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Author: Michele Sleighel

Michele Sleighel is a former Research Assistant at the Feminist Majority Foundation. She has an MA in Communication at the University of Texas in San Antonio and a BS in PR from the University of Texas in Austin and is very proud of her El Paso roots. Find her on Twitter @MicheleSleighel
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Uncovering the Story Left Out of Our Healthcare Discourse

Michele Sleighel

A new study points to an absence of resources, the accumulation of excess wealth, intergenerational trauma and violence against women as factors contributing to women of color experiencing “far worse health and economic outcomes than their white counterparts.”

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Attorneys Representing Anti-Abortion Extremists Refuse to Stop Endangering Providers

Michele Sleighel

Attorneys representing anti-abortion extremists in California ignored a court-mandated gag order on the release of illegally obtained footage of doctors and clinic staff—putting providers at risk for harassment, threats and violence.

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Advocates Are Fighting Baseless Anti-Abortion Laws State by State

Michele Sleighel

Advocates are shining a light on anti-abortion laws that fly in the face of science and reason. And state by state, they’re fighting to stop them, once and for all.

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Going on the Offensive for Abortion Rights

Michele Sleighel

Advocates in red states are switching gears. They’re not just pushing back against anti-choice laws—they’re proposing pro-choice legislation of their own.

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Wendy Carrillo Wants the Future to Be Female—and Unapologetic

Michele Sleighel

Wendy Carrillo didn’t win the election for California’s 34th District Congressional seat—but she captured the spirit of her community.

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Alt-Right Commentator Laughs About Rape, Disability, Cancer at Campus Appearance

Michele Sleighel

The complex lives of women are no laughing matter, and neither is their suffering.

  • Arts & Entertainment

The Film Festival that Fights Back

Michele Sleighel

Now over a decade running, the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival has a revived meaning in the new political climate.

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Global Solidarity: Exploring the Roots of Today’s Women’s Strike

Michele Sleighel

Women from 49 countries are part of a Women’s Strike today against violence addressed at women physically, economically, verbally and morally.

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Braids Across Borders: How Women in El Paso are Fighting Back on Inauguration Day

Michele Sleighel

While President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office on Friday, 50 women from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez will stand back to back on the Paso del Norte International Bridge and braid their hair together in an act of solidarity.

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Q&A: Meet the Vinyl Club Resisting Patriarchy One Record at a Time

Michele Sleighel

The Chulita Vinyl Club is a three-year-old multi-city collective centering women of color—and celebrating their culture as an act of resistance.

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