Latest Fem/Gender

• Lennard: McDonald’s Workers Striking Against Sexual Harassment

  Tying #MeToo to Their Labor Struggle
• Millhiser: Facebook Suppressed Kavanaugh Story on Opposition to Roe v. Wade

  Even before Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court nominee, his record indicated fairly clearly that he opposes Roe
• Jara: Equality and Territory

  The Common Struggle of Indigenous Women in the Andes
• Chapman: How DeVos Wants to Redefine Sexual Misconduct

  The new proposal, as described by the New York Times, is the latest from the Trump administration in a pattern of hostility to survivors
• Frayssinet: The Fight for Abortion Spreads in Latin America

  The Argentine Senate’s rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner among women’s organisations
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  Law: Sex Workers Are Fighting Back

  Anti-Trafficking Laws Are Hurting, Not Helping
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  Brown: A New Film Examines Sexual Violence and the Bakken Oil Boom

  In the mid-2000s, the area surrounding the Fort Berthold Reservation...
• Pierre: You’ve Heard of the Gender Pay Gap, But There’s More

  It takes the typical black woman 20 months to earn what a white male worker earns in a single year
• Bader: How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse Complaints

  "Anything to Avoid a Scandal"
• Johnson: Stemming Mass Incarceration With a Uniquely Feminist Provision

  Cynthia Nixon’s has a plank to help survivors of domestic violence who are incarcerated for defending themselves
• Garton: A Battlefield for Gender Equality

  Argentina’s women’s soccer team is tired of being sidelined and mistreated. Now they are fighting back, and the Argentine Football Association is taking note
• Fuller: How women reclaimed their island from the Sri Lankan Navy

  To effectively prevent violence, we must also tell the stories in which violence ultimately didn’t happen — for it is these stories that give us the guidance to make “never again” a reality
• Jaffe: Graduate Student Workers Organize Against Sexual Harassment

  The struggle against sexual harassment belongs in the union because it is part of the broader fight against the increased neoliberalization of academia
• Tarico: Abortion: There Is No Ethical Dilemma

  At no stage does life magically appear in a zygote, a blastocyst, an embryo, or a foetus
• Crabtree: Anti-abortion ‘gag rule’ proposal

  The domestic gag rule proposal is just the latest move by the Trump administration to undermine women's health care
• Schultz: You Don’t Have to Overrule Roe to Overrule Roe

  Look to see the Supreme Court continue to acknowledge the validity of Roe as precedent while effectively overruling it with judicially minimal decisions
• Finley: The Most Anti-Woman President Ever

  It’s hard to imagine a presidential administration that hates women more than the current one
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  Pope-Weidemann: How the police fail survivors of sexual assault

  The police drop so many cases that experts say rape has effectively been ‘decriminalised’
• 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’

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