Samer Muscati: South Sudan’s War on Women
From the article: “If you run they will kill you, so you just close your eyes so you don’t see the rapes.”
Al Jazeera: The girls of the Lord’s Resistance Army
"Pain at sunrise, regrets at sunset – dawn or dusk, life isn't fair anymore."
Ariel Smilowitz: For U.S. Women, Inequality Takes Many Forms
Smilowitz: By the time a college-educated woman turns 59, she will have lost almost $800,000 throughout her life due to the gender wage gap.
Claire Goldstene: The War on (Poor) Women
Goldstene: A signal achievement of Second Wave Feminism was the extension to poorer women of greater access to a full range of healthcare, frequently with the assistance of federal and state financial support. Across the country, women’s health centers have met a critical need for low-income patients in the arena of reproductive health. But as in so many other areas of social policy in recent years, dwindling political support for public programs is felt most acutely by those most in need.
Chris Hedges: No One Is Free Until All Are Free
Hedges: The sexual conquest of indigenous women, [Edward] Said pointed out, correlates with the conquest of the land itself.
Naomi Klein: No One Saw Anything — Bearing Witness to the Ongoing Catastrophe of MMIW
Naomi Klein delivered this speech on December 18 at The Opera House in Toronto, at a special production of the Basement Revue to honour Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. Listen to an audio recording of Naomi's reading here, with live musical accompaniment from Cris Derksen. Naomi Klein Rabble.ca CommonDreams.org December 22, 2014 At the 9th Annual More
Sonali Kolhatkar: Black Women’s Lives Matter: Film Reveals Little-Known Story of the Grim Sleeper
Margaret Prescod, founder of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, and host of “Sojourner Truth” on KPFK, Pacifica Radio, told me in an interview last week, “If it is one young, white West Virginia student that goes missing, it’s on the news every day. The whole world knows about it.” By Sonali More
Rebecca Solnit: Feminism — The Men Arrive! (Hooray! Uh-Oh!)
Sometimes, men insist “fairness” means admitting that men suffer from women just as women do from men, or even that they suffer more. You might as well argue that white people suffer from racism exactly as much as black people, or that there are no hierarchies of privilege and degrees of oppression in this world. More