It's no secret that Planned Parenthood occupies a complex position in our society. The organization is a troubled fixture even for feminists as simultaneously one of the largest providers of lifesaving reproductive healthcare and a group with a deeply racist past.
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Read MoreClaire is a close friend of ours from high school, and has been writing and producing her own music since basically the beginning of time.
Read MoreA short bio on one of the lesser-known figures of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Read MoreDolores Huerta is a feminist, labor activist, and civil rights leader… and our December 2020 Feminist to Know on The Provocateur.
Read More“The anonymity of my disease has become a very sacred thing when something as personal as my own body is out of my control”
Read MoreHaunani-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.
Read MoreGreta answers a question about the copper IUD.
Read More“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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Read MoreAlexandria 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.
Read More“Protest has joy to it. Protest has fun to it. Protest has excitement to it.”
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Read MoreCherríe Moraga is a lesbian, xicana feminist poet, activist, essayist, and playwright… and our September 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
Read MoreFeminist 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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Read MoreHetty 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.
Read More“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.”
Read More“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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Read MoreNikkita 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.
Read More“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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