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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 InternationalIn 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.
02Articles · Oct 2024
#MeToo 2024 Report: Rates of Sexual Harassment and Assault Still High
Tulane University Newcomb InstituteThe 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.
03Articles · Mar 2024
The US War on Reproductive Rights Should Concern Women Everywhere
Mariam KhanIn 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.
04Articles · Feb 2024
How Feminism Ends?
Ginevra DavisThis 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.
05Articles · Feb 2020
Fighting the Tyranny of 'Niceness': Why We Need Difficult Women
Helen LewisThis 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.
06Articles · Aug 2019
The Green Wave: Marching towards Legal Abortion in Argentina
Amnesty InternationalSeven 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.
07Articles · Jan 2011
The VAMP/SANGRAM Sex Workers’ Movement
SANGRAM/VAMP TeamThis 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.