Read why the Women’s World Cup was “nothing short of remarkable.” Meanwhile, this sports fan reminds us that “girls just wanna have fundamental human rights.” If you’re not sure why women’s soccer is a feminist issue, head over here.
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“The real question we should be asking is: Who taught Roof to hate Black people, enough to kill nine of us, in a sanctuary? And can we really say that he is the only one?” — Alicia Garza in “We Were Never Meant to Survive“
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Click here to read thoughts from 18 young feminists from Latin America and the Caribbean regarding “what it means to be a young feminist in a machista society.” 
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This week, Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover brought important responses from Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, among others. And the conversation continued with the hashtag #MyVanityFairCover.
The Lambda Literary Awards announced its 2015 winners this week. Congrats to all the winners and honorees! Continue reading
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Last week, the #SayHerName campaign and report and a National Day of Action for Black Women and Girls highlighted the stories of Black women who have been killed by the police. From #SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence:
We have emphasized that Black women and women of color’s experiences of racial profiling and police brutality are not aberrations or distractions from the central conversation, which features cisgender, heterosexual Black men and men of color as the prime protagonists, but rather are central to our understanding of the impacts of policing on our communities, and to the solutions we pursue.
Nation-wide action included a vigil in NYC’s Union Square and a protest by BlackOUT Collective in San Francisco.
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Activism & Herstory
“We really felt like there needed to be a space that people could relate to that didn’t blame black people for conditions we didn’t create,” explains Garza in “Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter”
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“Don’t you hate when editors use the ‘I don’t know enough writers of color’ excuse to back up the homogeneity of their publications?” Now you can add your info to a working list of writers of color.
“We live in a prose culture, a film culture, a media culture, but I think we should live in a poetry culture; and I want to steal everything back, from everywhere, and put it back in poetry; that is my ambition.” Watch or listen to Alice Notley in conversation with erica kaufman last week at the CUNY Graduate Center.
“But the worst part was that it put the squeeze on all of us who were caught in the middle: women of color and trans folks, lefties, feminists, and radicals who had very deep reservations about call-out culture, purity politics, and the veneration of rage in activist circles.” – Katherine Cross writes about call-out culture and “tone policing” in online activism for Feministing.
“As a perpetual outsider, in virtue of my brown immigrant body, my accent, mannerisms, and the assumptions about my affinities and motivations, I have encountered what are termed as microaggressions both within the classroom and in context of presenting my research.” – Professor Saba Fatima on being a woman of color in academia. Continue reading
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Music “When I didn’t appear in public, I wasn’t a recluse. I was just living my life.” Marine Girls’ and Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn tells The Guardian.
Pixable via Gif allows us to see how many men and how few women will be playing at a music festival near you this Summer. Disappointing to say the least.
Yoko Ono’s “Woman Power” is #18 on Billboard’s dance charts! Listen to it now.
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