Latest Fem/Gender

• Speller: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Given Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent

  A look into the practices putting immigrants detained in the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) — operated by private prison company LaSalle Corrections — at risk and allegedly irreparably harming their health and freedom
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  Hynes: A Pandemic Within The Pandemic

  Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for Covid 19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes
• Thompson: The Banality of Evocation

  How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended
• Paslaski: Call the Victory Women

  In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the Covid-19 crisis in its New American community
• Collective: A feminist response to the pandemic

  The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the essential roles care work and reproductive labor fulfill in our societies. But will it lead to gender liberation?
• Visser: Meet Alabama’s feminist doctor protecting women giving birth under COVID-19

  "The US is the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world."
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  Edwards: acism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate

  What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee?
• Paley: Feminism and Chile’s social explosion

  Over the past months, as cases of COVID-19 have risen, sporadic demonstrations and conflicts with police have erupted around Santiago as residents protest a lack of health measures, food and money to make it though.
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  Cole: Ted Yoho authorized all Men to call all Women F*cking B*tches

  This is a pattern of an attitude towards women and dehumanization of others
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  Blain: “Silence is not an option”: Black women make history

  Inerview on the vital role of Black women leaders in the success of Black political movements in modern US history
• Dirik: Unbowed

  Turkey is bent on extinguishing a beacon of women’s liberation in northern Syria. But the women of Rojava are not giving up
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  Smith: The Fight to Protect Abortion Access Amid the Pandemic

  “The governor and attorney general’s ban put Texas patients in heart-breaking situations — it was politics at its worst.”
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  Azeez: Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava

  Democratic confederalism, the ideological framework organizing society in Rojava, outlines the features of a post-revolutionary justice system
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  Cohn: The Supreme Court Is About to Make Seismic Rulings on Reproductive Rights

  The rights of women to terminate their pregnancies and to receive free contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are on the chopping block
• Paley: Women rise against violence in Ecuador

  The pandemic has pushed women in Ecuador to mobilize their networks for the purposes of mutual aid. 
• Dolan: Hawaii Considers an Explicitly Feminist Plan for COVID-Era Economic Recovery

  “The road to economic recovery should not be across women’s backs,” reads the first sentence of Hawaii’s Feminist Economic Recovery Plan
• Castro Espín: Sexual rights and emancipation in Cuba

  The 1959 revolution launched a project of social justice and equity, an event that would change policies regarding gender and sexualities, among profound, radical transformations in the nation and its culture
• Alstott: Mothering in a Pandemic

  Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.
• Herrera: In Argentina, the Next Generation Finds Its Voice

  Ofelia Fernández is the youngest lawmaker in Latin America. Despite online hate, she's leading the youth movement for the political rights of women.
• Paley: Feminists build power in Uruguay

  Source: Toward Freedom 03 08 2020 / Montevideo, Uruguay: Poster...

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