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Backsliding Democracies and Women's Rights in the U.S. and Around the Globe 0 niyad Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 911
So Goes Reproductive Freedom, So Goes Democracy 1 niyad Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 1085
Our Abortion Stories: "The Word 'Freedom' Is Hypocrisy When Women Lose the Right To Control Their Own Bodies" 0 niyad Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 924
This Independence Day, the Myth of 'American Freedom' Is More Absurd Than Ever 0 niyad Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 960
The Supreme Court Left the Door Open for Attacks on Emergency Medical Care 0 niyad Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 892
Video Appears to Show Gang Rape, Torture of Afghan Woman in Taliban Jail, Human Rts Activist 0 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 10 1659
Play shown for first time since 1671 controversy 1 RandySF Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 1064
My Daughter Was Assaulted in a Hospital. Body Cams Could Have Brought Us Justice. TRIGGER WARNING 12 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 2116
"Great American Bitch" from "SUFFS: The Musical" (definitely NSFW!!!) 1 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 797
The Future of Gender Justice, Now: An Intergenerational Framework for the ERA 2 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 966
The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 935
Men and Mass Shootings 25 Years After Columbine 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 828
U.S. v. Rahimi Denies Abusers Firearms. The Decision Is an Outlier. 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 692
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Law Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 770
Trump's Lies About Abortion in America Were Particularly Appalling 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 841
Watch Four Songs from Suffs 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 812
Suffs Perform "The March" on TODAY Show 0 niyad Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 650
Four-Year-Old Oregon Report Identifies Missing Native American Women As An 'Emergency' -- But Progress Has Been Limited 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1015
Activists pour red paint down Rome's Spanish Steps in outrage over femicides in Italy 5 jgo Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1926
Women Say They Were Pressured Into Long-Term Birth Control - TIME 1 question everything Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 1328
Cross-post from LBN - Nationwide women's strike expected on Monday 5 BumRushDaShow Jun 2024 Jun 2024 12 1229
Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban 'a betrayal' 1 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 10 943
Randi Rhodes Podcast From Thursday June 13th 2024 0 bdamomma Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 894
On This Day: Elusive Equality in the Equal Pay Act, now 77 cents or less on a dollar - June 10, 1963 0 jgo Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1231
For some incarcerated women, getting ahold of menstrual products is a nightmare 8 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 1586
Former Flappers on dating and marriage in the 1920s 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1470
That pope knows me so well! 4 SarahD Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 1616
Anyone watching the life & murder of nicole b simpson? 6 XanaDUer2 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1473
Seinfeld is right. He never grew up. 9 SarahD May 2024 Jun 2024 23 2133
Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium 1 littlemissmartypants May 2024 Jun 2024 2 2892

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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After a traumatic C-section, journalist takes on the medicalization of birth 3 Jilly_in_VA May 2024 Jun 2024 15 1475
Woman who spends most of her time alone to escape the patriarchy describes her feelings on it 9 Takket May 2024 May 2024 74 4045
No, Harrison Butker, Women Aren't Here to Serve You 4 niyad May 2024 May 2024 12 1826
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signs the national petition for the Equal Right Amendment 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 6 1060
Louisiana's Criminalization of Abortion Care Demands We Embrace Reproductive Justice 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 3 992
The Feminist Majority Foundation hosts the 16th annual Global Women's Rights Awards 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 3 1016
Barbie's Existential Crisis and the Fight for Reproductive Justice 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 5 1052
What Happens When Sex Dolls Can Talk? (DEFINITELY NSFW) 2 niyad May 2024 May 2024 3 1466
Abortion Bans Are Empowering Abusive Men--and Prominent 'Pro-Life' Activists Are Representing Them (trigger warning) 4 niyad May 2024 May 2024 8 1335
A Moral Justification for Civil Disobedience to Abortion Bans 1 niyad May 2024 May 2024 7 1306
To Defend Democracy, We Must Protect Bodily Autonomy 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 8 1047
Malnutrition: The Hidden Struggle of Afghan Women and Children 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 5 1065
Kazakhstan jails former minister for 24 years over wife's torture, murder (trigger warning) 2 niyad May 2024 May 2024 5 1135
Meet the Anti-Feminist Women's Group Leveraging Their 'Independence' to Convince Americans to Vote Republican 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 9 1051
Nigerian activists condemn mass 'forced marriages' of 100 girls and young women 2 Eugene May 2024 May 2024 6 1372
On This Day: First women in Olympics, beginning long road towards greater gender parity - May 15, 1900 0 jgo May 2024 May 2024 6 1208
Saudi Arabia is rebranding itself as a moderate country, but what's the truth? Just ask our female activists 2 niyad May 2024 May 2024 8 1290
Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Silenced No More (trigger warning) 3 niyad May 2024 May 2024 6 1122
Lest we forget... 4 GiqueCee May 2024 May 2024 16 1126
The Constitution as a Homicide Pact 4 niyad May 2024 May 2024 7 1462
Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters 3 niyad May 2024 May 2024 1 1235
Busting Five Myths About Birth Control 1 niyad May 2024 May 2024 7 1060
Australia's Albanese declares 'national crisis' after killings of women (trigger warning) 1 niyad May 2024 May 2024 3 1114
Bringing Domestic Violence Victims Back to Life (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 8 953
The Twin Demons of Maternal Mortality and Femicide (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 2024 May 2024 2 904
more about reduced scale pianos. here's where u can get 1 now. 0 mopinko May 2024 May 2024 3 1091
a matter of equality- reduced size piano keyboards. updated. 2 mopinko May 2024 May 2024 4 1494
🔥As Senator Katie Britt proposes a national data base of pregnant women, a historical reminder of Romania 13 Hekate May 2024 May 2024 29 5142
On This Day: FDA approves "the pill", providing greater reproductive freedom to American women - May 9, 1960 3 jgo May 2024 May 2024 10 1462
On This Day: Joan of Arc transcends gender roles at Orleans, gaining recognition as savior of France - May 8, 1429 4 jgo May 2024 May 2024 10 1542

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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June 24: Strike, Buy Nothing, Wear Red 3 Geechie May 2024 May 2024 10 2052
after Roe fell, Red River Women's clinic GoFunded $1million to move from N. Dakota to Minn. Here is their update 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd May 2024 May 2024 27 1742
Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for 'support' of women's rights 3 Eugene May 2024 May 2024 3 1474
Bangladesh 'Tiger Widows': Ostracised, Blamed for Husbands Death, Superstition; Climate Crisis 5 appalachiablue May 2024 May 2024 7 1776
Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban 1 Eugene Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1703
Alone in a bathroom: The fear and uncertainty of a post-Roe medication abortion 4 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 2058
Firearms and Gender-Based Violence Focus Survey 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1790
Don't Say Rape: How the Book Banning Movement Is Censoring Sexual Violence (trigger warning) 2 niyad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 15 1967
'Over my dead body', say Gambian mothers amid efforts to lift FGM ban 2 niyad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 10 1936
Women's Status Is Declining in the United States 2 niyad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 9 1804
A Thousand Little Moments: The Insidious Loss of Women's Freedom to Christian Nationalism 0 niyad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 1653
The Taliban Leader's Order to Resume Public Stoning of Afghan Women Must Serve as an Urgent Call to End Gender Aparthei 0 niyad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1644
The Terrifying Global Reach of the American Anti-Abortion Movement (trigger warning) 0 niyad Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1588
Gestational Slavery and Human Trafficking WaPo Puff Piece 2 musette_sf Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1752
On This Day: Sanger's birth control league incorporated, evolves into Planned Parenthood - Apr. 5, 1922 4 jgo Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 2021
On This Day: 300 armed women lead Richmond bread riot - Apr. 2, 1863 5 jgo Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 2435
This monument has been missing from the Mall far too long - Blackburn, Hyde-Smith, Lummis, Britt - WaPo 1 question everything Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 1930
Taliban to return to stoning women to death for adultery 12 shenmue Mar 2024 Mar 2024 4 3055
Outrage as UN picks Saudi Arabia to head women's rights commission - DW News 8 TexasTowelie Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 2510
Two book suggestions for women 3 RSherman Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 2247
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