- 41. 100 Indigenous Women Are Suing The Canadian Government Over Forced Sterilization
- (Feminism)
- Forced sterilization may sound like a draconian tactic from the distant, prejudiced past, but for Indigenous women in the US and Canada, it is very much a reality. In an article for Vice published ...
- Created on 16 September 2019
- 42. Investigation Into Racist Border Patrol Facebook Group Demonstrates How Disturbing Life In Detention Camps Really Is
- (General)
- ... told to drink out of the toilet due to the lack of clean running water. Ocasio-Cortez also higlighted that some migrants who have crossed cannot speak English or Spanish, speaking indigenous languages ...
- Created on 02 July 2019
- 43. Our First Glimpse Of The Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Here
- (Feminism)
- ... support of slavery and his supervision of the forced removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands in the “Trail of Tears.” Trump has also suggested the Tubman’s picture instead be put on the $2 bill, ...
- Created on 14 June 2019
- 44. It’s Equal Pay Day—But Not for All
- (Feminism)
- ... Law Center. The U.S. Census Bureau to not provide wage statistics for Native Women) Black Women: August 22, 2019 Hispanic/Latina Women: November 20, 2019 Asian Women: March 5, 2019 Native/Indigenous ...
- Created on 02 April 2019
- 45. Corita Kent Was A Pop-Art Pioneer—And A Catholic Nun
- (Arts)
- ... activities in her lessons—and studied at night. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1941, and in 1944 was sent to teach at a school for indigenous children in Canada. Three years later, she was called ...
- Created on 11 March 2019
- 46. The Violence Against Women Act Just Expired. Here's What That Means For Native American Wome
- (Feminism)
- ... women is the legacy that this country was founded on. As Amnesty International puts it in their report entitled Maze of Injustice: "Historically, Indigenous women were raped by settlers and soldiers, including ...
- Created on 19 February 2019
- 47. 16 Days NYC Is Shifting The Narrative Around Gender-Based Violence
- (Living)
- ... Black, Indigenous and immigrant people and incarcerated mothers or parents facing incarceration. Did you know that birth control and/or sterilization can be used as a tenant of probation? Or that men are ...
- Created on 07 December 2018
- 48. Frida Kahlo's Clothing, Jewelry, And Makeup Will Be Shown In The US For The First Tim
- (Arts)
- ... Kahlo that has yet to be shared with the US on a mainstream level. For example, Kahlo, born to a German-Hungarian father and a half-Spanish, half-indigenous Tehuana mother, adopted the dress of the Tehuana ...
- Created on 29 November 2018
- 49. #WeWontBeErased: The LGBTQ Community Mobilizes Against Trump's Transphobi
- (Feminism)
- ... continued, “In indigenous cultures all over the world, gender existed beyond the binary and folks who we would call trans today held sacred places in those cultures. Western colonialism drove those trans ...
- Created on 22 October 2018
- 50. Janet Mock: "Unlearn The Things This World Has Thrust Upon You": BUST Intervie
- (Feminism)
- ... [the fight to protect Hawaii’s sacred peak] Mauna Kea really awakened my sense of the linkage between Black Lives Matter, indigenous rights, and all people speaking up and fighting against larger systems ...
- Created on 08 June 2017
