Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
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Katherine Ronderos links personal, social and political care to show why activists’ wellbeing and security are part of sustaining feminist movements, not private concerns outside politics.
Katherine RonderosMingus writes from disability justice to critique how beauty, normality, and desirability organize bodily value, proposing a liberatory politics of moving toward the ugly.
Mia Mingus / 9 minsPamela Caro reads food sovereignty through peasant organizing and feminism, asking who controls land and seeds - and how recognizing rural women’s work can avoid fixing gendered divisions of labor.
Pamela CaroThis movement case study shows how sex workers in southwest India built collective leadership, challenged police violence and rescue politics, and forced feminist organizations to confront their own moral boundaries.
SANGRAM/VAMP Team / 14 minsILO Convention No. 189 connects household employment to rights over rest, documents, remuneration and access to remedies.
International Labour Organization (ILO)The Istanbul Convention connects prevention, support, prosecution and public resources, making institutional responsibility central to addressing violence.
Council of EuropeMia Mingus distinguishes access intimacy from reluctant help: can needs be trusted without humiliation, emotional repayment or surrendering autonomy?
Mia Mingus / 8 minsEDF’s 2011 manifesto connects legal capacity, community life, sexual rights and leadership, exposing tensions between support and substitute decisions.
European Disability ForumCarneiro connects labor, beauty and reproductive autonomy to ask whose experience defines women’s oppression and how antiracism changes feminist politics.
Sueli CarneiroMia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.
Mia Mingus / 8 minsThrough a fictional roundtable dialogue, this article explores the diverse perspectives, internal tensions, and the profound impact of race, class, and gender identity on contemporary feminism.
Kate M. Ott / 5 minsThe Bangkok Rules address searches, reproductive health, children and noncustodial measures, while leaving open the political question of imprisonment itself.
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