Activism
This Land Is Not Your Land: The Privatization of Public Space in the Trump Era
The move to privatize NPS land promises to serve as a way to justify the privatization of other public assets like schools, libraries, water, utilities, and even pensions and healthcare.
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Intergenerational Resistance: "This isn't any worse, it's just your turn."
“I’m 75,” my grandmother shrugged, calm and utterly unfazed. “I’ve seen worse. The thing to remember is this: if you believe in what you have to say, then you must find a way to say it. This isn’t any worse, it’s just your turn.”
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Six Ways to Take Action This Week
We’re going to have to get creative, and we’re going to have to be loud.
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Body Politic: Marginalization at the Women's March and Beyond
Here’s the thing about unity, though: it cannot be demanded. It must be constructed with care.
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Backtalk: Trump's Toxic First Days & Women's March
Dahlia and Amy try not to lose their minds talking about the first days of the new alternative-facts presidency. Dahlia shares her experience at the poorly-attended inauguration and how the Women’s March in DC was a hopeful act. Then they talk about some of the destructive policies that... Read more »
Beyond Walking and Talking: A post-march postmortem with Portland Women's March organizer Margaret Jacobsen
“We gathered, and that’s great, that’s really wonderful. But now what are we gonna do? What do we do next time?”
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Follow Women of Color: Lessons from the Women's March on Washington
The rally before the march was packed with incredible speakers—Cecile Richards, Michael Moore, Van Jones, Gloria Steinem—but it was women of color, again and again, who brought the house down with their music and songs, with their words, and with their hearts.
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Dispatches from Outside the Women's March
The Women’s March is not only a bold chapter in the continuing narrative of U.S. feminisms, it also accurately documented the problems still unresolved in feminist movements; namely white supremacy, bio essentialism, and ableism.
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What Just Happened?: The Women's Marches
While reports of record-breaking attendance will definitely get under our new President’s thin skin, what happens next goes well beyond letting Trump know how we feel about him.
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Invisibilized Resistance: Our 2017 Writing Fellow in Global Feminism Introduces Herself
Popular feminism universalizes the experiences of white women, and assumes that feminism needs to spread in only one direction—from the west to the rest.
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