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1. As Iranian Protests For Women's Rights Continue, The Hair For Freedom Movement Has Just Begu: (Feminism); ... against anti-government protestors held in the infamous Evin Prison.#Iran #Evin pic.twitter.com/xNheYaJTn2 — LUKE2FREEDOM (@L2FTV) October 16, 2022 The fight for freedom for Iranian women is far from ...; Created on 24 October 2022
2. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience: (Books); ... to Bergen-Belsen where she was held prisoner – always strategizing how to obtain extra rations of food – until the concentration camp was liberated by the British in 1945. Genuth went on to marry and now ...; Created on 29 September 2022
3. Women's Rights are at the Center of Deadly Iranian Protests. It's About Ti: (Feminism); ... The last mass protests occurred in 2019, following the rise in gas prices. Moreover, the “morality police” who are arresting, imprisoning, and in many cases beating citizens for not abiding by the law, ...; Created on 23 September 2022
4. PSA: Trigger Laws Illegalize Abortion in Texas and Tennessee, More States To Follow Suit: (Feminism); ... time in prison or, according to the Texas Attorney General’s statement, “fines no less than $100,000.” From now on, in Texas, the only reason a woman may have an abortion is if her current state is that ...; Created on 26 August 2022
5. Netflix Movie Purple Hearts Is A Love Story For The Apolitical and Privileged: (Movies); ... troops, and becomes the perfect military wife. She lets go of a lot of her fire to fit nicely into Luke’s world. But what does Luke compromise or sacrifice in the name of love? He goes to military prison ...; Created on 11 August 2022
6. French Abortion Drama "Happening" Shows a Realistic Look At The Consequences of Repealing Roe v. Wad: (Music); ... having had an illegal one, you would face prison time, as would the doctor—or midwife, friend, or unqualified stranger—who performed the procedure. The movie is a harrowing account of what women faced ...; Created on 03 May 2022
7. Trevor Noah Made An Important Point About The Kim-Kanye-Pete Davidson Situation—And Got Kanye Banned from Instagram: (TV); ... found Noah, Noah’s mother survived, and eventually, Noah’s abusive stepfather ended up in prison. Noah spoke out as someone who experienced what happens when the harassment escalates and gave a serious ...; Created on 18 March 2022
8. HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?: (Feminism); ... could be deemed unconstitutional, and, as the idea of "separate but equal" has already been struck down in cases regarding the 14th amendment, so places like federal prisons and government-owned shelters ...; Created on 11 March 2022
9. 6 Things You Might Not Know About Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson: (Feminism); ... “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist to four years in prison. In 2016, a North Carolina man named Edgar Maddison Welch fired his AR-15 rifle into a Washington, DC pizzeria. At his sentencing, Judge Jackson ...; Created on 25 February 2022
10. All-Female Law Firm The Decarceration Collective, Is Fighting To Free The Unjustly Imprisoned of Chicago: (Feminism); In the U.S., under the “three-strikes law,” anyone previously convicted of two or more serious felonies faces 25 years to life in federal prison. It’s a discriminatory policy that disproportionately ...; Created on 21 February 2022
11. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month: (Entertainment); ... feel empowered this Black History Month. 13th (2016) Co-written and directed by the critically acclaimed Ava DuVernay, this documentary on black disenfranchisement from slavery through the prison ...; Created on 16 February 2022
12. Farewell to Ronnie Spector, One Of The Original Bad Girls Of Rock & Roll Who Brought Edge and Flavor to 1960s Girl Groups: (Music); ... Ronnie Spector was as much a survivor as Tina Turner, as she too would be forced to flee a controlling and abusive marriage, in her case to producer Phil Spector, (who would be imprisoned for the murder ...; Created on 18 January 2022
13. Alice Sebold apologizes to man she wrongfully accused of rape after he spent 16 years in prison: (Feminism); ... After each spending 5 to 13 years in prison, they were exonerated in 2002 after another man confessed to the crime. It is also eerily similar to the Scottsboro Boys’ case, who were wrongfully accused of ...; Created on 08 December 2021
14. 10 Female-Driven Holiday Films To Cozy Up With This Winter: (Movies); ... 2015 Tangerine follows a transgender sex worker, Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), as she treks through LA’s red-light district on Christmas Eve night. Fresh out of a month-long prison sentence, ...; Created on 02 December 2021
15. St Vincent Speaks to Carrie Brownstein About Their New Film "The Nowhere Inn," Their Feelings About Feminism, and the Dangers of Believing Your Own Hyp: (Music); ... girlfriend. Also referenced in the film is the story of Clark’s father, who was incarcerated in 2010 for his role in a multimillion-dollar stock manipulation scheme. (His 2019 release from prison also ...; Created on 30 November 2021
16. Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists: (Feminism); ... went to prison in my mind,” Johnson says. “I had to live that life…and he went through nothing.” Child marriage is a human rights abuse that protects predators and punishes girls. It legalizes sex with ...; Created on 12 November 2021
17. R. Kelly, R&B Singer and Producer, Finally Convicted of Sex Crimes After Decades of Allegations and Crimes Against Underage Girls and Boys: (Music); ... in swifter action. The women who accused both Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby were predominantly white, and both men were imprisoned. The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community ...; Created on 28 September 2021
18. Lil Nas X Turns Dolly Parton's "Jolene" Into Haunting and Soulful Tale of Queer Heartbreak, and We're Here For ...: (Music); ... explored everything from homosexuality as a “sin” to sexual anxiety in prisons, redefining what it means to be queer in America today. “[People always say] go where you’re accepted and stuff like that, ...; Created on 23 September 2021
19. "Mi cuerpo, mi opcion": Mexico supports the decriminalization of abortion in Supreme Court vot: (Feminism); ... that currently allow for the imprisonment of people who have abortions, as well as challenging other criminal offenses associated with the procedure. Furthermore, people can now sue the state to have ...; Created on 10 September 2021
20. Black Canary Spinoff in the Pipeline with Jurnee Smollett Reprising Role in the DC Films Sequel. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country Set to Write: (Movies); ... Escape from Spiderhead. Based on the George Saunders short story of the same name, the film depicts a futuristic society in which experiments are conducted on prisoners given emotion-altering drugs; it ...; Created on 23 August 2021

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