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Join NOW!Happy International Women’s Day! Why not read some essays if you have extra time today, starting with Dayna Tortorici laying out the reasons for striking today at n + 1. Timothy Denevi ventured to CPAC and got a front row seat to the banality of evil for Lit Hub. J. Malcolm Garcia dives deep into the story of a […]
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That’s the real tangle of women’s labor; it’s too deeply ingrained to the way our lives work for us to properly strike from it.
...moreA grim reminder of one of the reasons we still need things like International Women’s Day: the suggestion that men should take responsibility for not raping women is apparently outrageous. At Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams tells the story of Zerlina Maxwell, who appeared on Sean Hannity’s show to say, “If you train men not to […]
...moreIn 1909, the Socialist Party of America marked the anniversary of a garment workers’ strike by declaring February 28 National Women’s Day. A few years later, on the other side of the globe, a Women’s Day demonstration for bread and peace set off the Russian Revolution. The date has since moved to March 8, but […]
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