Latest Fem/Gender

• Reagan: The Sounds of Struggle

  Once again it is Black women artists and movement leaders who are pushing forward, taking us in new directions
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  Njoku: Envisioning a South where reproductive justice is a reality

  Interview on the future of reproductive justice in the U.S. South
• Kolbert: Controlling Women

  With Roe v. Wade in Peril, Authors Say Move Past Court to Save Reproductive Rights
• Hess: Why do Black women in the US have more C-sections than white women?

  Black women in the US have the highest risk of dying in childbirth. Dangerous and unnecessary caesareans have a lot to do with this. What’s going on?
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  Klikauer: Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Germany

  In most cases, women took over the largest share of additional childcare needs which came in the wake of widespread school closures
• with the People of El Salvador: Feminists in El Salvador Fight Against a Misogynist Government

  As we watch this quick reversal of women’s rights unfold from a far, the international community has a duty to act in solidarity with the women and feminist movements in El Salvador
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  Prashad: Women Everywhere in the World Are Squeezed into a Tight Corner

  ‘It is evident that women are crying out for an improvement in their status. The times demand it. Humanity aspires to it’.
• Ros: ‘If you report abuse, you lose your job’

  Fed up with exploitation and sexual assault, women farm workers in Spain are campaigning to make their collective voice heard
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  Geybullayeva: Women protest across country as Turkey withdraws from Istanbul Convention

  Heavy police intervention was reported across the country
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  Benjamin: #FreeBrittney and all Saudi Women too!

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• Padhi: Indian women rise up against Modi’s Farm Bills

  Women are turning the tide against the patriarchal oppression and agrarian distress that have often kept them from organizing actively in farmers' resistance
• Fonseca: Where is the State of Emergency?

  How do we manage that rage and indignation and re-channel them as something liberatory against systems of oppression, not in a way that reinforces those systems?
• : “Disaster Patriarchy”

  The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in gender-based violence, job losses in female-dominated industries, greater parenting duties for mothers, and other pressures that primarily fall on women around the world
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  Jorden: Actor’s Death Links Homophobia, Sexism and Covid Denial in Brazil

  Paulo Gustavo was remembered in mass protests in 24 states and the capital district on May 29 against the Bolsonaro government’s inaction in the face of Covid
• Garzon: After Decades of Oppression, Colombian Women Lead Front Lines of National Strike

  Women’s presence in Colombia’s national strike—both as activists and as victims—has caught the world’s attention
• Quiroz: The macho state: coercion, patriarchy and resistance

  When police officers themselves are responsible for so many cases of gender-based violence and when so many cases are never addressed by the judicial system, what does that say about both the institution of the police, the state and their coercive apparatus?
• Mazzarino: Changing the Way the Military Handles Sexual Assault

  Or How Not to Leave the Fox Guarding the Henhouse
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  Smith: Mississippi’s Only Abortion Clinic Is at Center of Fight for Future of Roe v. Wade

  The Mississippi law is the first outright ban the Supreme Court has considered since the landmark case that legalized abortion
• Featherstone: Mother’s Day Has Deeply Radical Roots

  Mother’s Day isn’t just a holiday for greeting card and chocolate companies to make a buck, but of radical antiwar and feminist organizers
• Koltsova: ‘The word feminism is still a trigger’

  Russia's feminists in their own words

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