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Rebel Girls: 16 Women and Girls Who Shook the World in 2016
Here’s 16 women or groups of women who gave me and you and everyone we know some life in this, the darkest of years.
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Rebel Girls: 10 Women Who Want to Save Congress from Itself
These women are running for open seats in elections pitting them against Republicans or are fighting like hell to overthrow incumbent Republicans. That matters!
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Rebel Girls: The Rio Olympics Are The Most Feminist, Inclusive of Them All
We’ve come far. But there’s a long way to the promised land, and if we’ve learned anything in Rio it’s that the literal century-old fight for women’s full inclusion in a historic event isn’t over yet.
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Rebel Girls: The True Stories of 10 Women Breaking Barriers in Contemporary American Politics
The stories of 10 American women who fundamentally altered history simply by showing up and working like hell — in their own words.
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Amnesty International’s Policy Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work is a Move in the Right Direction
Amnesty International’s Board has put together a draft policy on sex work that could lift up and protect some of the most vulnerable and marginalized folks around the world – and feminists and human rights advocates alike could learn a lot from it. The only problem is that they’re too busy speaking over the sex workers and researchers who emphatically support the proposal to really do so.
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Rebel Girls: 7 Suffragists You Probably Didn’t Learn About in School
I wanted to take today’s lesson as an opportunity to totally school you on the suffrage comrades they didn’t teach you about in school, but there’s a ton, so I picked some of my favorites.
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It’s Time for White Feminists to Stop Talking About Solidarity and Start Acting
“When will white feminists take collective responsibility for educating themselves? When will they understand the power at play that sings in their skins? We don’t exist in a vacuum and women of colour don’t exist to hold their hands and explain in painful detail why their behaviour continues to hurt us. Intersectional feminist politics are not for white women to co-opt as their own.”
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Saudi Arabia’s Working Women Propose Their Own City Because They’re Tired of Waiting
If you can’t beat ’em, move out and show ’em they fucked up. And maybe it will work.