An Homage to Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh [PDF] If you’re asking yourself what in the world “cisgender” (often shortened to “cis”) means, then don’t worry. If you’re not familiar with the queer community, it can sound like an intimidating word, but it’s not! In the way that transgender can describe how someone’s gender identity [...]
Whether you’re reading this from your laptop, smartphone, or tablet, on a Wi-Fi network or 4G network, we all use the internet to connect to the world around us. While the bulk of feminist history has been made offline, in the last decade the juncture between the internet and feminism has become unavoidable. This has [...]
265 trans people have been killed in the last 12 months.* Hundreds more have been assaulted, harassed, and incarcerated because of their gender identity. And hundreds more trans people live in poverty, experiencing very high unemployment rates due to widespread discrimination in jobs, as well as in housing and health care. The vast majority of [...]
Hundreds of thousands of students in the mostly French-speaking province of Canada have been involved in this year’s inspiring Quebec student movement – often referred to as the Maple Spring – which began in February as a response to the government’s announcement to raise university tuition costs by 65% over the next 4 years. Quebec’s university [...]
Well, the vote is in and it doesn’t look so good. As I mentioned in my previous blog, people in NC voted yesterday on a marriage ban. Last night the constitutional amendment that defines marriage as the legal union between a man and a woman passed. Amendment One, or the Defense of Marriage Act, not [...]
Yesterday I was startled by a video posted by a young man in Kannapolis, NC. In the video he pulls out a shotgun and shoots a “No on Amendment One” yard sign while discussing how marriage is between a man and a woman. In the news, a preacher from Fayetteville, NC is urging his congregation [...]
This is a guest post by student Britni Hiatt of Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter I am the President of my university’s Feminist Student Alliance. Though ‘tis the season, we aren’t resuming the tradition of performing Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. Among the issues surrounding Vagina Monologues, I agree that it remains a hegemonic narrative of the [...]
This is Part 3 of a blog series on Feminism and the Occupy movement. Read Part 1: Why Feminists Should Care About the Occupy Movement and Part 2: Why Women’s Economic Issues Must be Central to the Movement. The Occupy movement is an incredible opportunity to be a part of something bigger that confronts [...]
This is Part 2 of a blog series on Feminism and the Occupy movement. Read Part 1: Why Feminists Should Care About the Occupy Movement. Occupy Wall Street, which began just 60 days ago in protest of the growing economic inequality of our country has quickly become Occupy America, as it has spread to hundreds, [...]
This is Part 1 of a blog series on Feminism and the Occupy movement As a feminist activist and an occupier, I have not felt any disconnect between the two roles. I am a feminist because I want to actively work to eradicate the systemic oppression of women and people of color. I am an [...]
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