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Posted by
Kim on 04/09/2021
“Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of personal sacrifice, militancy, and work by our mothers and sisters.” – The Combahee River Collective The Tradition of Black Feminism The tradition of black feminism stems from
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Posted by
Kim on 04/08/2021
The path for women gaining representation in government has never been linear. When seeing more female representation in our everyday lives, it is easy to conflate these wins with a general trend of increasing representation. The tr
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Posted by
Kim on 04/06/2021
Under the Trump Administration these past four years, the bold advances that women have made over the past decades, particularly those of our Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Latinx, trans, and gender non-conforming relatives, have come under threat
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Posted by
Kim on 04/01/2021
In order to make good decisions, one has to be informed. This is not the case for the vast majority of high schoolers taking sex education classes. It’s a statistic that many don’t want to acknowledge, but it’s a statistic that is true: around 40% of h
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Posted by
Kim on 03/24/2021
“Women have lost so much ground in the pandemic; it could take years for them to recover from the economic stress created by losing their jobs and critical family income. We have to make sure that millions of women and their families do not fall into e
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