Toodles, Andy. Route66 / Shutterstock Yep, that’s right. The New York Times has the exciting news: The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note, according to a Treasury official, […]
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According to Advocates, Oregon Women Lose More Than $4 Billion Annually to Pay Inequality
One American dollar. Or, if you’re a woman, 79 cents. Paulprescott72 According to a report released today by the National Partnership for Women & Families: On average, Oregon women employed full time, year round are paid just 82 cents for every dollar paid to men – a yearly pay gap of $8,393. That means, in […]
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Indiana’s Getting Sued Over Its Terrible Anti-Abortion Fetal Burial Law
Donald Trump has advocated (and then flip-flopped) on punishing women who have abortions. Guess what! Women are already being punished by horrible laws like this one! Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons The AP has the latest in purveyors of anti-abortion nonsense legislation getting what they deserve: The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood of […]
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Let’s Discuss Utah’s Garbage New Abortion Law
This is some wackjob Handmaid’s Tale bullshit. KittisakJirasittichai Welcome to peak junk science and grown-lady-infantilizing: Utah’s governor just signed into law a bill that requires women undergoing abortions at 20 weeks* to have anesthesia. Now, sometimes a local or general anesthetic is used in abortion procedures—like, you know, if the patient who is having the […]
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The Abortion Documentary Trapped Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time
An examination of the impact of anti-abortion laws, Dawn Porter’s documentary Trapped couldn’t have come at a better time: The Supreme Court is currently arguing the constitutionality of one such law, Texas’ HB2, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor bringing some much-needed feminist realtalk to a debate that for far too […]
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Sorry, Franck Bondoux, Women Comics Artists Have Been Around for a While. Look No Further Than The Complete Wimmen’s Comix.
In the 1960s and ’70s, female comics artists were turning out pages alongside R. Crumb and Robert Williams, but were alienated by sexism, both on the page and within the culture of underground comics. Fantagraphics “Unfortunately there are few women in the history of comics. That’s the reality.” That was the fallacy used by Franck […]
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Spring is Here, and So Is A Gentle Reminder Not to Harass People on the Street
“If only I could enjoy this low-key Easter egg hunt without being sexually harassed.” Monkey Business Images The cold gray rains abated briefly today, and it was utterly glorious until that awful springtime tradition reared its ugly, misogynist head: That’s right, I’m talking about our old friend street harassment, an unpleasant daily occurrence that seems […]
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In Rebecca Traister’s New Book, Single Women Are a Political Force to Be Reckoned With
Unmarried women have played an essential role in our country’s most important social movements, from the abolition of slavery to current battles over equal pay. Simon & Schuster “Young women today no longer have to wonder, as I did, what unmarried adult life for women might look like,” writes political journalist Rebecca Traister in her […]
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Happy International Women’s Day. The US is Still Terrible on Gender Equality.
There are just three countries with no paid maternity leave law. The US is one of them. Thinkstock Here are just a few things to remember as you celebrate International Women’s Day: • There are just three countries no paid maternity leave law. The US is one of them. • The World Economic Forum studied […]
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POWFest Is the Antidote to Filmmaking’s Sexist Entropy
CATHERINE HARDWICKE POWFest’s guest of honor. On the heels of Sunday night’s Academy Awards—whose stuffiness was tempered only by Lady Gaga’s surprise advocacy for sexual-assault survivors, and by a bedazzled leather jacket worn by Mad Max: Fury Road‘s costume designer—the timing of this year’s Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) couldn’t be better. The Academy’s […]
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You Must Read Rebecca Traister on the Political Influence of Single Women
Simon & Schuster NY Magazine writer Rebecca Traister is one of the best political journalists around. Her commentary is always smart and opinionated, but doesn’t skimp on nuance. You might know her from her NY Magazine piece about sexist sex (really) that went viral in October, or her book about the 2008 election, Big Girls […]
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Eileen Myles Has Written a Very Eileen Myles Defense of Hillary Clinton
David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons #aspirational. Poet, feminist, and longtime genre-challenging gadabout Eileen Myles just came out with the weirdest statement of support I’ve seen since the circus of the primaries began. It’s an unruly scroll in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Though it appears on Buzzfeed (lolwhut), Myles’ endorsement is very […]