- 21. Bernie Sanders' Plan for Reproductive Rights and the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis is a Breath of Fresh Air
- (Living)
- ... "The plan will be implemented in tandem with a comprehensive, progressive agenda to end racial disparities in our economic, criminal justice, environmental, education, and healthcare systems." To address ...
- Created on 09 March 2020
- 22. Can We Talk About The Convenience Of "Himpathy" for Harvey Weinstein
- (Feminism)
- ... “But I’m innocent.” The charges include criminal sexual assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree; he faces between 5 to 29 years in prison. Upon entering the hearing, the once-credited ...
- Created on 25 February 2020
- 23. What Kesha’s Legal Battle Shows Us About the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors in the Court
- (Music)
- ... Kesha is not even criminally prosecuting him, she just does not want to work with her rapist or the company that supported him. After she lost the lawsuit to try and gain her freedom from Dr. Luke’s recording ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 24. Washington Swears In First Indigenous American Supreme Court Justice
- (Feminism)
- ... recognized tribes. As Montoya-Lewis noted in an interview with The Spokesman-Review, Indigenous peoples are “disproportionately represented on every level of the criminal justice system.” The justice’s ...
- Created on 09 January 2020
- 25. 7 Teen Activists Of Color You Need to Know Who Are Leading The Fight Against Climate Change
- (Feminism)
- ... SINGLE DROP MORE! As we are facing one of the biggest crisis in human history, climate change. Indigenous people , protectors of the amazon and preventers of further climate destruction are criminalized, ...
- Created on 01 October 2019
- 26. Feminist Superhero Mariska Hargitay Opens Up About "SVU’s" Record-Breaking 21st Season: BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known ...
- Created on 27 September 2019
- 27. 100 Indigenous Women Are Suing The Canadian Government Over Forced Sterilization
- (Feminism)
- ... those individuals deemed inferior or dangerous – the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill, criminals, and people of color.” More recently eugenics became coded in the language of family planning. Rao’s ...
- Created on 16 September 2019
- 28. Stanford Sexual Assault Survivor Chanel Miller Wants You To Know Her Name
- (Feminism)
- ... summary of the memoir emphasizes its broad societal impact, explaining that “[Miller’s] story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the ...
- Created on 04 September 2019
- 29. Apparently, Rapists Cannot Come From “Good Families”
- (Feminism)
- ... something done by two or more men at gunpoint, after cornering the victim into an abandoned house, shed, or shack. I think Troiano has watched too many episodes of Criminal Minds, because research shows ...
- Created on 03 July 2019
- 30. A Woman Was Shot Five Times — Now, She's Indicted In Her Unborn Child's Dea
- (Feminism)
- ... woman - especially a black, pregnant woman. Race cannot be ignored when thinking about Jones’ arrest, considering the deliberate measures the state has taken to criminalize black bodies. In the eyes of ...
- Created on 28 June 2019
- 31. How Filmmaker Tamara Perkins Helps Men On Parole Tell Their Stories
- (Movies)
- ... right there with them when they succeed and when they fail. We are witness to their transformations. Today, Perkins uses her film as an educational resource and a tool for criminal justice reform across ...
- Created on 04 April 2019
- 32. Maine Republican Politician Voted Against Free Menstrual Supplies in Prisons Because “It’s Not a Country Club”
- (Feminism)
- In the Maine state legislature, state representative Richard Pickett of Dixfield (take a moment to consider how fitting the name is) just voted against a measure that would have provided free menstrual ...
- Created on 20 March 2019
- 33. "Last Woman Standing" Is A Speedy, Bloody, Feminist Thrille
- (Books)
- ... and seek revenge with her unique skills (she is a computer expert), while Dana would rather shove her traumas into a drawer and forget about them. The criminal justice system doesn’t condone revenge, but ...
- Created on 15 January 2019
- 34. A Call-In To White Feminists About "Surviving R. Kelly
- (Feminism)
- ... our calls for justice, rather than relying on a racist, cissexist, ableist, homophobic, classist “criminal justice” system to help us as a society move past our racism, cissexism, ableism, homophobia, ...
- Created on 11 January 2019
- 35. Cyntoia Brown's Case Shows Just How Broken The US Justice System I
- (Feminism)
- ... abuser in self-defense is sentenced to life in prison. According to an official 2014 Court of Criminal Appeals document (Cyntoia Denise Brown v. State of Tennessee), 18-year-old Cyntoia Brown was convicted ...
- Created on 12 December 2018
- 36. "Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers' Rights" Is A Must-Read For All Feminist
- (Books)
- ... in the UK. Smith is also a part of SWARM, in addition to being involved with the Scottish Prostitutes Education Project (SCOT-PEP), a sex-worker led charity based in Edinburgh, which is working to decriminalize ...
- Created on 14 November 2018
- 37. Let's Talk About Voter Suppression In Georgi
- (Feminism)
- ... she wins, Abrams will be America’s first-ever black female governor. Her platform promises housing equity, accessible ways to vote, and criminal justice reform, according to her website. “In Georgia, civil ...
- Created on 07 November 2018
- 38. Cast A Gratitude Spell For Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
- (Living)
- In a nation where no sufficient structures are enforced for sexual perpetrators, survivors too often receive no justice. Out of every 1,000 rapists, 994 rapists walk free, according to the Rape, Abuse, ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
- 39. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Urge All Americans To Fight Back Against Trump
- (Living)
- ... start seeing politics as a zero-sum game and view members of the other party as traitors, criminals, or otherwise illegitimate, then the normal give and take of politics turns into a blood sport.” While ...
- Created on 17 September 2018
- 40. "Rage Becomes Her" Validates Women's Anger—And Tells Us How To Use It For Go
- (Books)
- ... violence and murder, everyone largely fails women in the criminal justice system with these crimes—Olivia Benson won’t save us IRL. And the media fails us, too. Chemaly begins the chapter “The Politics ...
- Created on 11 September 2018
