2013 June Archive | Feministing

Weekly Feminist Reader: Open Thread

Lady Gaga sings the national anthem, with a queer twist, at NYC’s Pride festival this weekend.

Alexandra’s off today, so we’re making today’s Reader an open thread. What have you been reading/writing/watching/learning this week?

Lady Gaga sings the national anthem, with a queer twist, at NYC’s Pride festival this weekend.

Alexandra’s off today, so we’re making today’s Reader an open thread. What have you been reading/writing/watching/learning this week?

By Lori Adelman • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Bwahaha the sneakers Wendy Davis wore during her epic Texas filibuster are enjoying a good old-fashioned Amazon review takeover. It’s pretty great, especially considering how the little the mainstream media covered her feminist win. And just a friendly reminder that if you were inspired by Wendy Davis, you should run for office.

Here’s another PSA: Rachel Jeantel is not on trial so maybe you should stop mocking her.

Feminists have food and body image issues, too.

It’s Pride Weekend in NYC — get in on the goodness!

Bwahaha the sneakers Wendy Davis wore during her epic Texas filibuster are enjoying a good old-fashioned Amazon review takeover. It’s pretty great, especially considering how the little the ...

By Lori Adelman • 10 years ago

Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: A note of thanks to my fellow Texans

Ed note: This is a guest post by Jessica Luther. Jessica Luther is a freelance writer, reproductive justice activist, historian, and proud Texan. She is on Twitter at @scATX and her main site is jessicawluther.com. To my fellow Texans: Living as a progressive in Texas can be hard. Often you feel outnumbered, silenced, and underrepresented. I have believed for a long time that Texas has the potential to change its political makeup, that all we needed was some kind of spark to light the fire of change. What happened over the last week, as hundreds and then thousands of Texans showed up in person to protest incredibly restrictive anti-choice and anti-access abortion bills, that was the most beautiful spark I’ve ever seen. By ...

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 10 years ago

Immigration reform bill clears Senate, but is it a feminist win?

Yesterday, in a 68-32 vote, the comprehensive immigration reform bill that we’ve been hearing so much about cleared the Senate. It’s a pretty big deal – it’s been a long time since an effort to comprehensively reform our immigration system got this far. But while some are hailing this as a major success, there are a lot of reasons to be concerned, particularly if we care about immigrant women and LGBTQ folks.

First, the bill passed with significant restrictions to health care access for low-income immigrants, meaning that folks who are eligible to begin the process toward citizenship will have to wait 15 years once that process is under way to be eligible for public benefits programs like Medicaid. This ...

By Eesha Pandit • 10 years ago

Today: Celebrate Trans Day of Action and join the fight for LGBTQ liberation

This has been a big week for the LGBTQ community. The Supreme Court’s rulings on DOMA and California’s Proposition 8 were hallmark decisions that we’ll look to for years to come as pivotal moments in the movement for equal rights. And yet, as many of us that work for justice beyond equality know, there is so much more to be done.

Today, the Audre Lorde Project (ALP) and their partners celebrate their Annual Trans Day of Action, to be held today from 2-5pm at the Christopher Street Pier in NYC, and it couldn’t be more important:

“As we celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Stone Wall Riots, we want to lift up and honor the legacy of Trans ...

By Chloe Angyal • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Rick Perry’s greatest hits. I’d call this week his greatest miss.

A gut wrenching six-word story from The Race Card Project: “Black babies cost less to adopt.”

What white people don’t know about Rachel Jeantel.

The amazing Ann Friedman on Wendy Davis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

President Obama visits Nelson Mandela, and stands with FLOTUS in the Door of No Return, through which millions of Africans passed before being put on slave ships bound for America.

Rick Perry’s greatest hits. I’d call this week his greatest miss.

A gut wrenching six-word story from The Race Card Project: “Black babies cost less to adopt.”

What white people don’t know about Rachel Jeantel.

The amazing ...

By Sesali B. • 10 years ago

Provision to Ohio budget could tighten abortion restrictions

It only took a day to blow my Wendy Davis high. Attacks on women’s access to abortion are happening in Ohio. In the process of passing a state budget, Ohio Republicans added a provision at the last minute that would require the following:

“…a doctor to use external medical means – likely an abdominal ultrasound – to find the heartbeat. The doctor would then have to notify the woman about the presence of the heartbeat and the fetus’ likelihood of surviving to full term.”

Rules like this one really get my tits in a twirl because they re-emphasize the fact that we do not trust women to be able to make choices about their bodies and lives. Instead, we think ...

It only took a day to blow my Wendy Davis high. Attacks on women’s access to abortion are happening in Ohio. In the process of passing a state budget, Ohio Republicans added a provision at ...

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 10 years ago

Quick hit: #ChangeBrazil: Who was never sleeping, who just woke up, and why

I’m over on my blog today talking about the movement that is taking place in Brazil and its implications for Brazil’s marginalized communities.

This movement was started by people who have been historically denied access to public space, including people of color, the poor, members of the LGBTQ community and women. But now, for the first time in decades, Brazilians of all classes, genders, races and sexualities are learning what these people have always lived with.

Black Brazilians have long known the results of police brutality, watching as their young men are systematically killed through police or drug-related violence. Brazilian women are all too familiar with the fact that their presence in public space is often dictated by the ...

I’m over on my blog today talking about the movement that is taking place in Brazil and its implications for Brazil’s marginalized communities.

This movement was started by people who have been historically denied access ...