More Than A Magazine, A Movement
The campaign “The Humans Who Feed Us” by Justice for Migrant Women (J4MW) aims to humanize the immigrant workers who bring the food to our tables. J4MW shares profiles of workers who migrated with everyone who eats—from well-known restaurant to college cafeterias.
Studies show that seniors still have high rates of sexual desire, but often feel pressure from society and family members to give up sex.
“As a feminist of the 1970s who fought long and hard against sexism, including making the bedroom a level playing field, how can be stopped in my tracks by my own daughters?”
In all the discussion around what’s wrong with Facebook, everyone forgot to ask the generation most affected. The young women who actually grew up online should drive the conversation for how we change social media for the better.
Gen Z’s version of the future will not be the metaverse. It will be the authentic reality in front of them.
At The Jane Club Wednesday, artist and activist Michelle Hartney talked about her collaborative installation fighting for birth control access and the power of reckoning with Margaret Sanger’s legacy.
“It’s so cruel to force pregnancy on people. These letters are testimony to that.”
Too often, policies that are perceived to be “feminine” or unequally benefiting women are dismissed in favor of more “serious” policies. The two infrastructure bills working their way through Congress are no exception.
In reality, policies like the child tax credit, paid family leave and guaranteed income result in better outcomes for everyone.
In partnership with others, including survivor advocates from across the country, I have been campaigning state by state for years to change our own out of date minimum age of marriage laws. The most recent victory in New York was a hard-won battle but I am happy that my home state has finally enacted Naila’s Law and set the minimum age of marriage at 18 without exceptions—only the sixth state in the U.S. to do so. This has made me feel like I can heal.
Operation Period is a nonprofit that has coined the term “menstrual freedom” to embody their message as an organization. This means taking on systems of oppression and injustice that hinder menstruators in hope of achieving a better world.
On Friday, the House passed President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) Act—the largest expansion of the U.S. social safety net since the 1960s. The bill includes elements that feminists have worked literally decades for.
The BBB bill is “monumental, it’s historic, it’s transformative, it’s bigger than anything we’ve ever done,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a press conference. “We will be telling our children and grandchildren that we were here this day.”
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: the benefits of ranked-choice voting for women candidates and voters; Michelle Wu was sworn in as mayor of Boston; could Vermont elect its first woman member of Congress? and more!
My experience in school is supposed to be globally and culturally enriching. It is supposed to give me the tools I need to fight for a more just, fair and equitable world—a society I can make better. But anti-critical race theory legislation and rhetoric are creating conflict that hinders the learning experiences that I am having now.