Advancing the Human Rights of Women & Girls
There’s a large and complex cultural history about this. We are at the end of a long process of demonization of witches. Most people have heard of the witch hunts,… Read more »
culturallyboundgender writes: Indeed, the prudishness of the Victorian woman is even supposed to reflect on modern political struggles: she is invoked as a grim-faced, disapproving specter of the past, whose… Read more »
Jessica Valenti for Medium writes: What we are witnessing right now through the response to Kavanaugh — and the slow-roll comeback of various men held to account by #MeToo — is a large-scale dismissal… Read more »
From Old Pics Archive http://www.oldpicsarchive.com/cruel-anti-suffragette-cartoons-and-posters-19-pics/ (ed: lest we forget how men fought women’s empowerment. Has anything really changed?)
Gabrielle Everall for Right Now writes: Guerrilla Girls are a group of artists and activists that aim to expose the inequality that women and people of colour experience in the… Read more »
Eleanor Ainge Roy in The Guardian reports: The prime minister of New Zealand has been met with thunderous applause at the UN for her speech espousing global cooperation and kindness… Read more »
The New Daily reports: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been joined by her baby daughter Neve in a history-making visit to the United Nations in New York. It… Read more »
Peter Dreier of YES! Magazine writes: Less well known (but no less inspiring) is the fact that Keller, who was born in 1880 and died in 1968, was a lifelong… Read more »
Charles Anderson writers for The Guardian: Jacinda Ardern will guest edit the country’s largest daily newspaper on Wednesday as New Zealand marks 125 years since becoming the first nation in… Read more »
The new Higher School Certificate (HSC) physics syllabus for NSW will contain no mention of the contributions of female physicists to the field. Not teaching students about their contributions to… Read more »