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Death of indigenous woman who live-streamed abuse by med staff as she lay dying reignites fight for "No More Stolen Sisters"
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(Feminism)
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Content warning: The following story contains discussion of violence against Indigenous women.
Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year old Atikamekw woman of the Manawan community in Quebec. She was a mother ...
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Created on 09 October 2020
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Meet Some Of TIME100's Most Influential Women of 2020
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(Feminism)
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TIME magazine released their annual list of 100 most influential people last night during a live televised event in collaboration with ABC. Of the 100 listed, 54 are women and seven of them grace TIME’s ...
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Created on 23 September 2020
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E. Jean Carroll Can Continue To Sue Trump For Defamation—For Now
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(Living)
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E. Jean Carroll is going to be suing President Trump for defamation over the following months.
Carroll accused Trump of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman in the ‘90s in June 2019. Following the ...
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Created on 10 August 2020
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Korryn Gaines' Death Anniversary Just Passed, And It’s Important To Remember Her Story
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(Feminism)
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Korryn Gaines was a 23-year-old young woman who was shot by the police on August 1, 2016, during an hours-long stand-off in Baltimore County, Maryland. This incident happened after a traffic violation ...
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Created on 06 August 2020
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The Band Formerly Known Lady Antebellum Is Suing A Black Singer For The Name Lady A (And We’re Tired of Performative Allyship)
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(Music)
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Lady A, the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum, is currently suing a Black blues singer, Anita White — who has also gone by Lady A for over 20 years — after they could not come to an agreement over ...
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Created on 09 July 2020
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Arthur Conan Doyle Estate Sues Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes’ For Depicting Sherlock As...A Feminist?
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(Movies)
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The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle, writer of the iconic mystery series, Sherlock Holmes, is suing the upcoming Netflix Original movie Enola Holmes, for depicting the famous detective as yes, you read ...
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Created on 01 July 2020
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Cancel Culture or Accountability? Jenna Marbles Steps Back From YouTube
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(Entertainment)
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YouTube sensation Jenny Mourey, better known as Jenna Marbles, announced that she would be stepping back from her channel after being asked to apologize for racially offensive videos. On Thursday, June ...
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Created on 26 June 2020
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What We Can Learn From "Mrs. America" — And Why The ERA Fight Must Continue
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(Feminism)
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The FX on Hulu mini-series, Mrs. America, shows an intimate portrayal both of anti-choice activist, Phyllis Schlafly, and leading feminists of the 1970s—Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Brenda Feigen, ...
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Created on 27 May 2020
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How Fashion Nova and Other Fast Fashion Companies Are Profiting Off Of The Pandemic
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(Style)
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Face masks. They’re the latest trend. The biggest fashion must have. Everyone’s wearing them, right?
When the Covid-19 epidemic first started to look like it might turn into a global pandemic, people ...
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Created on 22 April 2020
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Welcome to Pulga: How One Woman Bought A Ghost Town And Turned It Into A Feminist Haven
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(Living)
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An enterprising young woman bought an entire ghost town in Northern California and turned it into a laid-back feminist paradise
BETSY ANN COWLEY was nearly 3,000 miles away from home, vacationing ...
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Created on 19 February 2020
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The U.S. Men's Soccer Team Is Rallying Behind The Women's Team
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(Feminism)
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... yet despite their running list of achievements, the US Soccer Federation has not given them their proper due.
The USWNT filed a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit against the USSF last Marc ...
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Created on 14 February 2020
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What Kesha’s Legal Battle Shows Us About the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors in the Court
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(Music)
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On February 7, a judge made a ruling in the defamation lawsuit against Kesha. She ruled that Kesha tarnished Dr. Luke’s reputation when she texted Lady Gaga that he raped Katy Perry. Perry said on the ...
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Created on 10 February 2020
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This Russian Artist is Facing Six Years in Prison for LGBTQ+ Rights Instagram Posts
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(Arts)
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A Russian artist is facing six years in jail for posting LGBTQ+ rights and feminist posts on social media. Yulia Tsvetkova was recently put on house arrest and has been fined 50,000 rubels (or about ...
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Created on 17 January 2020
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Shadow Banning: Why Women Are Pretending To Be Men On Instagram
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(Feminism)
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Earlier this year, Instagram began hiding posts and videos that the app considers “inappropriate” but don’t violate its community guidelines, the HuffPost reports. Instagram neglected to go into detail ...
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Created on 20 November 2019
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Is Michael Bloomberg The Worst Democratic Candidate For Women?
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(Feminism)
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In the wake of Michael Bloomberg’s announcement to run for President, The New York Times is now pointing to the former mayor's history of sexist remarks. From saying that “if women wanted to be appreciated ...
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Created on 14 November 2019
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Two Women Sue James Franco and His Acting School Over Sexual Exploitation
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(Feminism)
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Two women are suing actor James Franco, his two business partners, and his production company Rabbit Bandini for allegedly sexually exploiting women who paid to take classes at his acting and filmmaking ...
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Created on 04 October 2019
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10 Women Sue Disney Over Systematic Gender Discrimination in Class Action Lawsuit ...
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(Feminism)
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Four more women have come forward with gender discrimination complaints as part of a major class-action pay gap case against the Walt Disney Company. According to the Guardian, the new wage disparity ...
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Created on 20 September 2019
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100 Indigenous Women Are Suing The Canadian Government Over Forced Sterilization
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(Feminism)
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... last Monday, writer Ankita Rao reports that 100 Indigenous women filed a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for forced sterilization which occurred as recently as 2018. The lawsuit calls ...
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Created on 16 September 2019
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Good Ole Texas Is The First State To Ban Unsolicited D*ck Pics And We're Side-Eyeing The Other 49
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(Feminism)
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... to myself: which creepy man nearby just forced a picture of his penis onto me? How do I react toward this kind of anonymous harassment? Ya'know, those classic commuter thoughts one has...
Unfortunatel ...
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Created on 11 September 2019
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Two Cops Raped A Teenager, But Won't Serve Jail Time
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(Feminism)
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... r to introduce legislation classifying sex between a police officer and a person in custody as rape in the third degree.
Though the law was passed in 2018, however, Anna herself is not one of the survivo ...
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Created on 30 August 2019
