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CBC.caNo plan for sexual health clinic on PEICBC.caUnlike most provinces, PEI doesn't have any sexual health centres. PEI doesn't have a sexual health clinic.PEI doesn't have a sexual health clinic. Via Douglas Braun-Harvey 
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by LAURA BASSETT, Huffington Post
As the only Republican Congressman at a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment on Thursday, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) gave women an unexpected piece of advice: Give your money to Democrats.
"I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault," he told the crowd of mostly women. "I'll tell you this: Contribute your money to people who speak out on your behalf, because the other side -- my side -- has a lot of it. And you need to send your own message. You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help." [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Based on the Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee’s nonviolent protest for women’s rights in Liberia , I started this protest as a single woman in New York, a woman who is horrified at watching my rights being stripped away in this country that I love so much. I can no longer sit back and do nothing. I am beginning this grass roots movement to stand up for my rights, your rights, human rights. Will you stand with me?
Lawmakers today seem to have forgotten who those laws are being made for; seem to have forgotten how many of us there are who vote to keep them in office, or to take them out. How about a friendly reminder?
I stand by and for women’s rights.
By wearing all white, or a white shirt with pink "I support women's rights" on this day, April 2, 2012, I am reminding those who write and pass bills: that women deserve honesty from their doctors - 100% of the time that a fetus’s life is not more important that the mother's that state sanctioned rape is still rape and not ok that it is not ok to charge a mother with attempted murder for a miscarriage that it is not ok to force women to carry a stillborn baby to term that it is not ok to take away the funding of women to receive medical treatment to make a political point that it is not ok to fire a woman because she is taking a medicine you disagree withFor these and many other things currently being debated about in legislature, I stand by and for women’s rights.
Leymah Gbowee said “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.”
Here is a way to start: Commit to wearing all white on Monday April 2. Send this invite to people you know. Find a way to gather with others who are weraing white, the more people in one place, the greater the impact. Call your senators and congressmen and let them know you do not approve of what’s happening right now. Stay informed. Talk about it. Shout about it. Do not stop until they have listened. Start visual protests of your own. Vote. Vote. Vote. Do research on what candidates actually believe and look at their voting history. Stay informed. Vote. Be the change.
Will you stand with me? [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by PAMELA OSBORNE, WKYC Ch. 3
Thousands ofGgreater Clevelanders came together this afternoon to protest the state of Ohio's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Rally-goers said it's about time things become equal when it comes to the opportunity for marriage.
There were more than 200 same sex couples at that rally today, who were ready to enter into the next level of commitment. But the law, as it is, prevents them from doing that. Those who attended the rally say it's a matter of civil rights.
Activists took their message to the streets of downtown Cleveland, for a peaceful protest. They used the steps of City Hall to educate passersby's and advocate for marriage equality. Same-sex couples weren't the only participants in Saturday's rally. [MORE including video] Via Eric Byler
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Hollaback! is an international movement to end street harassment. We believe that everyone has the right to feel safe and confident when they walk down the street.
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The Limbaugh controversy is a perfect example of the complexities of reappropriating, or renouncing, the slur. AlterNet
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New data shows that over the next few decades, professions like law, medicine and veterinary medicine will be predominantly run by women and therefore women are going to outearn men. In U.S.
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Health Insurance "Gender Rating" Charges Women $1 Billion Annually For Being WomenAutostraddleThe disparity in cost exists thanks to a system called "gender rating." You're probably familiar with it because it's the same practice used by car... Via bobbygw
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What Are the Real Drivers of Gender Justice?Huffington Post (blog)Today, I'd like to look at a related question about the true pathways to parity: What are the real drivers of gender justice? Via bobbygw
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High priestesses embodied the goddess, and had ritualistic sex with the ruler of the country to bless him as the caretaker of the people. ... Via IsidoraD
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As social and economic conditions intertwine with the growth of industrialized areas, environmental challenges have become a hot button issue in political arenas. Via Cindy Sullivan, IsidoraD
Stephanie Quandt's curator insight,
December 22, 2014 9:17 AM
Ecofeminism bridges the gap between environmental destruction and women's rights, asserting that oppression of women and nature is interrelated and needs to be acted on together to be effective. The destruction of nature has been linked to the severe degredation of women's lives across all nations, leading to worsening of poverty conditions and all the negative factors that come with that.
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"Having a female body was the factor most likely to render one vulnerable to being called a witch...the truth about the majority of persons accused of [witchcraft]: old, unattractive, disliked, and FEMALE" — Witchcraze: A New History of European Witch Hunts by Anne Llewellyn Barstow
The past few months the GOP has waged a war on women that places them firmly in bed with religious lobbyists, treating women like they are subhuman all in the name of patriarchal religion. N
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by KATE S, fbomb
The International Women’s Rights Collective (IWRC) went to the third annual Women in the World Summit last weekend....
My favorite moments from the panel somehow came together when Shelby Knox (who, despite being one of the younger panelists, was a TOTAL BOSS) responded to the question of why this generation of young women is not as active in the movement as its suffragette and radical feminist predecessors. This was a question I often struggled with; in fact, I used to read about national protests against Miss U.S.A. pageants and riot grrl movements with jealousy. Shelby said that the young women in our generation grew up thinking that they are equal—that we live in a world of post-racism, post-feminism, post-imperialism. But as we grow up subconsciously chafing against glass ceilings and double standards, we internalize our frustration; individual women feel that their lived experience contradicts what they have been told. In her own words, “The most challenging thing for my generation is that we were told that we are equal, and when we go into the work force we hit these barriers, and we think it must be our fault, that it’s an individual problem. My generation’s problem is figuring out how do we get there not only individually but collectively, because the solutions for my generation are not going to be individual.” [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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By Judy Kurtz, The Hill
Susan Santos is a 55-year-old Colorado blogger and housewife, but these days, she’s doubling as a uterus-knitting machine.
Yes, you read that right.
The mom and knitting fanatic is an organizer of a campaign called the “Government Free VJJ Project.”
The goal of the initiative: to knit or crochet a vagina or uterus and send it to every male lawmaker in Congress. ... Government Free VJJ’s website, which comes complete with patterns such as “Happy Uterus,” claims the initiative is aimed at telling America’s men in government: “Hands off my uterus! Here’s one of your own!” [MORE] Via Lynda Park
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My mother, an avid reader, read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. She believed in some of the tenets of feminism, but not all of them.
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by STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is pointing to his mother's history of abusive relationships with men as he pushes for renewal of a domestic violence law that has met with opposition from some fellow Republicans over proposed expansions of its protections. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad
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Look at this sketch closely… My first thought was that this was the agonizingly personal doodles and notations of a woman contemplating abortion. There are lists of check-marked points, like...
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Wall-to-wall naked breasts on the newsagents' shelves, sexist banter from work colleagues, violent sexual-orientated abuse on blogs, physical attacks whilst reporting and broadcasting obsolescence at the age 45.
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In Palo Alto, California, members of the Raging Grannies Action League said that men who want drugs such as Viagra to treat impotence should be required to have strict testing before receiving said drugs.
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by CINDY PEARSON, Guest Blogger,
Feminist Majority Foundation
For the tenth #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the new health-reform law, the Affordable Care Act, or ACA.
Why are women so excited about the ACA? Well, for a start, the law has already started removing barriers to health care and improving services for millions of women and our families, helping us access the care we need to stay healthy.
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"Shit Men Say to Men Who Say Shit to Women on the Street" was inspired by International Anti-Street Harassment Week. It was created by a group of women and m...
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Last night I dreamt of being cloaked and shuffling around in a black burka. This burka covered my eyes and prevented me from seeing anything outside my line of sight. I remember the feeling of being suffocated and restricted as I fought the...
