- 1. HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
- (Feminism)
- On January 15, 2020, Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, making it the 38th state to do so. As the amendment, which makes discrimination by gender unconstitutional, only required 38 states ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
- 2. Roe v. Wade Doesn't Actually Make Abortion Accessible For Everyone. This Short Film Explains Why
- (Movies)
- ... For example, many states currently allow some health care providers to refuse to provide services related to contraception, while others explicitly allow pharmacists to refuse to distribute contraceptives. ...
- Created on 03 March 2021
- 3. Canadian Judge Challenges Justice System in Case of Indigenous Women Charged with Drunk Driving
- (Feminism)
- ... existing problems in this vulnerable and destabilized First Nation.” The state of the Pikangikum First Nation shows a major mental health crisis. A report by Maclean’s in 2012 ascribed “suicide capital ...
- Created on 06 October 2020
- 4. Virginia Bill Will Finally Ban Sex Between Detainees and Police Despite Claims of Consent
- (Feminism)
- ... According to the bill, at least 13 percent of the inmates have been sexually assaulted in prisons in the United States. While it protects inmates from sexual abuse by guards in prison, the law does not ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 5. Petra De Sutter Is The Highest Ranking Transgender Government Official in Europe
- (Living)
- ... regarding its first transgender Deputy Prime Minister is likely a reflection of the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the country. LGBTQ+ people are fully protected under Belgium’s nondiscrimination laws, and ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 6. UK Government Has Halted Progression For Trans Rights on Gender Recognition Act Reform
- (Feminism)
- ... are a lowered cost and electronic options for submission. The government has stated that they will also open at least three new gender clinics in 2020 to increase capacity and reduce waiting lists. Vice ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 7. California To Allow Trans Inmates to Serve Time in Prisons Based on Gender Identity
- (Feminism)
- ... identity rather than their assigned sex— but only if the state does not have “security concerns” with individual inmates. The law requires officers to ask inmates in private if they identify as transgender, ...
- Created on 28 September 2020
- 8. Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
- (Feminism)
- ... complex and prison abolition has seen a resurgence. While the United States prison system has many faults, perhaps the main point addressed within the Black Lives Matter movement today is the fact that ...
- Created on 16 July 2020
- 9. You Should Know These 5 Queer Womxn Fighting for LGBTQ+ Rights Today
- (Feminism)
- It would be an understatement to say that this Pride month has been a little different: coinciding with a global pandemic and the surge of activism following the murder of George Floyd, Pride celebrations ...
- Created on 30 June 2020
- 10. Don’t Understand #DefundThePolice? Here Are 8 Online Activists and Resources That Might Help
- (Feminism)
- ... police department and now stand as a great example of what defunding the police looks like in practice. Once labeled one of the most violent cities in the United States, since Camden disbanded their corrupt ...
- Created on 12 June 2020
- 11. How A Woman Helped Deliver Over 500,000 Masks To Healthcare Workers: BUST Interview
- (Living)
- ... started to spread in the United States. Klinger called her mom, a nurse in the Bay Area, to ask about how conditions were at her hospital. She didn’t have a mask. Realizing her mom’s situation was widespread, ...
- Created on 29 May 2020
- 12. I Support The Girls: This Organization Reminds Us That ‘Periods Don’t Stop For Pandemics’
- (Feminism)
- ... the United States. Most of these people do not have a place to shelter from the virus, let alone healthcare that can support them if they do contract it. When people do have a place to go, it is often ...
- Created on 20 April 2020
- 13. Elizabeth Warren And Ayanna Pressley Advocate For Reduced Prison Population In Light of Coronavirus
- (Feminism)
- ... — The Appeal (@theappeal) March 20, 2020 Pressley and Warren are urging Trump to use his power of executive clemency – the power of a President in federal criminal cases, and the Governor in state ...
- Created on 24 March 2020
- 14. Watch 100 women protest at Harvey Weinstein Rape Trial
- (Feminism)
- ... I was, not how I dressed. And the rapist WAS you. And the rapist IS you. Its the cops, It’s The judges, It’s The system, It’s The president. This oppressive state is a macho rapist. ...
- Created on 10 January 2020
- 15. The Woman Behind "Reviving Ophelia" Reflects On Teen Girls' Mental Health, Then & No
- (Feminism)
- ... active shooter drills since elementary school. It is impossible to overstate the effect this has had on their feelings of anxiety versus safety and security. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent ...
- Created on 24 September 2019
- 16. Period Apps Are Sharing More Than Just Your Cycle With Facebook
- (Living)
- ... more likely to buy. And women who are pregnant or seeking to become pregnant are likely to change their shopping habits,” the article stated. In her piece for Vox, writer Kaitlynn Tiffany outlines the ...
- Created on 11 September 2019
- 17. Woman Who Was Shackled During Labor Earns $610,000 from City of New York
- (Feminism)
- ... State starting in 2009” with the policy being “updated in 2015 to include the use of any restraints on pregnant women.” Whether or not it is NYPD policy is irrevelant, not only because the practice is ...
- Created on 09 July 2019
- 18. Rally Held For Trans Woman Found Dead In Rikers
- (Feminism)
- ... June 13. So far, over $12,000 has been raised, surpassing the $9,000 goal. In a statement posted by the New York City Anti-Violence Project, who is hosting a rally for Polanco, posted the following statement ...
- Created on 10 June 2019
- 19. Chelsea Manning Jailed Again
- (Feminism)
- ... As I cannot be coerced, it instead exists as an additional punishment on top of the seven years I served. Last week, I hand-wrote a statement outlining the fact I will never agree to testify before ...
- Created on 20 May 2019
- 20. This Woman Was Forced To Give Birth Alone In Jail Cell
- (General)
- ... United States prisons have a long history of neglecting and abusing pregnant inmates and detainees. Many deliver their children alone and/or suffer miscarriages. Jackson described “how she had to crouch ...
- Created on 10 May 2019
