Tag: feminism
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Drunk with Satisfaction, #FemFuture
I’ve had the desire to create change [work] for the greater good since I was a child. While in college, this need exploded. Boston has that effect on young impressionable students. It’s a hot-bed of intellectual, liberal politics. I volunteered for political campaigns, for women’s organizations, environmental campaigns, Rosie’s Place and AIDS Action Committee. My…
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Happy Equal Pay Day
Are YOU making an equal amount to your male counterpart in your place of employment? I know I am not. I have greater academic credentials and I am licensed. Sadly, I also have boobs. This gap was unknown to me when I was hired. You best believe I am going to bring it up next…
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Thoughts on Stubenville
Yesterday, the verdict for the Stubenville rape case came out. I was shocked and disappointed in the 1 & 2 year sentences the rapists received. Today I am physically nauseated. I can’t wrap my brain around the reaction and create full sentences. I am stupefied. I am disgusted by the rape culture that our society…
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Fired Up for Women
Today the Violence Against Women Act passed. 286 to 138. The 138 that voted against it were all Republicans. Remind me again how any woman can be a member of this party in its current form? Come on Republicans! Take back your party from the right wing nut jobs. They are ruining it for you!…