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What’s Very Likely To Happen: The “Roe v. Wade” Endgame Comes to SCOTUS

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by Bitch HQ
December 1, 2021 at 4:25pm
Today’s case is not about one state’s decision, but about overturning decades of precedent.
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Freedom Fighters: Are Better Days Ahead in Palestine?

by Reina Sultan
November 30, 2021 at 10:39am
Palestinians’ will to free themselves from Israeli occupation is as strong as ever. Read more »
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White Lies: How Democrats React to Kyle Rittenhouse's Acquittal Matters

by Madiba K. Dennie
November 22, 2021 at 3:20pm
Encouragements to “just vote” tell a grieving country that we can be saved by continuing to do something that hasn’t saved us yet. Read more »
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Minneapolis Uses Mutual Aid to Fight for Collective Liberation

by Teighlor McGee
November 1, 2021 at 10:47am
The various forms in which mutual aid exists is why it’s so accessible. Read more »
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“This Is Not That Bad”: An Excerpt from Anita Hill's “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence”

by Bitch HQ
September 28, 2021 at 12:08pm
How do three simple words—“not that bad”—become so powerful? Read more »
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SB 8 Is a Reminder That Abortion Is a Disability Issue

by Samantha Chavarria
September 17, 2021 at 10:14am
The subject of disability and abortion law doesn’t stop at hypothetical fetuses. Read more »
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Hyperfocusing on Afghan Women and Girls Isn’t the Feminist Take You Think It Is

by Leila Sackur
September 14, 2021 at 3:43pm
The ongoing cultural discourse around Afghan women and girls is a haunting reminder of American warmongering that co-opted the idea of feminism to push for military intervention. Read more »
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20 Years Later, Muslim Women Reflect on Post-9/11 Islamophobia

by Aaliyah Dasoo
September 10, 2021 at 3:04pm
Suspicious looks. Verbal harassment. Unshakeable fear. Read more »
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“My Body, My Choice” Doesn’t Meet the Demand of this Moment

by Barbara Sostaita
September 3, 2021 at 11:14am
“My body, my choice” is highly individualistic and—in the end—fails to convey the ways we’re bound up with each other. Read more »
Pro-choice protesters perform outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. They are wearing shirts that say “Bans off our bodies” and raising their right fist

What Just Happened: The Texas Abortion Ban

by Bitch HQ
September 2, 2021 at 2:37pm
The SCOTUS decision essentially spits on 50 years of constitutional precedent protecting abortion access. Read more »
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Surprise, Surprise, Andrew Cuomo Was Never an Advocate for Women

by Gwen Snyder
August 24, 2021 at 3:19pm
Abusers succeed because we’re still largely comfortable allowing men to paternalistically insert themselves into sexual misconduct accountability discourse as so-called arbiters, experts, and advocates. Read more »

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