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I first encountered the Combahee River Collective Statement in a women’s-studies class, my second year of college at suny Buffalo. We had been reading about divisions within the feminist movement in the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies, and the emergence of a body of thought (...)
The following is a lightly edited excerpt from Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, edited by Breanne Fahs, published by Verso Books.
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, (...)
The likes of Hillary Clinton have tarnished the name of feminism, associating it with neoliberalism and anti–working-class politics. For Nancy Fraser, feminism has to be about overthrowing corporate power, not giving it a female face.
Recent years have seen an upsurge in the working-class (...)
In the weeks after the 2019 convention of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), and in the days after the revelation that members of the 2013 Steering Committee had interfered with, overturned and silenced an independent committee’s finding that an ISO member had committed rape, (...)
The eruption of resistance that first burst onto the scene in the US with the Women’s Marches is part of a global women’s rebellion. Cinzia Arruzza has argued that we are witnessing the birth of what she calls a “third feminist wave,” one that “has posed issues such as gender violence, wage (...)
The reason goes to the heart of inclusive, democratic movement building.
For the last two years, come the middle of January, between 3 and 4 million people have massed in the streets of the United States in an outpouring of raw anger and disgust with the Trump administration. They’ve marched in (...)
Kim Moody’s “Rank and File Strategy” has influenced much of DSA’s approach to labor organizing. To draw out what he calls socialist “class consciousness,” Moody recommends fomenting member-led struggles in unions that advance self-empowerment. By joining “transitional organizations,” or rank-and-file (...)
Opening ceremmony. Candy Brings Plenty second from left. Photo by Friderike Heuer
On Sunday January 21, Portland’s streets were filled by Indigenous women, men, and two-spirited people marching with their allies to honor Indigenous Womxn Warriors, to remember and demand justice for Missing and (...)
At major rallies in Washington, New York, LA and beyond, some said Trump’s ‘disastrous’ first year has left women angrier than ever.
A year after millions of women and men demonstrated in cities around the globe in an extraordinary rebuke of Donald Trump, crowds returned to the streets on (...)
Nicole Colson rounds up reports from the Women’s Marches mobilized to protest one year of Trump—and looks at the debates about building an effective opposition.
“Last year it felt like a funeral. This year it feels like a resistance.”
Those words—from one of the many hundreds of thousands of (...)
THE REVELATIONS JUST keep coming. They began at the top, as actresses charged the powerful Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Louis CK of rape and various forms of sexual harassment. They soon implicated major TV network personalities, corporate executives and (...)
Sexism goes all the way to the top in the U.S., but women have gained confidence from the #MeToo moment to keep up the pressure and hold powerful men accountable.
THIS IS not over.
In one month, six members of Congress have been forced to resign over sexual assault allegations—and that list is (...)
Our writers reflect on how this remarkable moment of accountability can grow and endure.
The Other NRA
By Jane Fonda
Women in every sector of the entertainment industry are working to transform Hollywood in the wake of the Weinstein revelations. The determination is palpable: We will not (...)
“Where we go next depends on how we take — or don’t take — advantage of this moment.”
When strides are made toward equality — as when women and minorities gaining rights and social status — the result is often a backlash. For instance, in response to the women’s liberation movement of the ’60s and (...)
This movement didn’t start yesterday—and it has a long way to go.
Donald Trump’s election represented the violation of many norms of a decent society—I’ll spare you the litany of outrages, which The Nation and others have reviewed exhaustively over the past year, but his treatment of women (...)
Hundreds of protesters hit the streets in Los Angeles on November 12 to protest workplace sexual harassment in the wake the #MeToo campaign that erupted after dozens of women stepped forward with experiences of sexual assault involving Harvey Weinstein. The march, organized by the Feminist (...)
As millions of women around the world held meetings and conferences, rallied and marched to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, many also joined an International Women’s Strike, a Day Without a Woman , that in the United States had the character of an anti-Trump movement.
Attempting (...)
Women of color, trans women, working women—the International Women’s Strike brought feminism of the 99 percent into the streets.
On Wednesday, women around the world gave themselves a day off… from the system. Not that a woman’s work is ever done. But for one day, to mark the International Women’s (...)
Women who are concern trolling the strike seem most interested in persuading us to work with the Democratic Party.
The international women’s strike of March 8 is being put together with the unpaid labor of mostly women-led and grassroots organizations. No sponsorship from businesses, big or (...)
March 8 is International Women’s Day, but this year, it will also be an international day of action in more than 30 countries. Organizers of the massive Women’s March on Washington on January 21 are among the supporters of a call by prominent scholars and activists for a women’s strike that will (...)
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