“We have spent our entire lives working towards our future, and without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us.”
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Feminist stuff worth celebrating.
We Heart: Youth Punk Band the Linda Lindas’ Song ‘Racist, Sexist Boy’ Combats Xenophobia
“A little while before we went into lockdown, a boy in my class came up to me and said that his dad told him to stay away from Chinese people,” said The Linda Lindas’ drummer Mila, 10, into her microphone. “After I told him I was Chinese, he backed away from me. Eloise and I wrote this song about that experience.”
We Heart: Amanda Gorman’s Eight Reasons to Stand Up Against Abortion Bans
“When the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion after the rape, you know this isn’t about caring for women and girls. It’s about controlling them.”
We Heart: ACLU Dedicates Full-Page Ads to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The American Civil Liberties Union is dedicating a full-page ad to honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who first rose to national prominence as an ACLU lawyer fighting for equal rights for women. The organization will also be dedicating the ACLU Center for Liberty as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center in Justice Ginsburg’s honor.
NYC Residents To NYPD: “We Paid $300M To Settle Your Lawsuits. We Need To Talk.”
A new billboard in Times Square demands that the New York Police Department (NYPD) be held accountable for instances of brutality, and for $300 million worth of lawsuits paid by taxpayers over the past five years. The sign is positioned across from the NYPD station, where officers can see the video directly.
We Heart: Companies Pay Employees to Be Poll Workers This November
In a historic move, fashion companies including Old Navy and Tory Burch have announced that they will pay employees who volunteer as poll workers this Election Day.
We Heart: What Has Trump Done for Women? Amber Ruffin Breaks It Down
Has Trump really done more for women than “any American president in history,” as he claims?
According to comedian, writer and Late Night correspondent, Amber Ruffin: Yes.
We Heart: Senators on Suffrage and the Importance of Voting
To mark the suffrage centennial, the Smithsonian Museum of National History put together a digital exhibit celebrating the Suffrage Movement called “Creating Icons: How We Remember Woman Suffrage” about the history of the suffrage movement and what has been left out of the history books. The tab “Senators on Suffrage” includes reflections on suffrage from women senators.
We Heart: Republishing Novels To Recognize Women Writers
Bailey’s “Reclaim Her Name” collection is re-issuing books written by women who used male pen names in order to honor those women literary giants.
We Heart: Stitching it to the Patriarchy, One Shirt at A Time
In June of 2019, Nina Harris, an undergraduate at Tulane University started Stitch It to the Patriarchy. Today, it has grown into a change-making, women-led-and-run organization promoting sustainability, voting, feminism and progressive change.