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With its starchy girl-power message and Meryl Streepish prestige, Little Women is bound to be a hot contender for critics’ awards, Oscars, and Golden Globes. But don’t be fooled: it’s a bad movie.
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A Chilean protest song about rape culture and victim shaming has become an anthem for feminists around the world
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Midge ultimately struck a nerve with a lot of women not because she is “perfect” but because she is, as Roxane Gay might say, a decidedly, “bad feminist.”
At a time when women’s crucial and unresolved unpaid labor in the home is largely overshadowed by #MeToo, loss of abortion rights, and an upsurge of violence against women, it is good to be reminded of this core oppression.
Women across Palestine and the diaspora marched on September 26 to assert that the struggle of women is intrinsic to the broader struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
It’s not enough to settle for having a flat, oversimplified version of feminism on television. The conversation is nuanced and deserves representation as such.
From Ireland comes a collection of collaborative essays about overcoming injustice, rightly valorizing women fighting oppression worldwide.
This is a feminist theatrical. A very political play. If you don't want to go to a lecture about what is wrong with how the US government treats women and minorities, it's more interesting to go to a play.
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