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Fabulous Feminism
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You might be used to encountering sexism on a daily basis without really noticing – but if these sound familiar for your relationship, you deserve to have something done about it. Via Deanna Dahlsad 
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A feminist blogger has been censored by Facebook for blogging about periods and the history of menstrual products. Alaura Weaver, also known as ‘Bad-ass Motherblogger’, started an ongoing series of blog posts detailing the history of menstrual hygiene. Via Darla Darling, Deanna Dahlsad
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Staggering, esp. when FB tolerates misogynistic, VAW and other hate-advocating individuals.
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You may have heard my story, thanks to Anonymous who trended #justice4daisy. I'm not done fighting yet. Via Deanna Dahlsad
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 18, 2013 4:32 PM
Astonishingly articulate; astonishingly horrible.
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
October 18, 2013 4:32 PM
Astonishingly articulate; astonishingly horrible. |
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Michelle Orange is the author, most recently, of This Is Running for Your Life: Essays (FSG, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, the Nation, the New York Times, Bookforum, Film Comment, Slate, and other publications. She was born in London, Ontario; her dog, Mercy, was born in Boaz, Alabama. They both currently live in Brooklyn.
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Big data specialist Vivienne Ming has calculated the cost of being a woman or gay man in the same jobs as straight, white men. The numbers are staggering. Via Deanna Dahlsad
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After three days of vomiting, heavy bleeding and agonizing pain, she stumbled into a maternity hospital. Doctors rushed her into surgery where they stopped the bleeding, and repaired her perforated uterus, botched in the first abortion attempt...
Abortion is illegal in Haiti but women and girls are losing their uteruses and their lives as they turn to clandestine, increasingly deadly ways to terminate their pregnancies. These unsafe abortions are leading to a public health crisis in a region with one of the world’s highest rates of unintended pregnancies, experts say. Via Deanna Dahlsad
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 8:31 AM
Is this the world we want, the America we are trying to build?
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 8:34 AM
Is this the world we want, the America we are trying to build?
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 8:35 AM
Is this the world we want, the America we are trying to build?
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Forget Fran Drescher: Real-life nannies, housecleaners, and cooks have long struggled against sexism, racism, and exclusionary laws. Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad
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