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Published in: 50.50Gloria Steinem: toward a feminist foreign policy
Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of...
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Published in: 50.50Whose work was the inspiration for the first nuke-free country?
New Zealand was the first country in the world to pass national nuclear-free legislation. Marilyn Waring reflects on...
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Published in: 50.50Refugee women in the UK: Pushing a stone into the sea
From personal experience I know that arrival in the UK for asylum seekers does not signal safety, but reform is a...
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Published in: 50.50The Joyce Girl and the mad wives of modernism
Annabel Abbs' debut novel explores the life of Lucia Joyce - daughter of James - whose desire for an independent...
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Published in: 50.50On freeing Kenya's pastoralist communities from discrimination
An interview with Justine N. Leisiano on her work defending girls’, women’s and disabled people’s rights in the...
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Published in: 50.50Artivism: art as activism, activism as art
Art can be a powerful tool for activists. It can grapple with the world and bring about change. This piece explores...
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Published in: 50.50Classifying bodies, denying freedoms
From sex to race, classification is a tool of oppression. Abuse directed at Caster Semenya lies at the centre of the...
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Published in: 50.50Trans women and feminism: the struggle is real
At the centre of the troubled relationship between trans women and feminists are the questions of who gets to be a...
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Published in: 50.50The women of the rivers and forests have feminist debate?
Beyond the reach of the internet and television in northern Brazil, feminist activism in the forests, on the boats...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist Futures: building collective power for rights and justice
In times of unprecedented repression and violence, AWID’s upcoming International Forum aims to transform diverse...
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Published in: 50.50Stay Woke: sustaining feminist organising in an uncertain world
Autonomous feminist spaces must be guarded jealously. They are an important lifeline for feminists to re-charge and...
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Published in: 50.50Young feminist movements: the power of technology
Young feminists are coming of age in a tech-focused and tech-literate world and using technology to organize locally...
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Published in: 50.50A revolution is not a dinner party
Does the word “revolution” mean the same thing to the Kurdish liberation movement and to American leftists who...
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Published in: 50.50Building a bridge to the future: towards a feminist UN
What will it take for the world’s women to shift the UN away from its paradigm of patriarchy and gender inequality...
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Published in: 50.50Is a feminist United Nations possible in our lifetime?
Hopes for a female, feminist UN Secretary-General look increasingly unlikely, but there are creative ideas...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming Black women’s history: the Montgomery bus boycott 60 years on
With police violence against Black communities giving rise to the #Blacklivesmatter campaign, anniversaries of civil...
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Published in: 50.50Self-immolation and asylum in Australia: ‘This is how tired we are’
The slow violence inflicted upon the 28,621 individuals seeking refuge in Australia waiting on bridging visas to...
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Published in: 50.50Should Jeremy Corbyn learn from Hillary Clinton’s education plan?
Student debt is as American as apple pie. But the system is in crisis, which is why Democratic presidential nominee...
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Published in: 50.50Justice and accountability for war related sexual violence in Sri Lanka
As the testimonies of survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka’s long war enter the public domain and the...
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Published in: 50.50Questioning rape in China
China is witnessing more and more spontaneous protests and online discussions against rape and the deeper structural...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job