Tag Archives: Feminism
Feminist radicalism isn’t a “brand problem”
TweetThere’s been a lot of recent discussion recently about feminism’s supposed public relations problem. Both Hanna Rosin at Double X and Abigail Rine at the Atlantic have suggested we might want to abandon the “f-word” altogether. People like our ideas, they argue, but have negative associations with feminism. I appreciated Samhita’s recent intervention about creating [...]
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Thank You Thursdays: The cross-dressing Kurd Men For Equality
TweetEarlier this month, in the city of Marivan, Iran, a judged sentenced a man convicted of domestic abuse to be paraded around town dressed in traditional Kurdish women’s clothing. This was a “punishment” since obviously being a woman is so embarrassing, amirite? In response, a local feminist group held a rally, and 17 members of [...]
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What can we do about feminism’s brand problem?
Tweet According to a new study at the Huffington Post (with YouGov) there is a major disparity between people that believe in equality “between the sexes” and identify as feminist. The study found that only 20% of Americans identify as feminist whereas 82% believe that “men and women should be social, political, and economic equals.” [...]
#femfuture launches: Online revolution
TweetOur impact paper, #femfuture: Online Revolution, goes public today! Share our first infographic (one of many visuals which will be shared from our Facebook page), engage on Twitter, and let’s do this thing. Click here for a text version of the infographic. Tweet
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Quote of the Day: “Motherhood and fatherhood are not binaries”