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Happy International Women’s Day! Some history of the day, which is more popular and more often recognized in other countries but has finally hit home in the US, can be found here.
Articles of Interest for IWD:
NYT: Three Proven Steps to Advance the World’s Women
HuffPo: 11 Women Who Are Changing the World
Gender Across Borders held a celebration via blogs! They asked all bloggers to blog on IWD.
AWearNess: Equal Rights, Equal Opportunity
Kathleen Hanna came into a music scene in the 90s that was angry, violent, and full of men. She and her bandmates in Bikini Kill, along with the rest of the riot grrrl movement, pushed back against that culture and helped usher in a new “wave” of feminism.
After Bikini Kill, Hanna went on to make feminist dance music with Le Tigre and has kept pushing boundaries ever since. Recently, she donated her zine archive to NYU’s Fales Library as part of its new Riot Grrrl collection. She joins Laura in studio to talk feminism, rock’n’roll, and why she’s hopeful for the future.
“Today, journalists, citizens, and public advocates have no access to reliable data on incidents of street harassment and assault. By providing a platform for citizens to “hollaback” against street harassers, Hollaback!’s bottom-up, crowd-sourced reporting strategy creates a pipeline of data that can be used by advocates, media, and policymakers. This information will be available online at HollabackNYC.com and analyzed in an annual “State of our Streets” report. Hollaback! will leverage the success of HollabackNYC’s citizen journalists, who have been featured in over forty media outlets. The new Hollaback! will deliver otherwise un-reported news to the New York City community.”
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with THE LINE Campaign!
Childless women of all ages are under assault in America. If you’re a teenager, you’re pushed toward motherhood by “moralizers” bent on denying you information about, and access to, birth control. If you’re a women 35 and older, you’ve been subject to a decade of news stories set to the ominous sound of a ticking clock and bent on creating fertility anxiety—if you wait, you’ll be too late. And lately the anxiety peddlers have been expanding their targeted danger zone to include women in their late 20s and early 30s. “Women lose 90 per cent of ‘eggs’ by 30,” ABC news and others informed us recently, and the message was more of the same: get busy!
