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We are deeply saddened at the loss of one of our great leaders, @CecileRichards, but we will move through this moment of collective grief by honoring her memory & drawing strength from her enduring example. (Photo credit: Jenny Warburg)
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Advocates didn’t even have to wait for Inauguration Day to start seeing LGBTQ+ civil rights rolled back.
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RT @MsMagazine: Settling down after a life on the road, the legendary feminist finds contentment and a new mission with help from designer…
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RT @EG10029: "So this community that faces extreme rates of violence...will have to wait longer to have more of their stories told. And tha…
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RT @EG10029: "La gran parte de los medios de comunicación ve a las personas trans en Emilia Pérez, e incluso sus predecesores, como un vehí…
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“From leading massive protests & galvanizing women’s votes in the 70s to steering progress for equal pay & helping the #VAW Act become law, Ellie Smeal forced the nation to not only include women in political discourse but to value them as power brokers & equals.”
Ellie Smeal, president of @FeministFDN and publisher of Ms., was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal—the nation’s second highest civilian honors—on Jan. 2 by President Joe Biden for “defining the movement for women’s rights.” Congrats, Ellie!
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RT @CFWIJ: #Iran: We welcome the temporary release of Nobel Peace Prize laureate #NargesMohammadi from prison in #Iran due to her urgent me…
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RT @takebackthetech: Typically, when two people are in an intimate image or video together, at least one of them knows that the camera is s…
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In 2021, we launched "Unspinning the Spin: The Women’s Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language," a searchable online tool for bias-free words and phrases. Media, we're looking at you:
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“Probation and parole departments are very intrusive... There are places where judges can say that a condition of your probation is don’t get pregnant... Who knows how that’s going to play out.”
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Pregnant migrants lack prenatal care and attend appointments later in their pregnancies than women who are not on the move, so a network of 47 midwives and doctors across Mexico are availing themselves to the women along their journey north.
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The number of anti-LGBTQ bills has been steadily increasing since 2015, when there were 100, which was a record at the time. Every single year since then has set a record.
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2 years after #Dobbs, a majority of the 800,000 women on parole or probation in the US now live in a state with some form of an abortion ban AND have travel restrictions as part of their community supervision, according to @PrisonPolicy.
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This past spring, Brazilians mobilized to stop an abortion ban and guarantee a right that was first secured nearly 85 years ago.
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Over half of each generation surveyed lives paycheck-to-paycheck (56% and 55%, respectively), and 30% of Gen Z and 32% of Millennials do not feel financially secure.
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SB 8, the Texas abortion ban, criminalizes anyone aiding an abortion, so a parole officer might “report me for even asking [to travel to get an abortion], out of fear” for themselves.
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An alarming 73% of LGBTQ centers around the United States experienced harassment and threats of violence over the past two years. And the majority of those incidents were a direct result of anti-LGBTQ politics and rhetoric.
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Whether a woman who needs abortion care gets approval for travel “most of the time comes down to the discretion of the individual [parole or probation] officer, and they don’t have to respond super quickly to requests.”
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In 2021, we launched "Unspinning the Spin: The Women’s Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language," a searchable online tool for bias-free words and phrases. Media, we're looking at you:
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