Latest Fem/Gender

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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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  Benjamin: Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS

  How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen? It isn’t
• Olivier: A Feminism for the Working Class

  In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only “educated, middle-class women.” Her critique is more pertinent than ever
• Evans: Rising for a global feminist future with the movement to elect Bernie Sanders

  We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist future.
• Corbett: Millions of Women in Mexico Protest Gender-Based Violence

  "In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; we're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed."
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  Rosen: Abortion and the 2020 Elections

  Trump’s victory reinvigorated the religious right and arch conservatives of every stripe, including white nationalists
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  Pearson: The ‘other’ devastating epidemics coronavirus is distracting us from

  Panic and fomenting fear are well-tried methods of control, distraction and of shifting popular support towards the right
• Saalbrink: Why I’ll be striking for International Women’s Day

  With women’s human rights under threat, strikers across the globe will be revealing the costs of a ‘world without women’.
• Contributors: Transborder Call for a Feminist Strike on March 8th and 9th 2020

  The undersigned collectives met to add their voices to the multiple calls coming from working class, indigenous, Black and peasant women, as well as students, lesbians, trans and travestis to mobilize for action and revolt on March 8th and 9th
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  Cohn: Arguments About Bloomberg’s “Electability” Overlook His Racism and Misogyny

  The Washington Post reported that sexual harassment complaints have been filed against Bloomberg for many years, including allegations of crude sexual language
• Caradonna: Unionization + Decriminalization + Feminist Education = The Red Feminist Horizon

  With the development of both an industrial and a political strategy, sex workers are now leading important discussions about sex, violence, and workers rights
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  Penny: Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?

  Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?
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  Smith: Supreme Court Could Gut Reproductive Rights Without A Ruling

  the latest salvo in the ongoing effort of anti-abortion lawmakers to erode reproductive rights
• Martin: New U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Fails to Capture Many Deaths

  Since 2007, the government had held off on releasing an official estimate of expectant and new mothers who died from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. It waited for the data to get better. But the new, long-anticipated number falls short
• & Taína Asili: One Billion Rising: V-Day and Campaign to End Sexual Violence

  This Valentine’s Day, people around the world took to the streets to protest violence against women and girls
• Linnitt: Links between ‘man camps,’ violence against Indigenous women

  A formal request for judicial review submitted with the B.C. Supreme Court argues B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office extended permit for Coastal GasLink pipeline without considering the findings of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

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