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Articles · Nov 2024

Reproductive Rights in the Digital Surveillance Era: When Technology Becomes a Tool of Oppression

Electronic Frontier Foundation & Privacy International

In the post-Roe era, digital privacy has suddenly become a matter of life and death for abortion seekers. Period tracking apps, search histories, and location data can all become evidence for prosecution. This article analyzes how digital surveillance threatens reproductive freedom and how women can protect their digital privacy.

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Articles · Oct 2024

#MeToo 2024 Report: Rates of Sexual Harassment and Assault Still High

Tulane University Newcomb Institute

The 2024 #MeToo report reveals that four in five women have experienced sexual assault or harassment in their lifetime, with 37% experiencing it in the workplace. Despite years of the #MeToo movement, sexual violence remains pervasive. Over 68 million U.S. adults experienced sexual harassment or assault in the past year alone.

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Articles · Mar 2024

The US War on Reproductive Rights Should Concern Women Everywhere

Mariam Khan

In the United States, women's reproductive rights are rapidly being eroded. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, nearly 30 states have restricted abortion access. This war on bodily autonomy threatens not just America, but women's rights globally.

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Articles · Feb 2024

How Feminism Ends?

Ginevra Davis

This article starts from bodily experience to critique contemporary feminism's over-abstraction of 'gender,' exploring the inescapability of the female body, the predicament of gender theory, and the tension between women's freedom and self-exhaustion.

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Articles · Feb 2020

Fighting the Tyranny of 'Niceness': Why We Need Difficult Women

Helen Lewis

This article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.

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Articles · Aug 2019

The Green Wave: Marching towards Legal Abortion in Argentina

Amnesty International

Seven participants recount how Argentina’s green-scarf campaign turned abortion from a silenced personal risk into a mass, intergenerational demand for health, autonomy, and democracy.

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Articles · Jan 2011

The VAMP/SANGRAM Sex Workers’ Movement

SANGRAM/VAMP Team

This 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.