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Princeton Students Are Sitting In for Title IX Reform Princeton Students Are Sitting In for Title IX Reform

In many ways, the sit-in serves as the culmination of student outcry over the university’s treatment of sexual-harassment and assault cases.

May 13, 2019 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

Patriarchy is violence.

May 8, 2019 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Las Comadres Is Fighting to Make Abortion Safe in Ecuador—Even While It’s Illegal

Las Comadres Is Fighting to Make Abortion Safe in Ecuador—Even While It’s Illegal Las Comadres Is Fighting to Make Abortion Safe in Ecuador—Even While It’s Illegal

The group represents a new tactic in abortion-rights activism, which skirts legal restrictions and the often risky surgical procedures that defined clandestine abortions in the pas...

May 7, 2019 / Zoë Carpenter

Brett Kavanaugh with Ted Cruz

A Frontal Attack on Roe v. Wade A Frontal Attack on Roe v. Wade

As a Republican-majority court threatens the legal right to abortion, it’s time for states to step up.

May 7, 2019 / The Nation

Ecuador’s Crackdown on Abortion Is Putting Women in Jail

Ecuador’s Crackdown on Abortion Is Putting Women in Jail Ecuador’s Crackdown on Abortion Is Putting Women in Jail

For decades, abortion was considered a private matter. Now, a Nation investigation shows, women who terminate—or lose—pregnancies are facing prosecution and prison time.

May 7, 2019 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

Marine Le Pen election posters.

The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism’ The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism’

Across Europe, politicians are hijacking feminist language to further right-wing ideologies. 

May 7, 2019 / Edna Bonhomme

Caster Semenya

The Caster Semenya Ruling Is Nonsense The Caster Semenya Ruling Is Nonsense

The highest athletics court issued a decision forcing the South African gold medalist to chemically suppress the naturally produced testosterone in her body. 

May 2, 2019 / Dave Zirin

Alicia Garza Youtube

The New Political Group Supermajority Aims to Mobilize Women Across Race, Class, and Generation The New Political Group Supermajority Aims to Mobilize Women Across Race, Class, and Generation

Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza are pushing a “women’s new deal.”

May 2, 2019 / Joan Walsh

Pro-choice Rally in New York

Take Action Now: Oppose Trump’s Abortion Extremism Take Action Now: Oppose Trump’s Abortion Extremism

Organize this week against the Hyde Amendment and phony crisis-pregnancy centers.

Apr 30, 2019 / NationAction

Forced Arbitration

Harvard Law Students Are Taking on Forced Arbitration Harvard Law Students Are Taking on Forced Arbitration

The little-known legal loophole rigs the game against working people, and this grassroots group of law students are working to combat it.

Apr 15, 2019 / StudentNation / Sejal Singh and Andre Manuel

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