Latest Fem/Gender

• Burns: All-Out Assault on Reproductive Rights

  One bill includes provisions that would cut all Title X family planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program funding from the 2019 budget.
• Lennard: The Misogynistic Logic of Asylum Policy

  This decision could invalidate tens of thousands of pending asylum claims from women fleeing domestic and gang violence, which often intersect, in Central America and Mexico
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  Cockburn: Kurdish women protest after being told to wear the hijab

  Campaign trying ‘to force women to stay in their homes and not to take part in public life as Kurdish women have traditionally been able to do’
• Shammalah: The Great Return March and the Women of Gaza

  Why Palestine’s Feminists are Fighting on Two Fronts
• Anderson: In Argentina, Feminists Versus the Catholic Church

  Argentina’s Lower House will vote on a bill to legalize abortion on June 13 after a congressional debate opened in March for the first time in the country’s history. Why is it happening now, and why has it taken so long?
• Hasstedt: Undermining People’s Access to Birth Control

  Interview on reproductive health restrictions
• Hoyos: Will Argentina Legalize Abortion?

  As Argentina debates a new law to legalize abortion, activists like Sandra Hoyos are rallying for a pro-choice future for the country
• Gilbert: International solidarity bolsters women’s struggles

  The women of Kurdistan stand in solidarity with the women of Ireland – and call for a Yes vote to Repeal the 8th
• Finley: Stop Blaming Women and Girls for Men’s Violence Against Them

  Despite the clear linkage between hegemonic masculinity and lethal violence, school officials continue to disregard this warning sign
• Turi: #AlertaFeminista rallies shake Spanish cities

  They are feminists, they are many of them, and they are angry
• Conley: Keeping Women From Obtaining Abortion Care and Counseling

  The Trump administration is expected to announce a new policy that would cut funding for health clinics that provide abortions
• Boguhn: Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Will Target Planned Parenthood

  Title X provides family planning services to nearly 4 million patients with low incomes in the United States, many of whom are people of color who face systemic barriers to health-care access
• Torres Goitia: What Students Are Capable Of

  Sexual Harassment and the Collateral Beauty of Resistance
• Pember: ‘I Would Want My Story to Have Meaning’

  Mapping Out Missing and Murdered Native Women
• Boesten: Ni Una Menos Stares Down Conservative Reaction

  As an unprecedented wave of feminist campaigns gains ground across Latin America, a dangerous backlash is afoot on various fronts
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  Roy: Impunity for Rape in India

  How Violence Is Used as a Tool of the State
• Contributors: Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls

  Native Leaders Bring Attention to Impact of Fossil Fuel Industry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
• Slee: The Kurdish movement for radical change

  The female fighters of the YPJ (Women's Protection Units) are part of a movement aimed at radical change in Syria and the broader Middle East
• Lalaguna: When did rape become entertainment?

  Destroying gender inequality once and for all, is an essential precondition for both race and class equality to be achieved
• Facet: A feminist outpouring shakes the Spanish state

  Interview on the background to the uprising and what it means for future organizing

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