Latest Fem/Gender

• Paarlberg-Kvam: For Women, A Contradictory Peace in Colombia

  So long as Colombia’s peace accords fail to contend with the liberal economic order or challenge extractivism and militarism in the country, they will fall short of achieving true gender justice
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  Prashad: 5.5 Million Women Build Their Wall

  On Jan. 1, 5.5 million women in the Indian state of Kerala (population 35 million) built a 386-mile wall with their bodies
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  Raina: Women Walking Into Sabarimala First of 2019’s Watershed Moments

  The mega-mass event will go down in India’s contemporary history as a blow on the behalf of reason and constitutional rights and crowns a year of concerted mass determination to obtain gender justice in the cultural-religious domain
• Finley: Congress Must Reauthorize VAWA

  Sadly, this isn’t the first time that Republicans have attempted to block VAWA, literally using women’s lives as a bartering tool
• La Duke: Call for Indigenous-Led “Green New Deal”

  Interview on the indigenous-led fight against destructive oil pipelines and the revolutionary potential of the Green New Deal
• : Our bodies are a battleground

  Reports on women fighting back against Iran's morality laws
• Antilla: Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Harassment Claims

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently sent a memo to employees saying arbitration would now be “optional” for individual claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Facebook announced a similar policy the next day
• AFP: Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution

  The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment and violence against women despite backing from Russia, China, India, several Muslim countries and the Vatican
• 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

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