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Ms. Global: World Leaders Pledge Climate Action at COP 26; Barbados Elects First President; Israel Pushes West Bank Settlements

PUBLISHED 11/4/2021 by and

Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.

This week: Japan’s lower house has fewer women despite its empowerment law; despite disapproval from the Biden administration, Israel will build over 3,000 new homes in the West Bank; Barbados prepares to “fully leave our colonial past behind”; a historic bill in Sierra Leone mandates tat women occupy 30 percent of Cabinet posts and Parliament seats; and more.

We Can’t Achieve Climate Justice Without Gender Justice: A Response to the Glasgow Talks

PUBLISHED 11/3/2021 by and
We Can’t Achieve Climate Justice Without Gender Justice: A Response to the Glasgow Talks

With the international climate talks beginning in Glasgow, the narrative around climate continues to be dominated by governments and corporate lobbies, rather than by frontline communities and civil society.

Without women—especially Indigenous and rural women, whose communities are most affected by climate change—climate justice will not go far.

I Lived in Terror as an Undocumented Youth. Now Second Lady of Pennsylvania, I’m Standing With U.S. Dreamers

PUBLISHED 11/2/2021 by
I Lived in Terror as an Undocumented Youth. Now I’m the Second Lady of Pennsylvania Standing with our Nation’s Dreamers.

We were undocumented immigrants from Brazil living in a small apartment in Queens. As a girl, my mother’s parting words to my brother and me were the same every morning. “I love you. Have a great day. Be invisible.”

Today, I’m an American citizen, the second lady of Pennsylvania and the founder of three nonprofits that support underrepresented communities. But I still know in my bones the terror of living in the shadows.

It’s time for the Senate to step up, pass the Dream and Promise Act and stop using Dreamers as bargaining chips.

Black Feminist in Public: Black Life, Literature and the Black Feminist Imagination—a Conversation Between Farah Jasmine Griffin and Janell Hobson

PUBLISHED 11/2/2021 by
Black Feminist in Public: A Conversation Between Farah Jasmine Griffin and Janell Hobson on Black Life, Literature and the Black Feminist Imagination

On September 25, Black feminist scholars Farah Jasmine Griffin and Janell Hobson took part in a public conversaton about their respective new books, discussing Black literature and the Black feminist imagination.

“When I talk about ‘Black feminist imagination,’ I am thinking of how Black women have been able to articulate the presence of an absence. How do we give voice to silence?”

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Women Must Play a Key Role in Climate Solutions

PUBLISHED 10/29/2021 by

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.

This week: women must play a key role in forging solutions to the climate crisis; Angela Merkel is the only woman head of state to represent a G20 country; Black women mayors lead just eight of the 100 cities with the largest populations; key races to watch in New Jersey and Virginia; feminist must-reads; and more.

Maid’s Crucial Message: Emotional Abuse *Is* Abuse. Is America Ready to Acknowledge It?

PUBLISHED 10/29/2021 by
Maid’s Crucial Message: Emotional Abuse *Is* Abuse. Is America Finally Ready to Acknowledge It?

Maid sheds light on the crucial issue of emotional abuse and coercive control— exposing viewers to the multiple systemic reasons why it takes a victim of domestic abuse seven attempts before she escapes for good.

Alex tries out four powerful words for the first time as she’s packing to move to the shelter: “Emotional abuse is abuse.” She said it to America. Are we ready to listen?

From West Coast to Westminster, Five Feminist College Students on the Importance of Study Abroad

PUBLISHED 10/26/2021 by , , , , and
From West Coast to Westminster, Five Feminist College Students on the Importance of Study Abroad

Five students reflect on the lessons they’ve learned and a unique perspective they’re developing while studying abroad with in a program focused on feminist pedagogies and content.

“We are the surgeons of humanity, trying to repair the damages inflicted by our ancestors while at the same time perfecting our technique so our tomorrow is an improvement from yesterday.”