Latest Fem/Gender
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Benjamin: How Feminists Can Support Afghan Women Living Under the Taliban
When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The US government must release those funds
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Khazan: The Abortion Backup Plan No One Is Talking About
Even in states with the strictest abortion laws, pregnant people have a safe, inexpensive option to terminate their pregnancies. But few know about it
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Wilkins: Women Rally for Abortion Justice
"The American people support the right to a safe, legal abortion. We're not going back—not now, not ever."
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Barr: For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’
The Taliban are going back on their promise to respect women’s rights. What can the international community do?
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Susskind: Three Lessons to Chart a Path Forward in Solidarity With Afghan Women
This time we can stand with Afghan women on their own terms, by asking them what they want and working hand-in-hand with them to support their leadership and meet their communities' needs
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Burk: A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women
For now, the Supreme Court has allowed Texas to sic bounty hunters on women seeking constitutionally protected abortions
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Cohn: Justice Department Fights Back Against Texas Anti-Abortion Law
Outlawing abortion will not prevent abortions. It will prevent safe abortions from occurring within the state
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Elbaum: Trump, Texas, and the MAGA Drive for Power
The more we contribute to beating the MAGA Faction in this round of voting, the better positioned we are to push further toward the multiracial democracy, transformed economy, and changed relationship with the planet
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Corbett: Architect of Texas Abortion Ban Takes Aim at LGBTQ+ Rights
"Make no mistake, the goal is to force extreme, outdated, religious-driven values on all of us through the courts."
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Booth: A Legendary Abortion Rights Activist on What Comes After Texas
Heather Booth and the Jane Collective helped thousands of people have abortions before Roe. Their example is once again relevant
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Rathi: We Have to Stop Limiting Our Focus to Courts in the Defense of Abortion Rights
The unavoidable answer is that our strategies are not working. Frustrating as it may be to watch the Supreme Court delegitimize itself, the next generation of change needs a broader, more grassroots horizon
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Bezhan: Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women At Afghan Universities
Scores of women have staged protests in Kabul, the western city of Herat, and the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif in recent days, demanding equal rights.
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Solomon: Abortion Bounty Hunters in Texas Are Not ‘Whistleblowers’ — They’re Cruel Vigilantes
The largest anti-abortion group in Texas is trying to attach the virtuous “whistleblower” label to predators who’ll file lawsuits against abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” a woman getting an abortion
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Cohn: SCOTUS Ruling Allows Texas to Deputize Citizens as Anti-Abortion Police
Donald Trump’s installation of three radical right-wing “justices” on the Supreme Court is paying off for the forces trying to overturn Roe v. Wade
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McNamara: What the Texas Abortion Ban Means For People Seeking an Abortion
The bill allows private citizens to file civil lawsuits against anyone they believe “aids and abets.”
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SCOTUS Won’t Block Texas Abortion Ban That Is “Clearly an Unconstitutional Law”
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Lennard: The Supreme Court Will Not Save Us From the Decimation of Abortion Rights
With Texas all but banning abortion and endorsing a repugnant vigilantism, we need to look for other ways to protect access to abortion
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Johnson: Roe v. Wade in Grave Danger
"Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating."
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Fenwick: Justice Sotomayor writes a furious dissent
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a clearly furious dissent late Wednesday night to the majority's order allowing a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to stay in force
ZMag Fem/Gender
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Susskind: A Feminist Blueprint for Saving Democracy in the U.S.—and Beyond
Feminists know that building transnational solidarity is often crucial when trying to counter domestic oppression
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Sargent: There’s No Such Thing As Legitimate Rape, Because There’s No Such Thing As Rape
For weeks on end, we heard about no pregnancy rape, bad weather rape, no rape in marriage, forced rape, gray rape—sex that falls between consent and denial—and date rape.
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Gordon: The Future May Be Female
Photo by Diegyms/Shutterstock.com Before I found myself “sheltering in...
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Benjamin: Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul’s immediate and unconditional release
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Corbett: Millions of Women in Mexico Join “Day Without Us” Strike to 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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Evans: Rising for a global feminist future with the movement to elect Bernie Sanders
All across this country and globe, women and children have been working toward a shift in collective consciousness
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Mazzarino: Women and Trauma in the Trump/Putin Era
Photo by Ms Jane Campbell/Shutterstock.com Last month, as hundreds...
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Black Smith: #Hashtag Me TOO: Reflections on Women’s Solidarity
5 percent voted to elect the over 70, sexually aggressive, “pussy-grabbing” unproven and under-qualified man to the most powerful political office in the country.
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There’s enough wealth in this country to allow the rich to be rich and still eradicate most barriers to a genuine women’s liberation, which starts with economic justice in the workplace
Video Fem./Gender
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On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
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Graham: Women March in Defiance
In Baltimore and around the world the second anniversary of the Women's March on Washington prompted calls for unity in resisting the policies of the Trump Administration
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Sarkeesian: Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival
Talk at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love
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Solnit: The Santa Barbara Massacre & Viral Response to Misogynist Violence
"Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender"
Audio Fem./Gender
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In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
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Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth
Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
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Folbre: The Socialist Feminist Imaginary
NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of...
Fem/Gender Books
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: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
About the Book Palestinian Women is the first book to...
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Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues...
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As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham’s A Century of Women:...
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Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert...
Fem/Gender Blogs
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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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: Wisewords Bookclub: March 2011 – EVERY WEDNESDAY in MARCH.
On Wednesday 9 March Carol Dyhouse discusses her book "Glamour:...
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Black: Beyond Parts Per Million
Here is a great publication that I helped to put...
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Forte: Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation by the Taleban?
Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation...
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Black: G20 fightback campaigning in London, Ontario, Canada
Since the G20 Summit in Toronto, activists here in...
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Black: Inter-gender and inter-sex solidarity ?
Three photos from the local university campus — with written...
