PANDEMIC EDITION: Women’s Funding Network Launches “Signal for Help” as Lifeline for Survivors – Ms. Magazine

Learn the simple hand signal that can prevent violence during quarantine

Special Pandemic Guest Blogger: Grieving At Home Alone

Rev. Dr. Barbara Welch, a specialist in recovery from abuse, trauma, and addiction, discusses ways to grieve for your dead loved ones How do you engage in the public rituals of grief in a time of pandemic? when we are at our most vulnerable emotionally and physically, the additional burden of being unable to mark …

Woman and Girls at Risk: How Violence from Climate Change is Gendered

Women and Girls are especially impacted misogyny and social deficits under patriarchy

St. Brigid’s Day, 2020: Fire, Fury and Frauds

Brigid's lessons for turning Darkness to Light

“Speaking Truth to Nonsense: Women are doing the “heavy lifting” in calling government to account”

Whether it’s “Moms Demand Action” or “Yes, We Code”, or the class of professional women in government we have come to know through televised events—Prosecutors, Judges, Ambassadors, Accountants, Attorneys, Assistants, Fact Witnesses, or elected officials—we are seeing everywhere that women are refusing to sit down and shut up. If anything, crises ranging from Climate Emergency …

TODAY IN FEMINIST HISTORY!

Today, in 1917, NEW YORK becomes an equal suffrage state! Read more HERE!

Palestinian Women Farmers Turn Renewable Agricultural Waste Into Energy and Family Income!

African Women Farmers Create Mermaid Art Image from #WOMENSART @WomanArt1 . For more wonderful images check blog at http://Womensartblog.wordpress.com You might be thinking that rural women, women living under occupation, or in dreadful circumstances, really can't make any impact on our global climate emergency---and why would,they even want to, given all they are going through? …

Happy International Day of the Girl, 2019! Ask “Are You More Than a Body?”

Are You More Than A Body? Lots of people seem to think that girls and women are defined, and only valued, by their physical sexual characteristics. This view is embedded in most cultures at a very deep level, both in terms of concrete social practices (veiling, enforced modesty codes, segregation) and within the psyches of …

BODIES! When Change is NOT Your Friend…

Time is running out! Change is one of those ambivalent features of human life. Like it or not, we will all encounter it. Embodiment Means Change As an embodied creature living on a linear timeline, with significant cyclical ‘repeats’, some change seems lovely—another spring! Another holiday! Another phase of the moon!  But other changes are …

SPECIAL TRANSGENDER ISSUE! Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality | Vol 55 | No. 1

Wow! Things are certainly changing in Medieval Studies, thanks to the intersectional approaches of scholars formerly excluded from the field. "WHY would a Muslim (African/ Woman/ American/ Asian/ handicapped/ LGBTIQ/ etc.) want to study the Middle Ages in N. Europe? Weird!", such scholars often hear when they present themselves in graduate studies or at conferences …