Katie Britt proposes federal database to collect data on pregnant people (www.theguardian.com)
Dystopian fantasy? The Handmaid’s Tale is based entirely on real history (www.bbc.co.uk)
A Palestinian woman runs a brewery and beer festival in the town of Taybeh in the West Bank (youtu.be)
The Palestinian brewery is now run by a woman, Madis Khoury, which adds an extra layer of complexity. “Being in a male-dominated country, an Arab country, and under occupation, it’s four or five times harder than anywhere else,” she says.
Women from Haiti Facing New Imperialist Interference (resumen-english.org)
The Haitian people are once again facing imperialist interference in their fate. The island in the Caribbean is experiencing growing violence and systematic violations, control over territories by armed groups, repression, and subjection of the people’s interests to transnational capital. Living conditions in urban and rural...
An Introduction to Catalonia's Feminist Administration (msmagazine.com)
Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, created a Ministry of Equality and Feminisms focused on women's sexual and reproductive rights.
The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations among Women (1998) - Mary Louise Fellows & Sherene Razack (scholarship.law.umn.edu)
Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift (archive.ph)
They could benefit from a diversity of hormones, empathy about their experience, and a frank approach to sexuality—all hallmarks of trans health care.
Abusive Men Describe the Benefits of Violence (voicemalemagazine.org)
Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) (www.unwomen.org)
As the war on Gaza reached its six-month mark, it continues to be a war on women. According to UN Women estimates, more than 10,000 women have been killed to date, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers who left 19,000 orphan children behind. Women who have survived have been displaced, widowed, and are facing starvation. More...
Adriana Guzmán, Indigenous Aymara woman: ‘Eurocentric feminism has a paternalistic gaze, it perceives us an anecdote, something exotic’ (english.elpais.com)
‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills’: American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions (www.wired.com)
A Texas woman is suing the prosecutors who charged her with murder after her self-induced abortion (www.cnn.com)
Feminists in the Ukrainian resistance (www.solidaritycollectives.org)
PSL - Our Feminism Must be Anti-Imperialist! (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2192594...
Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women's health (19thnews.org)
Becoming Monstrous: Yurikuma Arashi and transmisogyny in the school system (www.animefeminist.com)
"Tradwives" offer an alluring vision of-right wing Christianity — meet the people fighting back (www.salon.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/11673394...
France Protects Abortion as a 'Guaranteed Freedom' in Constitution (www.hrw.org)
Yesterday at a special congress in Versailles, France’s parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to add the freedom to have an abortion to the country’s constitution. Though abortion has been legal in France since 1975, the historic move aims to establish a safeguard in the face of global attacks on abortion access and...
Ala. hospital halts IVF after state’s high court ruled embryos are “children” (arstechnica.com)
Anger and uncertainty spread in wake of Friday's ruling by the state's Supreme Court....
Alabama, Iran, or Saudi Arabia? Where abortion laws are better for women (www.haaretz.com)
Why Black Feminisms? - BLACK FEMINIST FUTURE (blackfeministfuture.org)
BFF DEFINES BLACK FEMINISMS AS:...
Podcast - Intersectionality Matters! - 55. Who gets to be a hero in the story of America? [50:56] (pod.link)
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory....
Men benefit more from their looks at work than women do, new research shows (www.cnbc.com)
Study (N=11K;20 years) finds attractive men more likely to attain better jobs & earn more than similarly attractive women. Attractive women had a slight advantage over unattractive women but men saw greatest benefits. For women being attractive is incompatible with stereotypes of leaders. “Women are held to a specific standard...
