Feminism

By Sophia Paslaski | – (Otherwords.org ) – The late justice dedicated her career to women and other marginalized Americans, and we owe her the same faith she had in us. By Sophia Paslaski | September 23, 2020 In August 1993, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. I […]

Feminism

Can Turkey’s Feminists prevent withdrawal in name of “Family Values” from Treaty banning Violence against Women?

Global Voices

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – (GlobalVoices.org ) – A website called Anit Sayac (Turkish for “monument tracker”) indicates the number “276” on its home page at the time of writing this story. It represents the number of women who were murdered in domestic violence attacks in Turkey—just in 2020. The counter is updated every day. […]

Feminism

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped shape the modern era of women’s rights – even before she went on the Supreme Court

The Conversation

By Jonathan Entin | – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the Supreme Court announced. Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature.” Even before her appointment, she had reshaped American law. When he nominated Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, President Bill Clinton compared […]

African-Americans

Trump doesn’t Understand History any more than he Understands Epidemics

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has a long history of proclaiming that he understands things better than the people who are experts in those things. When Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control, testified to Congress that mask-wearing is even more effective against Covid-19 than a vaccine is likely to […]

Democracy

Memorialize This! Black Women organized for 19th Amendment, but did not get the Vote

Tomdispatch

By Erin L. Thompson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company. She will be joined in New York City’s Central Park by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, the first statues there of women who, unlike Alice, actually existed. The monument is […]

Crime

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Republican Ted Yoho authorized all Men to call all Women Fcking Btches

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It all started when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) remarked at a virtual Town Hall last week regarding the recent increase in violent crime in New York, ““Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now? The fact that people […]

Epidemics

The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com) – Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, International Women’s Day. From Pakistan to Chile, women in their millions filled the streets, demanding that we be able to control our bodies and our lives. Women came out in […]

Feminism

Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

Navid Pourmokhtari

The history of everyday public resistance on the part of women’s movements in Iran

Elizabeth Warren

Nondisclosure and secrecy laws protect Bloomberg – not the women who sued him

The Conversation

By Elizabeth C. Tippett | – Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a lot of flak at the Feb. 19 Democratic debate for his refusal to release employees who sued his company from nondisclosure agreements. He admitted to having a “few nondisclosure agreements,” after Sen. Elizabeth Warren challenged him over the […]