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Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”
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Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”
Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
The pandemic has foregrounded women's exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns.
Jessa Crispin
Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.
Vivian Gornick
This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.
Julie C. Suk
Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.
Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake
Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency.
Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory. Is it possible to merge Butler’s insights with a serious concern for how nonviolent politics can be effective?
Alexander Livingston
Cancel culture can go wrong, but that doesn't mean the objections of far-right trolls and social justice activists should be mistaken for having equal worth.
Whitney Phillips
Instead of deterring sexual violence, criminalization has empowered policing and punishment. To prevent both sexual and state-inflicted abuse, we must embrace restorative justice.
Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners
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