Results for: representation
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50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018
Here are 50 of the best books from this year that are by and about women, feminism or gender and related intersectional issues. There seem to be strong recurring themes of dystopia, anger, and navigating violent structures of power. What a coincidence!Â
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20 Titles of Gay Papers I Want to Write One Day
“Three Kids, Two Femmes, a Butch and a Cat: Visions of Queer Domesticity”
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In “Body Horror,” Anne Elizabeth Moore Examines How Consumer Feminism Is Failing Us — and Is Itself Failing
“So, are menstrual bags good, or are they bad? Do they empower women, or further constrict them? It becomes obvious that this is not a zero-sum game, and Moore illuminates the coexistence of multiple conflicting truths.”
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Fool’s Journey: What Makes a ‘Feminist’ Tarot?
“Feminism is about unlocking the bonds of separation. Seeing everyone as equals and raising up those who have been most oppressed by patriarchy. Tarot and oracle decks support this work because they give us a tool to connect to our atomic memory. A memory that knows the equality of all beings.”
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Rebel Girls: How Quota Systems Across the Globe Count Women Into Politics
“Whereas some political systems are centered around equality of opportunity for women in politics — basically, the system we have in the US that (in theory) gives women the chance to run for office and be elected to office just like men, nothing different and nothing more — a growing number of nations and political parties have opted instead to make broader representation of women in their governments an explicit political goal using quota systems.”
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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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FlirtyQWERTY is the Inclusive, Sexy Emoji App You’ve Been Waiting For
I did a quick interview with the founder of FlirtyQWERTY, a free and feminist emoji app, about desegregating tech, bringing people together, and flipping people off.
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Rebel Girls: The 5 Moments in Feminist History That Jump-Started The Second Wave
The nearly half a decade that passed between the first and second waves of feminism was a period of great transition for what hadn’t even yet been named the “feminist movement.”
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Rebel Girls: The Totally Badass Suffrage Exploits of Yore That Gave Us Today’s Voting Rights
A lot of women went through a lot of shit so you could vote, so shut up and do it.
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Clinical Trials on Trial: Medical Studies Still Exclude Women and People of Color to Dangerous Degree
Lack of information makes it impossible for women and people of color today to make fully informed decisions about their health, and denies them the right to advocate for what happens to their bodies.
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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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Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement
Just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality.
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#ProTransProChoice: Launching A New Reproductive Rights Movement
A new petition asks NARAL and Planned Parenthood to step up to the plate as trans* allies with more inclusive language.
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La Virgen de Guadalupe: Brown Goddess in My Heart Forever
La Virgen de Guadalupe has always been dear in my heart and always will be, but the way I view her has changed throughout the years, through various lenses with different interpretations, including now as a queer woman.
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The Bechdel Files Are Basically Everything I’ve Ever Wanted From The Internet
Does it count if it’s Scully talking to Queequeg? Important questions.
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More Than Words: The F-Word (Pt. 1) — Féministes
The first self-defined feminists, boobs, and a lemonade ocean.
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“Wonder Women!” Is An Awesome Documentary About Women, Power and Diana Prince
Finally, some fantastic cultural analysis about women in power and women in patriotic spandex leotards saving the day.
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Ontario’s New High School Gender Studies Class Will Probs Change The World
Ontario’s high schools will offer a gender studies class next semester.
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EU Wants To Fix Gender Inequality… By Banning Porn?
The European Parliament is set to vote March 12th on a proposal that seeks to ban all forms of “pornography” from “the media” without really specifying to which pornography or media they’re referring.
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Cats Against Catcalling Are Cats Worth Scrolling Through
Cats + anti-street harassment slogans = match made in Tumblr heaven.