its knee on the necks of Black people, but to fully heal America we’ll have to admit patriarchy has its other knee on the necks of women
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  Kolhatkar: How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy

  The pandemic has revealed the barbaric nature of an economy that has largely left the care of children to the whims of market forces. The well-being of children, women, and especially women of color is at stake
• Walker: Barrett Decried Roe’s “Barbaric Legacy,” But Now Says She Doesn’t Have an Agenda

  Amy Coney Barrett refused on Tuesday to give a straightforward answer on the question of whether she believes a landmark abortion case should remain intact or not
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  Laven: The Menacing Threat of Hate and Political Violence

  Rights for all races, all ethnicities, all religions, all sexual identities—all are vital in our America. We must defend our communities against the forces of division
• Suk: Save the Equal Rights Amendment

  This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers
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  Geybullayeva: In Turkey, women rise up to stop withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention

  The Istanbul Convention is a Council of Europe treaty designed to prevent violence against women
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  Cohn: Ginsburg’s Legacy Is Vast, But a Trump Appointee Could Overturn Her Best Rulings

  A Trump appointment would substitute a right-wing justice for Ginsburg, making a 6-3 conservative majority. There would be solid votes to overrule Roe v. Wade and strike down the Affordable Care Act.
• Speller: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent

  A look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and freedom
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  Hynes: A Pandemic Within The Pandemic

  Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for Covid 19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes
• Thompson: The Banality of Evocation

  How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended
• Paslaski: Call the Victory Women

  In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the Covid-19 crisis in its New American community
• Collective: A feminist response to the pandemic

  The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the essential roles care work and reproductive labor fulfill in our societies. But will it lead to gender liberation?
• Visser: Meet Alabama’s feminist doctor protecting women giving birth under COVID-19

  "The US is the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world."
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  Edwards: acism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate

  What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee?
• Paley: Feminism and Chile’s social explosion

  Over the past months, as cases of COVID-19 have risen, sporadic demonstrations and conflicts with police have erupted around Santiago as residents protest a lack of health measures, food and money to make it though.
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  Cole: Ted Yoho authorized all Men to call all Women F*cking B*tches

  This is a pattern of an attitude towards women and dehumanization of others

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