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You’re Invited: Celebrate "Project Runway's" Nina Garcia & Help Women Rise Against Violence at Womankind’s Virtual Gal
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(Sponsored)
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... seen with immigrant women or poorer communities. The sole focus on choice did not take into account historical injustices perpetrated against women of color, from the forced sterilization of Indigenous ...
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Created on 14 October 2021
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Dr. Carol Queen Commemorates Activist Margo St. James With a Guided Tour of the Sex Workers’ Rights Movement
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(Feminism)
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... Song and Butterfly are raising awareness around issues impacting immigrant women and women of color in sex work. And Washington, D.C., has myriad organizations centering immigrant, trans, and BIPOC sex ...
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Created on 19 July 2021
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For Centuries, Some Asian Women Have Chosen to Live Communally, Preferring to Take Care Of Each Other Rather Than Rely On Men
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(Living)
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... of Chinese immigrants were more common, locally born women also formed vegetarian houses in Singapore.
In return for work in the house, vegetarian halls offered “care while alive and a funeral at death,” ...
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Created on 17 May 2021
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8 AAPI Organizations To Support Right Now
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(Feminism)
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... and economic justice to all, APEN focuses primarily on Asian immigrant and refugee communities in Oakland and Richmond to “advance solutions to the issues that matter most to them.” Donate here.
Top ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... all kinds of other groups like fat people, disabled people, older people, immigrants, I could go on. But this is a serious problem where we should not be complacent. Just because we have Ellen and Th ...
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Created on 12 March 2021
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Exclusive Interview with Pioneering Educator Jane Elliott: Teaching and Understanding Race In 2020
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(Feminism)
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... justice spaces, she is also well-versed on the persistent forces barring equality for all people. While noting the Trump Administration’s threats to reproductive justice, Planned Parenthood, and immigrant ...
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Created on 16 October 2020
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Is This Fake News?: The BUST Guide to Media Literacy
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(Living)
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... were taken under former president Barack Obama’s watch—not Trump’s—and published in a June 2014 online package from The Arizona Republic with the headline, “First peek: Immigrant children flood detention ...
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Created on 16 September 2020
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High Number of Women in Ice Custody Are Allegedly Being Subjected To Hysterectomies
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(Feminism)
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... Enforcement facility in Georgia, and several detained immigrants.
Horrific. Forced sterilization is a cruel tool of white supremacy with a long, abominable history in this country. We need a Congressional ...
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Created on 15 September 2020
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Bag It Up: Punk Rock Icon Alice Bag Shares Top Beauty Must-Haves
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(Style)
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... and immigrant rights, and toppling the patriarchy ever since. (Maybe you’ve seen her in Penelope Spheeris’ classic documentary The Decline of Western Civilization or more recently as the opening act on ...
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Created on 19 August 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
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(Feminism)
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... Association in 1881 and got hundreds of women to join. The MWSA president, Dr. Martha Ripley, fought for women’s rights in healthcare and employment as well as voting. As Minnesota’s largest immigrant ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
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(Feminism)
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... of sexual abuse at immigrant detention facilities were reported between May 2014 and July 2016. A similar report found that the five immigrant detention centers with the highest rated of sexual assault ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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The Supreme Court Just Struck Down A Louisiana Abortion Law
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(Feminism)
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On June 29, the Supreme Court overturned a law that restricts abortion access in Louisiana. The Los Angeles Times reported that the law was expected to close all but one of the abortion providers in ...
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Created on 29 June 2020
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Let's Stop Naming American Schools After Confederate
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(Living)
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As the United States comes to grips with its ugly history, more and more people are calling for an end to the ways we honor those with dark pasts. Statues and monuments of former slave owners and confederates ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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The Supreme Court Just Blocked Trump From Ending DACA
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(Feminism)
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DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is an Obama-era law that protects immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation. On Thursday, a huge win for DACA recipients ...
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Created on 18 June 2020
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Planned Parenthood Endorses Joe Biden: Here's What It Means for Abortion Right
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(Feminism)
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... not only restricts a woman’s right to choose, but it also endangers those who are lower-income, people of color, youth, and immigrants; all of whom disproportionately rely on Medicaid for their health ...
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Created on 16 June 2020
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Nicole Kang of "Batwoman" talks Superheroes, Quarantine, Asian Representation, and BLM Solidarity: BUST Intervie
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(TV)
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... a source of connection for Kang’s family. Her father, an immigrant from Korea, learned English by reading DC Comics. Kang declared Mary as the “heartbeat” of the show and that she represents not only an ...
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Created on 15 June 2020
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Jeanine Mason of "Roswell, New Mexico" Talks BIG Issues and Proves She Just May Be the New Sci-Fi Queen: BUST Intervie
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(Entertainment)
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... take on immigrant’s rights through the lens of aliens and the supernatural. With season 2 underway, lead actress Jeanine Mason, who has also stared in Grey’s Anatomy and Bunheads, has been busy working ...
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Created on 01 June 2020
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Here Are The Women Winners Of The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes
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(Books)
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This year marked the 104th year of the Pulitzer Prizes, an awards series for journalism, letters, drama and education, among other things, created by Joseph Pulitzer in the early 20th century. The first ...
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Created on 06 May 2020
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Remembering Trans Latinx Activist Lorena Borjas
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(Feminism)
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... doing all they could support transgender Latinx immigrants as they navigated the legal system. The organization’s objective is to assist those in the LGBTQ+ community to cover cost of bail and legal services. ...
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Created on 03 April 2020
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AOC and Yalitza Aparicio Are Fighting for the Rights of Domestic Workers
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(Feminism)
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... provide for her own family. Her personal history has fueled her to effect change for over two million workers across the country, the majority of which are immigrants and/or women of color.
Aparicio ...
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Created on 27 February 2020
