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Welcome to 2012!
First of all, I want to thank you, my readers, for gifting Feminist Activism with more than 92,000 views last year! And already January has seen over 5,000 views… only 3,000 more until we have a party...
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Equal Pay Day
April 17th is Equal Pay Day in the United States. Equal Pay Day marks how far into 2012 women have to work to earn what men did in 2011. See this graph by the Atlantic for an exploration of the pay gap...
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International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia/Biphobia & Transphobia – IDAHO. It is an annual event commemorated by millions of people from Ireland to Fiji and in dozens of other countries...
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The Republican War on Women
The War on Women being waged in the United States is culminating in the likely closure of the only abortion clinic in the nation’s poorest state, Mississippi. Measures specifically introduced by the...
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The War FOR Women
Soon I start a six-week online training course designed to teach Americans more about how to defend women’s human rights against the egregious attacks against women’s health, sexuality and autonomy...
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What I Learned From DFA
I recently finished Democracy for America‘s online activist training “The War For Women” in the hopes of combatting current Republican efforts to undermine women’s rights in the United States. To see...
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40 Days of Hate and Hypocrisy
My recent move back to the United States has brought me full circle and I’m working again for the same abortion provider I was when I left the US three years ago. Counseling women in a time of need,...
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The Evolving Electorate
The November 2012 election was a cacophonous backlash against the Republican War on Women. While 47,000 women annually around the world are dying from being denied abortions, Americans made it clear...
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The Gendered Privileges of Emotions
Anger is the emotion of the privileged. There. I said it. If you’re not familiar with the politics of privilege, it’s basically the idea that with certain categories of humanness come certain...
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Honoring Women’s Equality Day
We interrupt the regularly scheduled coverage of the miscarriage of justice in Texas to wish you a Happy Women’s Equality Day! While we are obviously still not fully equal any chance to reflect on the...
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