Tag Archives: Marriage
Quick Hit: Stacia L. Brown’s advocacy for the voices of single mothers
TweetWriter Stacia L. Brown is changing the conversation around single motherhood within communities of color and beyond. Brown rightly highlights the glaring omission in recent trend pieces reporting exploring the rise of single parenting in America. “The latest numbers on unmarried parenting are out. The National Marriage Project reports that 58 percent of first births in [...]
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Weekly Feminist Reader
Tweet A photographer examines the struggle to provide women with safe, respectful care during childbirth. Rush Limbaugh says VAWA is just a mean plot by the Democrats to make the GOP look bad. Obviously. There’s a profile of feminist bad-ass Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this week’s New Yorker. A interesting discussion of women’s position within Sikhism. [...]
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Melissa Harris-Perry discusses single mothers, gun violence, and Obama’s “daddy issues”
TweetI don’t know if y’all heard Melissa Harris-Perry’s critique of President Obama’s speech on gun violence in Chicago last Friday. Watch it: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This. All of this. No, seriously…MHP effectively deconstructs this false narrative of personal responsiblity and marriage as the balm to all [...]
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Amelia Earhart prenup from the 1930′s lays out a pretty darn modern vision of marriage
Tweet Wondering what a feminist icon living in the earlier half of the 1900′s thought about love and marriage? Look no further than the document above, a letter from Earhart to her future husband George Putnam. You’ll remember Earhart became famous as the first female aviator to fly a solo transatlantic flight, redefining expectations [...]
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