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Since Republicans insist banning #trans people from bathrooms and locker rooms is necessary to protect #women, on Tuesday, a group of mostly cisgender women rallied at the Texas Capitol to oppose the latest iteration of the "bathroom bill."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tu-lucha-es-mi-134939910
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To us and for us! 
An ongoing multi media thread to celebrate us strong diverse beautiful sensible fierce hard working caring crafting tinkering introverted extroverted empowering creative quiet loud forward struggling coding dancing fighting wonderful #women
#Equality #Liberation #FemalePower #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensHealth #WomensChoices
🎞️ Be A Lady They Said
Produced by Claire Rothstein
for Girls. Girls. Girls. Magazine
Directed by Paul McLean
Words by Camille Rainville
Narrated by Cynthia Nixon
Post by mini CONTENT
Music by Louis Souyave
#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensWeek #égalité #libération #PouvoirFéminin #Féminisme #DroitsDesFemmes #SantéDesFemmes #ChoixDesFemmes #JournéeInternationaleDesFemmes #SemaineInternationaleDesFemmes
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I was invited to attend the City of #Boston’s 2026 EXTRAordinary Women Awards, hosted by the Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement (MOWA) at the Institute of Contemporary #Art. This event, in its fourth year, honors #women whose work uplifts women & girls in support of the four program- and policy-making pillars of MOWA:
• economic equity
• health
• representation
• safety
The individuals recognized are field leaders whose dedication & vision shape Boston into a diverse, world-class city. 🧵
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The Testaments. By Margaret Atwood.
You are a teen girl, living in Canada after the Christo-fascist takeover of the US, when you learn that your true identity is that of a famously “abducted” US baby; and so you are thrust into a role you never asked for, and have to understand anew what ‘family’ means.
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
Note: sequel to The Handmaids Tale
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #women #sexism #fascism #politics #handmaidstale
Let's start the week with a simple message from UN Women.
Stop telling women how to live their life!
The continued focus of the media on telling women what to do reflects a wide-spread sexism in global societies.... it won't be stoped abruptly, but behind much prejudice is this assumed male right.
So, my friends, if you find yourself telling a women how to live their life ask yourself: have I the right to be offering unasked-for 'guidance' or 'advice'?
It was their home, and they thought it would be their home forever.
This Was Our Shangri-La canvas print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/this-was-our-shangri-la-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #firstfridayArtWalk #oregon #nature #history #mountains #fedigiftshop #spring #women
#SCOTUS remade by #Trump ushers in historic defeats for #CivilRights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving #women & “#minorities”.
The shift ends a streak of successive courts expanding protections beginning with the civil rights era. But the historic nature of the current court is also evident in other key areas of the #law over the 5 terms since the 3rd of Trump’s appointees joined the bench.
"Why Native Americans Wear Red and March on May 5th "
https://nativenewsonline.net/health/why-native-americans-wear-red-and-march-on-may-5th/
"While many Americans spend May 5 celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a day that commemorates the Mexican army’s unexpected victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, Native Americans and their allies across Indian Country will spend May 5 wearing red shirts to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Day."
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My wife has a new article in The Conversation honoring women's power from her perspective as a classicist in time for Mother's Day.
From ancient goddesses to modern peace activists − Mother’s Day celebrates women’s political power
#MothersDay #women #power #PoliticalPower #politics #goddesses #antiwar #protest #war #USCivilWar #peace #PeaceActivism
From ancient goddesses to modern peace activists − Mother’s Day celebrates women’s political power
On Mother’s Day, Americans go all out with gift-buying and dining out to honor the women in their lives. In fact, according to some estimates, consumer spending in the United States on this day is around US$34 billion.From https://theconversation.com/from-ancient-goddesses-to-modern-peace-activists-mothers-day-celebrates-womens-political-power-275805
This consumerist emphasis has long been criticized – including by the holiday’s founder, Anna Jarvis. She started the celebration in 1908 to honor her own mother, Civil War-era activist Ann Jarvis, who founded Mothers’ Day Work Clubs in her native West Virginia.
#MothersDay #women #power #PoliticalPower #politics #goddesses #antiwar #protest #war #USCivilWar #peace #PeaceActivism
I'm reading a book of classical poems by Arab women, and found this gem from some 1000 years ago:
"Leave me alone, you’re not my equal, you’re not a man of the world nor a man of faith, yet you want to own me, you mindless twit."
(by Umm Ja'far bint Ali)
That's it. That's the whole poem.
#poetry #poem #WomensHistory #women #literature #art #bookstodon
#SCOTUS is temporarily leaving women’s #access to a widely used #AbortionMedication untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, #mifepristone, to take effect.
Justice Samuel Alito’s order Monday allows #women seeking an #abortion to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-5cb02123db6e8e5520cd995efc751b82
To protect the public from women's awful #music , the benevolent Islamic Republic requires permits for concerts. And to protect them from #shame for their ugliness, #women in #Iran must cover their heads.
Parastoo Ahmadi violated both laws by filming a #concert ! For this "obscene and immoral content", Ahmadi & crew have been sentenced to flogging plus a work & travel ban.
Please share the concert, so that all know how #obscene and #immoral #Ahmadi really is.
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In these times of despair, here is a hopeful story - “A New Faith”.
Available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #mystery #thriller #detective #women #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #indie #indieauthor #clifi #scifi
Emily Waldorf faced a life-threatening miscarriage.
Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she couldn’t get care in the country’s “most pro-life state.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #Women #Health #Law #Abortion #Medicine #USPolitics
NEW: Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors.
Campaign messaging never explicitly states the amendment would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved only two years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Missouri #GOP #Republican #LGBTQ #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics
Family of pregnant woman who died sues Ken Paxton for wrongful death https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/pregnant-woman-denied-abortion-ken-paxton-lawsuit #Texas #ReproductiveRights #Abortion #WomensHealth #Women #UsNews #Health
"An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln" by Lois Romano. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.
Book description: A new biography of one of the most misunderstood and vilified First Ladies in America. Mary Lincoln was at the center of politics at a time when society’s expectations for women were rigid and circumscribed. The product of Southern aristocracy, she grew up among an influential clan of politicians and elites. Mary’s early exposure to the male-dominated world of politics instilled in her a keen political acumen and a fierce ambition. She steadfastly supported the Union war effort, visited encampments, tended to wounded soldiers, and generously donated money and gifts to refugees from slavery. She was an unconventional, larger-than-life character who dressed too ostentatiously, grieved too publicly, suffered a shopping addiction, and seemed unable or unwilling to corral her emotions, her temper, and her opinions. She also suffered almost unimaginable tragedy and relentless grief.
I've read a few other books and biographies about her, and I am pleased to see this one, with a more realistic and balanced approach, minus an effort to vilify her.
#nonfiction #biography #history #politics #women #books @bookstodon
This is a subtoot.
If you, as a man, find it repulsive or even just weird that women poop, pee, fart, spit, have body hair, have dandruff, menstruate, or otherwise display evidence of existing in a body --
then there is something wrong with you, and this is why she left you.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117516225845738102
The scariest is the woman saying she’d be willing to give up her *daughter’s* right to vote, because she knows she’ll marry “a biblical man”.
Thank God there’s no abuse, sexual or otherwise, by “biblical” men.
If these women want to sit out the next few elections, I’m okay with that. Everyone else, #Vote.
#ChristoFascism
#ReligiousFanatics
#ReligiousExtremists
#Women
#women only please
If you had to pick getting only one of the following from a partner, which would it be?
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Options: (choose one)
It’s time for men to speak up, act
Women are outraged by constant #violence & abuse against women & girls. Are men?
#Predators don’t work alone
#Epstein files, Gisèle Pelicot, over 50 students involved in #Cornell #scandal – hundreds of men knew about #sexual #assaults & #abuses. They did nothing
It can't be left to #women to fight alone
We need more #men calling out #misogyny, willing to stand with women & take action