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March is National Women’s History ...
by officebss
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on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 03:29 PM PDT
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On March 6th 2023, while watching Sky News , they reported on�a paper entitled “ Growing Pains ”�which was from the Centre for Progressive ...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Mar 12, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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March is National Women’s History Month “I do so want to see the fruition of the work for women in the past century. There is so much yet to be done, I see so many things I would like to do and say, but I must leave it for the younger generation. We...
by officebss
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists...
by jeremybloom
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 09:16 PM PST
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I always marvel at the power of US propaganda and ideology. The most die-hard anticommunist can celebrate Frida Kahlo. Why? Not because they’re OK with her being a Communist. No, it’s simply because they don’t know she was a Communist, and they never...
by skatenerd
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on Thu Mar 09, 2023 at 05:49 AM PST
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Happy International Women’s Day, also known as the day organizations post an “attagirl” image on their social media and move on. The last couple years, I’ve noticed an interesting bit of ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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March is National Women’s History Month The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered – a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue...
by officebss
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on Sat Mar 04, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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Since Ukraine has been in the news so much this week, on the 1-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I thought I’d look into the history of women’s rights in Ukraine. This is necessarily brief, given that I don’t have a whole lot of...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 05:16 PM PST
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February is Black History Month “Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.” – Constance Baker Motley, first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary, as a U.S. district court judge...
by officebss
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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What is the Unfinished Revolution? It is the fact that the overwhelming majority of unpaid labor necessary to keep the world running falls on the shoulders of women in our homes. I am a feminist. I strongly believe that the most basic injustice in this...
by Karen Cox
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on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 08:46 AM PST
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My answer to this question is probably obvious, I would say no. Just because there is a specific thing that we may agree upon, why we agree and how we have come to this position is probably very ...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Feb 19, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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February is Black History Month “Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80% of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world’s poorest continent. It’s not just about empowering women, it’s...
by officebss
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on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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A new paper published in JAMA Psychiatry emphasizes the risk of pregnant people’s mental health, as well as the well-being of their developing fetuses, when abortion is not accessible. Previous research has found that people seeking abortions are three...
by ZawnVillines
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on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 06:27 AM PST
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Jill Filipovic has an interesting piece on a recent survey on misogynist beliefs. The best predictor of whether someone holds various misogynist opinions is party identification, followed by gender. That is, Republican men scored highest on misogyny,...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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February is Black History Month . “We are the ones we have been waiting for, because we live in an age in which we are able to see and understand our own predicament.” ― Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple ___________ . WOW2...
by officebss
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on Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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February is Black History Month “I was born to a mother who was deaf and could not speak. I do not know who my father is or was. The first job I ever had was in a cotton field ... It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a...
by officebss
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on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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This Week In The War On Women: 2/4/2023 Remember MMIW (In some positive news):"Monarch butterflies wintering in California rebound" apnews.com/... LIFESTYLE Research says one of the best things for your mental health is … birds! WA legislators work...
by Angmar
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on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.” – Bessie Coleman, first black woman to earn an international pilot’s license ____________ . WOW2 is...
by officebss
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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Okay, so I promised a detailed take-down of Steve Sailer. I still plan on doing that, but not this week. This week, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I decided to focus on the Right’s misogyny. They want a national ban with no...
by Karen Cox
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on Mon Jan 23, 2023 at 02:17 PM PST
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. WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. “Women can save civilization only by the broadest cooperative action, by taking part in greater numbers in government, by daring to think, by daring to be themselves. The...
by officebss
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on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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