Dolores Huerta is a feminist, labor activist, and civil rights leader… and our December 2020 Feminist to Know on The Provocateur.

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Uterish Book Club Picks of the Year 2020

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We love reading!!

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Thanks, It’s the Crohn’s Disease

“The anonymity of my disease has become a very sacred thing when something as personal as my own body is out of my control”

guestGuest AytanahDecember 6, 2020chronic illness, disability, crohns disease, dating, relationships, guest post, guestaytanahComment

Feminist to Know: Haunani-Kay Trask

Haunani-Kay Trask is a Kanaka Maoli feminist scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa… and our November 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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AHQ: How Does the Copper IUD Work?

Greta answers a question about the copper IUD.

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What's the Hyde Amendment?

“Henry Hyde teaches us the hard way that, historically, the barometer for abortion access has been set to what the most privileged can access; this was true before Roe, and it is true in 2020.”

#RepealHyde #JusticeforRosieJimenez

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Feminist to Know: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a U.S. Representative, serving parts of Queens and The Bronx in Congress… and our October 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Vicious, Anti-American, Anti-Establishment, Most Dangerous: A Conversation with Judy Gumbo

“Protest has joy to it. Protest has fun to it. Protest has excitement to it.”

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Feminist to Know: Cherríe Moraga

Cherríe Moraga is a lesbian, xicana feminist poet, activist, essayist, and playwright… and our September 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Vote Anyway

Feminist solutions aren’t on the ballot; we are not off the hook for political action if we cast our vote. So what actually is on the ballot? What is at stake when we do or don’t vote?

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Feminist to Know: Hetty Reckless

Hetty Reckless escaped slavery with her daughter and made it to Philadelphia, where she would become a leading abolitionist and suffragette. She is also our August 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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The Racist History of the Seattle Police Department

“There is one thing, however, that the SPD has always been remarkably successful at, surpassing other police departments across the nation and garnering attention from the federal government: using violent force on our city’s communities of color.”

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Feminist Sounds: Speculation and Specters in Rhiannon Giddens’ Music

“Giddens’ music speaks back to multiple erasures, appropriations, and traumas in order to recover a musical aesthetic that opens a portal to the past and future.”

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Feminist to Know: Nikkita “KO” Oliver

Nikkita Oliver is a “self-empowered Black queer woman,” and an important activist voice in Seattle as a poet, organizer, attorney, educator, and abolitionist… and our July 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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“My Body a Prison Cell”

A History of Washington State Women’s Prisons

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Guest EmmaJuly 30, 2020

Ask Me About My Uterus

“I sat in the parking lot alone half an hour after the appointment. Tears and frustration filled the first ten minutes, and when those dried, I sat numb in the driver’s seat, unable to think clearly. Questions raced through my head — Did I want to freeze my eggs? Should I get a hysterectomy? If I had been treated earlier, could something else have been done?”

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Feminist to Know: Mia Mingus

Mia Mingus is an educator, organizer, and writer, focusing on disability justice and transformative justice… and our June 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Anti-Racist Reading List

Self-educate now!

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UterishJune 3, 2020

Feminist to Know: Minneapolis Protesters

The people protesting in Minneapolis are engaging in the deeply feminist act of struggling against systems of domination. So, we are highlighting their activism in our May 2020 Feminist to Know corner of The Provocateur.

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AHQ: Is Cancel Culture Cancelled?

Greta answers a question about cancel culture.

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