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Sierra Leone is on the brink of making history. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1326
Meet the New Feminists in Congress Who Are Fighting Back 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1135
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 2: Enlisting Blue State Government 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1100
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 1: Fighting the New Trump Administration's Wave of Extremist Actions 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 925
Government's reproductive rights resource goes dark hours into new Trump administration 5 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 2794
Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1163
Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband 0 Quiet Em Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1150
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. An Origin Story 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1908
🌺Lawrence Tribe (Harvard) & Kathleen Sullivan (Harvard & Stanford) THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AT LONG LAST 2 Hekate Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 2151
Misogynistic Tirade at Fan During Football Game Costs Miscreant His Job and Ban from Stadium 29 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 56 6902
Seen on FB, one of the best responses to self righteous, anti-choice zealots. 30 CrispyQ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 105 10625
Which women do men find most attractive 16 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 4179
Out of Touch on Menopause: Experts Respond to The Lancet's 'Over-Medicalization' Claims 3 niyad Dec 2024 Jan 2025 5 1907
Before the Stopping Starts (menopause) 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1681
'When Power Curdles Into Violence': Escaping the Tradwife Lifestyle 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1398
'The Women Are Talking!' Up Close and Personal With Women World Leaders at the 2024 Reykjavk Global Forum 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1275
'Protect us alive, not dead': how women are starting to be heard on femicide in Ivory Coast 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1170
'Broken': Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza (trigger warning) 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1146
Ms. Magazine's Top Feminists of 2024 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1237
Flying Free: Wicked's Feminist Message 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 6240
The Path to Certifying the ERA Lies With Congress--Not the Archivist 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1070
Girls Join Historic Choir at St. Paul's Cathedral 4 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1614
Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France's Mass Rape Trial 2 Beringia Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1361
USC Release Annual Title IX Data to the USC Community 3 ellisonz Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1561
Thousands rally across the world calling for end to violence against women 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1247
Elections as 'Manhood Competitions': Feminist Political Scientists Reckon With Harris' Loss 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1259
Close the Gender Giving Gap: Women Need More Charitable Support in Wake of the Election 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1096
Human Rights Day - A Day of Mourning for Afghan Women 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1012
Here's What the Biden Administration Can Do About Abortion Before Trump Takes Office 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1589
'Guerilla Storytelling' and Joyful Resistance: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernndez and the DWC's Plan to Combat Project 2025 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 889

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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2025 and Beyond: 15 Feminist Thought Leaders on Building a Better Future 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 862
The Killing of Young Mothers -NYT paywall free 0 Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1307
Rest in Power: A Running List of the Preventable Deaths Caused by Abortion Bans 1 niyad Nov 2024 Dec 2024 5 1217
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report 2 littlemissmartypants Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1336
Final phase for mass rape trial that has horrified France 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 15 1375
Anyone else wonder if controlling husbands oversaw their wives' votes? 10 RandomNumbers Dec 2024 Dec 2024 16 2316
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Advances Healing and Justice for Indigenous Peoples 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 970
Is It Really Your Money? 2 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 10 1735
It's Not the Economy, Stupid 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 4 1065
A Trump Victory Could Reinvigorate a Global Antiabortion Pact: 'Women Are Going to Die' 1 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1116
Christian Nationalism's First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women's Right to Vote 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 1120
Trump's Chilling Promise to 'Protect Women' Puts 'Women Not on a Pedestal, but in a Cage' 2 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 1072
"But What About the Menzzzzzz?????" is the anguished cry after this travesty of an election. 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 821
Misogyny: Origins of men's hatred of women 9 BigmanPigman Nov 2024 Nov 2024 17 3546
Ms. Magazine Podcast "On the Issues" with Michele Goodwin, lawyer from Nov 20 1 Beringia Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1062
Harvard Grid panel explores lack of female representation in athletic product design 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 4 1374
CALL JANE (2022) - You are not alone (Watch the movie.) 6 Ladyhawke1 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 1715
Impactful Female Sentinel Conducts Last Walk Arlington National Cemetery 6 BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 2024 Nov 2024 24 2272
Cry part one, dance choreographed by Alvin Ailey 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1195
Can't help thinking this terrible outcome is the result of deep rooted misogyny. 15 Timeflyer Nov 2024 Nov 2024 31 2867
The Rape Trial That Could Change France - WSJ 6 question everything Oct 2024 Oct 2024 20 1908
US women having abortions at the same rate as before ban: New study 2 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1170
This Is What Autocracy Looks Like: How Turkey's Justice and Development Party Turned Its Back on Women and Girls 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 1007
'The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam': Larry Nassar and the National Nightmare (trigger warning) 4 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1411
Survivors Know Donald Trump's Type (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 948
For Three Decades, 'Remember My Name' Has Memorialized Those Lost to Domestic Violence (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 886
It's just men: Men & violence 4 ihaveaquestion Oct 2024 Oct 2024 21 1812
Using a breast pump at work used to require privacy. Not anymore. 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 1409
Very attractive and very unattractive men show the highest hostility towards women 12 Judi Lynn Oct 2024 Oct 2024 51 11919
S. Korean court hailed for recognising misogyny as anti-feminist hate crime motive 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 Oct 2024 10 1254

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Moms nationwide are leaving gift cards in diaper boxes. Here's why. 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 Oct 2024 25 1491
Over 79 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa raped, sexually assaulted: UN 1 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 1237
We are not going back! 3 Stargleamer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 12 1231
'Will I be next?': Fear haunts Kenyan women athletes after Cheptegei murder (trigger warning violence) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1198
Gisele Pelicot (French decade-long gang rape survivor) is a hero (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1141
How Raising the Minimum Wage Can Narrow the Gender Pay Gap 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1006
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025's Plans to Gut Women's Rights in the Workplace and Classroom 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1156
Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Politics, Patriarchy, Profits and the Presidency 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1208
Ada Lovelace Day. The First Computer Programmer 5 question everything Oct 2024 Oct 2024 7 1710
Top EU court rules gender, nationality enough for Afghan women to be granted asylum 2 Eugene Oct 2024 Oct 2024 13 1264
(W) Blue State Women Not As Safe As You Thought; CA Sues Hospital, Alleged Denial Emerg Abortion 0 appalachiablue Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 1151
Hundreds rally in the streets of Paris to support world abortion rights 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 965
Frances Conley, neurosurgeon who fought sexism in medicine, dies at 84 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 13 1140
How the Nation's First Women's Sports Bar Kicked Off a Movement 1 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 1189
Transgender woman stabbed to death in Georgia amid LGBTQ bill controversy 6 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 8 1734
Women, Your Vote Is a Secret, Says New Guerrilla Post-It Campaign 2 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 1132
Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother's long fight (trigger warning) 1 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 1346
Pay Women Athletes the Compensation They're Due 0 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 794
About time we started hearing in this forum from the women in Ukraine about the illegal ruzzian invasion 0 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 925
PLEASE SHARE:Kamala Harris talks abortion at GA rally: FULL SPEECH 0 RandySF Sep 2024 Sep 2024 1 916
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