issue: Feminism

NOW is the time for change

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O’Neill’s passion about public policy that works for the benefit of women is evident. She talks about every point with a conviction that seems born directly out of personal experience. While much of our conversation focused on economic justice, that’s just one of the six core issues NOW works to change. Constitutional equality, reproductive rights, racial justice, LGBT rights, and ending violence against women are also high on the NOW priority list. O’Neill says the equality for women can’t truly be achieved unless all of those issues are addressed.

Why don’t we hear about women victims of state violence?

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“…those who are most at risk of violence at the hands of the state (or with its complicity) do not make the respectability cut: sex workers, black and Latina trans women, immigrants, queer folks, or just kids who weren’t gonna go to college and were doing whatever they had to do to survive in underground and criminalized economies. Their deaths are thought of as inevitable at best, deserved at worst.

Men Like Women Best When They Listen Listen Listen

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Erin Gloria Ryan writes for Jezebel: “According to new research that confirms that many men are actually less well-muscled versions of Disney’s Gaston, men find women most sexually attractive when we’re listening to them talk.”