- ‘I felt humiliated’: parents respond to NHS maternity care racial bias inquiryBlack, Asian and ethnic minority women report being denied pain relief or feeling unheard to panel investigating mortality disparityFeeling manipulated into having medical procedures, dismissed by professionals and labelled with racial stereotypes are among the complaints of parents who responded to a national inquiry into racial injustice in UK maternity... Read more »
- ‘Out of Trump playbook’: UK accused of ‘abandoning’ women with cuts to aidCharity warns of 22,000 additional deaths in poorest countries if Wish reproductive health programme ends ‘My son could die’: the disabled Syrian refugees on the sharp end of UK aid cuts – photo essayThe director of a leading sexual and reproductive health charity has accused the government of “abandoning” women... Read more »
- ‘We’ve been inundated’: England’s beauty salons say cash-splashing clients excited to returnClamour for salon appointments comes as uncertainty remains over new rules on shorter, basic treatmentsLike many people in the beauty industry, Dennie Smith’s phone has been ringing off the hook as people clamour for appointments when salons reopen in England on Monday.Her Vintage 62 unisex hair salon in south Croydon... Read more »
- Me and my ‘she shed’: women on the joys of their garden retreatsMove over man caves! Now women are discovering what a life-saver their own private sheds can beAt the entrance to Angela Benjamin’s shed is a copper sign that reads: “She Cave”, and a deep purple clematis weaves its way through the letters. The shed is a simple wooden structure at... Read more »
- It is time to reassess our obsession with women’s fertility and the number 35 | Arwa MahdawiA study extending women’s reproductive years offers a chance to look again at how the age of 35 has been treated as a fertility cliff Continue reading...... Read more »
Women | The Guardian
- ● ‘Marry your rapist’ laws in 20 countries still allow perpetrators to escape justiceCritical UN report says the legislation is ‘deeply wrong’, subjugates women and shifts the burden of guilt on to the victimTwenty countries still allow rapists to marry their victims to escape criminal prosecution, according to the UN’s annual state of world population report.Russia, Thailand and Venezuela are among the countries... Read more »
- ‘Out of Trump playbook’: UK accused of ‘abandoning’ women with cuts to aidCharity warns of 22,000 additional deaths in poorest countries if Wish reproductive health programme ends ‘My son could die’: the disabled Syrian refugees on the sharp end of UK aid cuts – photo essayThe director of a leading sexual and reproductive health charity has accused the government of “abandoning” women... Read more »
- Reproduction without pregnancy: would it really emancipate women? | Jenny KleemanIt may sound far-fetched, but a breakthrough in Israel has brought us a step closer to creating artificial wombs for humansA team of Israeli scientists announced the mother of all inventions last week. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science revealed in the journal Nature that they had successfully gestated... Read more »
- Guam moves closer to restoring abortion access after ACLU lawsuitIt’s been impossible to get an abortion on the island since 2018, and the closest legal clinic is in HawaiʻiGuam has taken a significant step toward restoring abortion access, after the ACLU scored a victory in a lawsuit that seeks to ensure residents of the US territory can turn to... Read more »
- Arkansas bans nearly all abortions in sweeping measureLaw, which supporters hope will force the supreme court to revisit Roe v Wade, does not provide exceptions for cases of rape or incestArkansas has passed a new law banning nearly all abortions in the state, a sweeping measure that supporters hope will force the US supreme court to revisit... Read more »
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- Judi Jackson obituaryMy mother, Judi Jackson, who has died aged 74, was a Labour councillor for Watford borough council between 1983 and 1991, and a feminist, socialist and local campaigner. She also worked in Westminster for 20 years from 1980, as a personal assistant to the Labour MPs Alf Dubs and Willie... Read more »
- Ann Khambatta obituaryMy friend Ann Khambatta, who has died aged 58 of Covid-19, made an impact on many lives through her community activism in London and in Dorset, where she had recently set up a food bank.Ann was born in Northampton to Erika (nee Volkel), a school caretaker, and Tehmton Khambatta, a... Read more »
- Is pornography to blame for rise in 'rape culture'?Analysis: experts split on whether easy access to porn has fuelled sexual harassment, abuse and assault among young peopleThe harrowing reports of sexism and assaults in schools detailed on the everyonesinvited.uk website has fuelled concerns of a “rape culture” in educational settings.The disclosures have raised concerns that easy access to... Read more »
- Britain thinks it has won the gender equality war. That's a bad sign | Nesrine MalikThere have been key victories but a survey shows complacency setting in just as women face a post-pandemic crisisProgress can often be its own worst enemy. After a month in which the nation’s attention was diverted towards the inadequate understanding of the dangers women face from sexual predators, a new... Read more »
- Julia Gillard TikTok interview: former PM says gender equality fight must 'turn anger into action'Former Australian prime minister interviewed by Abbey Hansen, known as minorfauna on TikTok, who turned misogyny speech into viral hitA year ago, former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech was given new life after it became a viral dancing meme on TikTok during the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns.Now... Read more »
Feminism | The Guardian
- A Week In Our Shoes: Setting The Hollaback! Bar
From Hollaback! HQ Hey Hollas, Look who finally decided to show up. Hello Friday. Where have you been??? The Hollas and I thought you wouldn’t show up. Anyway, since everyone is here, welcome to the latest edition of “A Week In Our Shoes” where we keep you up to date... Read more »
- PUBLIC HARASSMENT: LAST WEEK, ON MY WAY…Last week, on my way to a StopAsianHate rally, I was fearful I would become a statistic. On the subway, this guy and I were going for the same seat when we entered the train. I was quicker and sat down before him. Honestly I didn’t know where he came... Read more »
- PUBLIC HARASSMENT: AT A HIGH SCHOOL DANCE…At a high school dance, my purse was taken, put in a toilet in the men’s room, and peed on. I faced public humiliation as well as property damage. But the worst part was the feeling of violation. I didn’t feel safe in my school community anymore. My peers did... Read more »
- PUBLIC HARASSMENT: I WAS WAITING FOR A CITY…I was waiting for a city bus in downtown Portland, OR and a white, youngish male started to harass an older Black female rider who was sitting waiting for a bus. He called her the ‘n’ word and used menacing body language near her. From a short distance I shouted... Read more »
- PUBLIC HARASSMENT: THE DAY AFTER I RECEIVED…The day after I received my Hollaback! training, I went to a Target for the first time in over a year. I had just passed the two-week mark after my second vaccine, and I was excited to be out in the world again. I had some bags to recycle, and... Read more »
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- Happy Birthday, W. E. B. Du Bois!
“W. E. B. Du Bois and his Atlanta School of Sociology pioneered scientific sociology in the United States.” – Dr. Aldon Morris I had the good fortune to see Dr. Morris give a version of this talk a few years ago, and it is one of my favorites. If you... Read more »
- The Mask of the “Middle Class”
I love this podcast conversation with Rachel Sherman and Anne Helen Petersen about Sherman’s recent book, Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence. It is a great source for introduction to sociology courses looking to open up a conversation about differences in social class, especially because it draws attention to the... Read more » - Sociology IRL
One of the goals of this blog is to help get sociology to the public by offering short, interesting comments on what our discipline looks like out in the world. We live sociology every day, because it is the science of relationships among people and groups. But because the name... Read more » - VideoIs Knowing Half the Battle?
We seem to have been struggling with science for the past few…well…decades. The CDC just updated what we know about COVID-19 in the air, misinformation about trendy “wellness products” abounds, and then there’s the whole climate crisis. This is an interesting pattern because many public science advocates put a lot... Read more » - Survivors or Victims?
The #MeToo movement that began in 2017 has reignited a long debate about how to name people who have had traumatic experiences. Do we call individuals who have experienced war, cancer, crime, or sexual violence “victims”? Or should we call them “survivor,” as recent activists like #MeToo founder Tarana Burke... Read more »
Sociological Images
- Masks are a secret Maoist weapon designed to destroy Western civilization or something
I was somewhere around the first paragraph of a post called “The mask’s insidious symbolism” on the right-wing American Thinker blog when the drugs began to take hold. Well, not literally. It just felt like someone had slipped some powerful hallucinogen into my drink because the writer, one Alison Nichols, couldn’t really be saying... Read more » - Win a date with a MGTOW!
It’s fair to say that Men Going Their Own Way are somewhat critical when it comes to women’s behavior. A case in point can be found in a recent posting on the MGTOW subreddit from a guy who was evidently quite furious that a woman on a date with him... Read more » - The best and worst of #IfMenWerePutInCharge
So this hashtag popped up on Twitter today, a deliberately ironic poke at gender inequality (I asssume). There were a variety of reactions — some funny, some not-so-funny, and some that seemed to have floated in from another dimension. Some used the hastag — as I think it was intended... Read more » - They’ll upvote pretty much anything in the MGTOW subreddit
For example, see this post in which a MGTOW-friendly Redditor waxes rhapsodic about … his washing machine. (Or, as he accidently calls it in his headline, his “machine machine.”) I’ve read through this several times to see if I’m missing some important subtext but I can’t find any. If he... Read more » - White ladies! Don’t mess up your chance of becoming a TradWife by wantonly offering your precious body to men, founder of WhiteDate.net warns
WhiteDate.net, a dating site for the melanin-deprived, is apparently suffering from a serious woman shortage — with only one gross racist woman for every dozen gross racist men. But Liv Heide, the site founder, warns white women that even such a lopsided ratio doesn’t mean that the women on the... Read more »
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- Is it enough if a person in a position of responsibility apologises for an offensive joke?
Steve Reddy Liverpool Domestic Abuse Strategic Lead and mother-in-law jokes about women’s suspicious deaths Steve Reddy, Director of Liverpool City Council Children & Young People Services and Domestic Abuse Strategic Lead tweeted the following ‘joke’: “Friday [clown face emoji]. Mrs R still angry with me because I didn’t open the... Read more » - Counting Dead Women is a project about women killed by menMy name is Karen Ingala Smith and I prioritise women. I prioritise the well-being of women who have been subjected to men’s violence. I try to make sure I see the women that many others disregard. I’d like to contribute to ending men’s violence against women and girls. If I... Read more »
- 2021At least 39 UK women have been killed by men (or where a man is the principal suspect) so far in 2021: 4 January 2021: Eileen Dean, 93, was found badly injured on her bed in a care home in South London. She had suffered injuries to her head and... Read more »
- Trauma-Informed Services for Women Subjected to Men’s Violence Must be Single-Sex ServicesFor many women and girls, the boundaries between domestic and sexual violence and abuse, are very much blurred. For some this abuse includes prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation too. It’s not unusual for women who’ve been subjected to men’s violence to develop a trauma response. These sometimes develop... Read more »
- Why I was rejected for Labour Party membership and my response
Three months after applying to (re)join the Labour Party, my application was rejected. Another three months later, they told me why.... Read more »
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- ● Religion is women's enemy. Do not defend or rationalise it.
submitted by /u/MistWeaver80 [link] [comments]... Read more » - ● ‘Marry your rapist’ laws in 20 countries still allow perpetrators to escape justice | Women's rights and gender equality
submitted by /u/poopatine [link] [comments]... Read more » - ● Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17 2021There has been an epidemic of severe maternal morbidity and infant deaths, but this is the first time the White House has recognized Black Maternal Health Week. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/black-maternal-health-kamala-harris.html Black Women Are More Likely To Die During Childbirth (2-3 times more compared to WW) Underlying Health Conditions Make Pregnancy More Risky... Read more »
- ● What is a feminist? - poetry
Just calling yourself a feminist often means you’re immediately stereotyped as a ‘bra-burning’ anti-male person but a true feminist believes in and works towards equality, for ALL. The first half of this poem plays with some of the stereotypes of feminists while the second half examines what it truly means... Read more »
Feminism - “the personal is political”
- ● “We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Turns Gamergate into Experimental Fiction
gamergate Samantha Riedel Photo credit: Joshua Hoehne/Unsplash I was a couple dozen pages into A.E. Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, when I identified the source of the unease I’d been feeling: It was coming from the book’s narration. The book is told in the first person plural,... Read more » - VideoBotch Goddess
Turning 20 Christine Estima Colin Firth as Mark, left, Renée Zellweger as Bridget, and Hugh Grant as Daniel in Bridget Jones’s Diary (Photo credit: Miramax) In the 20 years since Bridget Jones’s Diary made its big screen debut, there has been one infamous line from the Pride & Prejudice-inspired rom-com... Read more » - Quid Pro No
The Power Issue Good Girls Joshunda Sanders Regina King as Sister Knight in Watchmen (Illustration by Anita Hatchett) Recent representations of women on television have reset gender hierarchies centered around cishet male desire. Since #MeToo brought a reckoning to multiple industries, the sexuality of female characters has been deprioritized and... Read more » - Luxury Fashion Won’t End Fatphobia
Andréa Becker Lena Dunham poses in 11 Honoré (Photo credit: Instagram/Lena Dunham) The pandemic has been a wild ride for fatphobia. From weight requirements that determine which COVID-19 patients get access to lifesaving care to constant messaging about how to avoid gaining weight during lockdown, the past year turned up... Read more » - Ramona Taught Me
Stephanie Buschardt Ramona Quimby in 2013 (Illustration by Jacqueline Rogers) When I reminisce on my formative years, there’s one memory that always overshadows the others: when I got my first (and only) zero on a test. I was talking during the test, but I was also an overactive second grader... Read more »
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- ● States Must Prioritize Incarcerated People for the Vaccine, Before It’s Too LateThe 2.3 million people locked in the 6,000 correctional facilities around the country are our family members. They are our spouses, our children and our parents. They are human. Their care must be prioritized. The post States Must Prioritize Incarcerated People for the Vaccine, Before It’s Too Late appeared first... Read more »
- ● Putting Poor Black Mothers Front and CenterAlmost 50 years after its founding, Ms. is continuing its commitment to inclusive feminism with a new series called Front and Center—featuring pieces written by the women of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust. The program provides more than 100 Black mothers living in extreme poverty in Jackson, Miss., a guaranteed income... Read more »
- ● Feminists Call on Senate to Finally Confirm Kristen ClarkeKristen Clarke, Biden’s nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, is tied up in a needlessly long confirmation process. Feminist organizations have united to call for Senate confirmation of Kristen Clarke for DOJ, saying her "nomination comes at a crucial time."... Read more »
- Who Killed George Floyd? Hidden Truths About Midwestern Racism“In many ways, Minnesota and Wisconsin have become the new south. The disparities we're seeing rival anything in the Jim Crow era.” This article is the first installment in a three-part series that asks what can we learn from officer-involved killings, which on their own can appear isolated and disconnected... Read more »
- Keeping Score: Gun Violence an “International Embarrassment”; Honoring Black Maternal Health Week; Biden Explores Court ExpansionIn every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement's many milestones. We're Keeping Score online, too—in in this biweekly round-up. This week: Delta, MLB and more condemn voter suppression bills;... Read more »
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- ● States Must Prioritize Incarcerated People for the Vaccine, Before It’s Too LateThe 2.3 million people locked in the 6,000 correctional facilities around the country are our family members. They are our spouses, our children and our parents. They are human. Their care must be prioritized. The post States Must Prioritize Incarcerated People for the Vaccine, Before It’s Too Late appeared first... Read more »
- ● Putting Poor Black Mothers Front and CenterAlmost 50 years after its founding, Ms. is continuing its commitment to inclusive feminism with a new series called Front and Center—featuring pieces written by the women of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust. The program provides more than 100 Black mothers living in extreme poverty in Jackson, Miss., a guaranteed income... Read more »
- ● Feminists Call on Senate to Finally Confirm Kristen ClarkeKristen Clarke, Biden’s nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, is tied up in a needlessly long confirmation process. Feminist organizations have united to call for Senate confirmation of Kristen Clarke for DOJ, saying her "nomination comes at a crucial time."... Read more »
- Who Killed George Floyd? Hidden Truths About Midwestern Racism“In many ways, Minnesota and Wisconsin have become the new south. The disparities we're seeing rival anything in the Jim Crow era.” This article is the first installment in a three-part series that asks what can we learn from officer-involved killings, which on their own can appear isolated and disconnected... Read more »
- Keeping Score: Gun Violence an “International Embarrassment”; Honoring Black Maternal Health Week; Biden Explores Court ExpansionIn every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement's many milestones. We're Keeping Score online, too—in in this biweekly round-up. This week: Delta, MLB and more condemn voter suppression bills;... Read more »
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- FM Apr 14: #Abolition WhiteNoiseCollective / #EarthDay Indigenous Climate JusticeTHIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … How do we keep undoing white supremacy & unfixable policing? Cherise Charleswell talked to Zara Zimbardo, co-founder of The White Noise Collective about how the intersection of gendered oppression and white skin privilege interact. The White Noise Collective... Read more »
- FM Apr 7: Get Lit Poets / Missing&Murdered Indigenous Women+April is Poetry Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and Lynn & Cherise talk about what’s in the news. On THIS WEEK’S SHOW : FIRST … we hear a poetry month show from the Archives! Get Lit – an LA based non-profit combines teen voices with the power of poetry.... Read more »
- FM Mar 31: MujeresdeMaiz UNEarthed / Human Trafficking in COVIDIt’s the end of Women’s History Month, and Lynn & Cherise talk about what we’ve covered this month, and feedback from our listeners about their favorite episodes on our Podcast. On THIS WEEK’S SHOW : FIRST … Mujeres de Maiz (Women of the Corn) is raising funds for a feature... Read more »
- FM Mar 24: VAWA / AAPI Histories / International Women’s Day futuresTHIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine :: First … cohosts Cherise and Lynn talk about last Tuesday’s shooting in Atlanta where eight people were tragically killed, six of them Asian women. And how it has further exposed the toxic soup of white supremacy and misogyny. Plus, just how outrageous it is... Read more »
- FM Mar 17: SayHerName Breonna Taylor / Structural Racism / Female RecessionTHIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine :: First … This week we hit the one-year point of the Covid pandemic lockdown, and Cherise and Lynn talk about how so much loss happened over the past year that we weren’t able to mourn. And, we discuss the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death,... Read more »
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- Police Officer Killed 20-Year-Old Duante Wright
On Sunday, a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota fatally shot Duante Wright, a 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop. The shooting happened ten miles from where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the killing of George Floyd. According to the Chief Tim Gannon of Brooklyn Center Police Department,... Read more »
- New Mexico Governor Signs Bill Requiring Paid Sick Leave
- ACLU Files Suit On Behalf of Incarcerated Woman Seeking Abortion Care
- Charges Dropped Against GA Representative Who Protested Anti-Voter Law
- Arkansas Legislature Overrides Veto on Trans Youth Health Care Bill
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- ACTIVITSA! BEV DITISIE FROM SOUTH AFRICAGrowing up in 80s Soweto, Ditsie was immersed in the struggle against apartheid. But she knew racial oppression was only part of the fight – and organised the first Pride march in Africa.... Read more »
- ZOOM UNIVERSITYGGM Los Angeles reporters investigate how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted their education, and how online classes, school administrators, students, and teachers are coping.... Read more »
- ACTIVISTA: HOLLY MITCHELLProfile of the incredible former CA State Senator Holly Mitchell, who recently won a seat on the L.A. County Supervisor in the November 2020 election. This is a big job: each Supervisor represents a little over 2 million people and controls the annual Los Angeles County budget. We talk about... Read more »
- ACTIVISTA: LENEE RICHARDSFor this second in the Activista Series, we talk with SUPER STAR campaign manager Lenee Richards– the woman in charge of Holly Mitchell’s campaign for LA County Supervisor. She tells us what motivates her work…and her view that being authentic & embracing who we are is the key to our... Read more »
- YOUNG, WOKE AND FREE: NATALIEIn the second episode of our new series “Young, Woke, & Free” GGM LA reporters follow Natalie, who organized a Black Lives Matter protest in Burbank, going up against people in her own family who doubted her. “If you know what you believe in, you know what’s right, and somebody... Read more »
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- ● These Chinese Women Vow Never to Marry or Have Sex With Men. Then Censors Stepped In.
A small, fringe group of feminists in China faces a crackdown.... Read more » - Being Afraid of a Gay or Trans Person Is Still a Valid Murder Defense in Most of the US
Virginia just became the first state in the South to ban the use of the “gay and trans panic” defense in court.... Read more » - A Chinese City Has Banned Stripping Newlyweds as a Wedding Game
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It’s that time of the year again.... Read more » - We Need to Talk About the Male Victims of ‘Honour-Based’ Violence
Men make up 20 percent of the victims of so-called honour-based violence, but campaigners say they are being overlooked.... Read more »
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- What’s Current: Investigation into Canadian military sexual misconduct cut short following Liberal motionWhat's Current is Feminist Current's daily news roundup. The post What’s Current: Investigation into Canadian military sexual misconduct cut short following Liberal motion appeared first on Feminist Current.... Read more »
- Here’s why Andrew Sullivan’s proposed ‘truce’ on transgenderism doesn’t work
Last week, Andrew Sullivan published an article proposing a “truce” in the “trans wars.” In general, I am a fan of truces. While in my youth I may have enjoyed warring for clicks or in an effort to appear righteous, these days I prefer some nuance. When I say there... Read more » - What’s Current: Hundreds of Sudanese women rally against sex-based violenceWhat’s Current is Feminist Current’s daily news roundup. The post What’s Current: Hundreds of Sudanese women rally against sex-based violence appeared first on Feminist Current.... Read more »
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- PODCAST: Donna Hughes was denounced by her university for questioning gender identityMeghan Murphy speaks with Donna Hughes, a Professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the Gender and Women's Studies Department who was recently denounced for writing critically about gender identity ideology. The post PODCAST: Donna Hughes was denounced by her university for questioning gender identity appeared first on... Read more »
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- Intersex Kids Are Getting Caught in the GOP’s War on Trans Health Care
Republicans have compared gender-affirming health care to child abuse and Nazi war crimes. But they're more than happy to let doctors perform surgeries on intersex children.... Read more » - This Exorcist Claims He’s Prayed the Gay Away for 500 People in Pakistan
Psychologists routinely encounter patients who have suffered devastating traumas as a consequence of conversion therapy. ... Read more » - Being Afraid of a Gay or Trans Person Is Still a Valid Murder Defense in Most of the USVirginia just became the first state in the South to ban the use of the “gay and trans panic” defense in court.... Read more »
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