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Weekly Feminist Reader
“If this doesn’t describe out of touch with Americans I don’t know what does.” –Chris Piascik Mallika Dutt on the war on immigrant women. Bei Bei Shuai has spent a year in jail in Indiana for the “crime” of attempting suicide while pregnant. Join the campaign to get the charges dropped. Th Guardian interviews badass [...]
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Just a little reminder: Abortion is healthcare. Healthcare is a right. A must-read by Charles Blow on the case of Trayvon Martin: “This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world: that a man with a gun and an itchy finger will find them ‘suspicious.’” A Georgia Rep. says [...]
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Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton with awardee Aneesa Ahmed at the 2012 International Women of Courage Awards ceremony. [Via] Yesterday was the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. Providing abortions shouldn’t be brave, but it is. They deserve our thanks every day. Are you a slut? This flowchart will tell you. The Justice Department [...]
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“No matter who you are, love is love.” The Hairpin talks to the makers of the Desire Project–”a website about what women want and how they get it. Elizabeth Mendez Berry and Salamishah Tillet say the Rihanna/Chris Brown story “was a teachable moment without the follow-through.” The trial over Egypt’s forced virginity tests has been [...]
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