Content on theory, vision & strategy for feminism, gender, kinship, and sexuality. This includes content about patriarchy, gender roles and norms, oppression of women and LGBTQIA+ people, activism that fights for feminist justice, and activism in solidarity with feminism.
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to…
In the floodplains of northern Bihar, where seasonal migration has long shaped village life and women rarely handled money beyond household survival,…
No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic…
Eighty years ago, an organization named CAREāwhich stands for Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhereāresponded to worldwide hunger in the aftermath of World War…
For the last 50 years, every institution in Chileās public sector has told us over and over again that individuals succeed through…
This is a call to action for men. How can so many of us stay silent in the face of an ongoing…
Pampa de Pocho is a rural area in the province of CĆ³rdoba, in central Argentina, with no piped gas or electricity. Women…
Domestic and Care Work: Labor Without Wages or Recognition Domestic and care work is among the most marginalized forms of labor in…
Just when the world needs it most, the multilateral system is coming apart. The institutional spaces created to confront threats like war,…
Itās been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington ā or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Womenās…
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