All posts tagged "misogyny"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, International Women’s Day
By Macy Casper In March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. I was surprised, given the current political climate, to see the lack of youth media...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The People’s Champ
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Listen
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...
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LET’S PLAY…An Anti-Racist, Feminist WOMAN CARD
By Zillah Eisenstein COUNT US IN!!! “We” are at the ready to play the WOMAN card. But what is an anti-racist feminist supposed to do?...
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Trans Feminine Humility
By Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Even though I was assigned male at birth and raised in a home with a strict emphasis on gender roles, I, as...
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Towards An Abolitionist Feminism
By Zillah Eisenstein As an anti-racist white feminist, I wonder if it is enough to be an “ally” in this present and “newest” moment of...
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Op Ed: A Curse Be Upon It
By Ankita Anand For years now I have been looking to enrich my vocabulary of swear words with no troublesome arrows in the quiver. There...
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Where are the White Feminists? MIA on Racist Misogynist Police Violence
The Oklahoma NAACP recently called on the Department of Justice to investigate accused rapist and Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw for federal hate crime...
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Internalized Misogyny within the Geek Community
By Desiree Rodriguez When geek culture started to truly flourish with the increasing profitability of superhero movies, supernaturally based TV shows, and renewed interest in the...
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No More Disposable Love: Expanding the Bechdel Test for Movies
By Lily July Imagine a TV world where being rejected by a woman meant sending her a respectful “Sorry it didn’t work out” note and...
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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Patriarchal PONTIFICATIONS, and the Problem of “Justice”
By Zillah Eisenstein Pope Francis criticizes unbridled capitalism for its injustice. He has been applauded widely and loudly for this and he should be. But...
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A Love Note to Sisters in Struggle
By Leah Sicat March 31, 2013 Dear Sisters, I have learned, over time, that it’s a man’s world in which some men hate women, some...
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans...
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Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The...
