Results for: be the change
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Rebel Girls: 25 Women Who Changed the Game in 2015
These women mounted movements, won awards, told important stories, and otherwise shook the sh*t out of this planet in 2015.
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Rebel Girls: 20 Autostraddle Community Members Who Are Changing the World
Documentary films. Policy initiatives. Direct action. These 20 activists are doing it all to save the world — and they’re Autostraddle readers just like you!
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Rebel Girls: 22 Badass Black Women Who Are Leading Movements, Changing the World, Generally Awesome
Too often, paradigm shifts in the feminist movement are posited as if they come from the past.
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Rebel Girls: “The Crunk Feminist Collection” is the New Year’s Read Feminists Need
This is the year the resistance takes shape. And for feminists looking for a roadmap, The Crunk Feminist Collection is the newly-printed guidebook that sets the path.
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Rebel Girls Reading List: 16 Things Hillary Clinton Meant
Hillary Clinton is not President of the United States.
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Rebel Girls: A Reading List for the Revolution
This election shook me to my core. That’s undeniable. I am still grieving and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. I am so fucking angry and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. But I refuse to be scared, or cowed, or defeated.
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Rebel Girls Gift Guide: What to Buy Your Favorite Feminist for the Holigays
If there is anyone in your life currently in need of a truly empowering and also on-brand gift which to utilize to further the progress of our nation or look woke AF, it’s the feminist you know and love.
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Rebel Girls: 10 Queer and Trans Women Who Want to Save Your State From Itself
A woman is gonna be president so soon! Get the fuck into it! And while you’re at it, vote for these queer and trans women.
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Rebel Girls: 5 Times Women Swayed Presidential Elections
When women won the right to vote in America, they changed the entire political and cultural landscape that surrounded their lives.
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Rebel Girls: It Turns Out, Voting For Women Isn’t Enough
Voting for women isn’t all it takes to reach gender parity in politics. Changing our political system from the bottom-up will go a lot further.
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Rebel Girls: How Women (and Women’s Issues) Are at the Center of the 2016 Election
This election has been shaped by Clinton’s campaign at least as much as Trump’s trainwreck of one. She’s aggressively capitalized on her gender by positioning it not as a side note, or even a historic anecdote waiting to happen, but instead as a tangible asset than shifts her ability to lead.
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Rebel Girls: Talking to Sarah McBride about Politics, Trans Rights, and Hillary Clinton
“It really was an honor to be able to stand on that stage and, hopefully, help educate the country a little bit more about transgender equality. More than anything else, I wanted to reinforce the simple fact that transgender people are people, who hurt when they are mocked, who hurt when they are discriminated against, and who want to be treated with dignity and fairness.”
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Empowering the Feminists of the Future: A Q&A with “Powered by Girl” Author Lyn Mikel Brown
I chatted with Lyn this week about the book, youth activism, and intergenerational activism. She had a lot of amazing things to say, spoiler alert.
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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: 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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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 Reading List: The True Tales of 8 Women Who Ran (Parts of) the World
These memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies tell the stories of women who ran countries around the world — from the top.
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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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Rebel Girls: 9 Queer Glass Ceiling Crashers Currently Doing Good Sh*t
There’s a whole lot of patriarchy left to shatter in this cruel world, including at every level of our government. And we need people to crash through glass ceilings in politics who aren’t just straight women.