How can we be less insulated? There isn’t a simple answer to this question, but it’s clear that in order to truly understand and recognize each other, we must want to understand and recognize each other.
Democratic leadership has said abortion won't be a "litmus test" for candidates. But they can't make progress on economic and racial justice without fighting for abortion rights.
No, Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler.
That this horrific idea exists, floating in our collective ethos and demanding a refutation is shocking. But this is where we are, and the failure to address the horror only means a greater evil is sure to come.
In November 2016, a scholar named Sebastian Schutte—a Marie Curie fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany—wrote an interesting article in The Washington Post. In it he argued that Trump had not reached Hitlerian heights. Not yet.
A new resource on media and the suffrage movement sheds light on the central role of media in any campaign for social change.
As disability rights advocates are fighting back against Republican attempts to dismantle Medicaid and other support services, women, especially women of color, bring to their activism "unique, comprehensive, lived experience," reports writer Heather Watkins.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott has called a special session of the Texas legislature, and anti-choice and anti-trans bills are the hallmarks of the agenda.
From his comments about “pussy grabbing” to the restrictive reproductive policies he pushes to the lack of women on his staff, it’s understandable why so many women are uncomfortable with and resistant to President Trump. And Trump’s misogyny only continues: Caitriona Perry, an RTE News Washington Correspondent, was the latest woman to endure an upsetting interaction with the president...
As the Trump administration moved forward on Thursday with new guidelines that severely restrict travel from six Muslim-majority countries, yet again the country was distracted by Trump’s latest grotesque, sexist tweetstorm.
The Congressional Budget Office scoring of the Republican Senate health care bill confirms that the proposed law singles out Planned Parenthood for defunding.
Lawmakers in Missouri set the tone for a dark week in health care reform for women. On Tuesday, the House sent a bill to the state Senate that, if passed, will infringe on the rights of women seeking abortions, and hamper the work of abortion providers.
Robin on the GOP baseball shooting, the censoring of Shakespeare, how Jim Crow inspired Hitler, and the tale of Maddie Runckles. Guests: Ariel Levy on why "The Rules Do Not Apply"; Emily Temple-Wood's F-You Project on women in science at Wikipedia.
Robin on Comey's testimony, Reality Winner's leak, and what everyone overlooks but Trump fears most. Guests: former prosecutor Jane Manning on drug-facilitated rape and the Cosby trial; physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on "the physics of melanin."
Robin on "covfefe," Hillary's newfound badass free speech, the Paris Accord exit, and all the president's men. Guests: Meghan Milloy and Jennifer Pierotti Lim of GOP Women for Progress; Dr. Ellen Currano on paleontology and The Bearded Lady Project.
Robin on the escalating physical attacks against journalists, Trump's misadventures abroad, and his regime's chaos at home. Guests: Ahd Niazy, founder of Saudi feminist literary magazine Jahanamiya; Dominique Crenn, 2-Michelin-star chef and feminist.
I didn’t grow up in a very religious home. Concerts are where I know to worship. Joy, to me, in its most potent form, feels like expelling lyrics loudly at a stage. It feels like the rattle of drums in my bones. At concerts, I learned to find communion with strangers. I learned to be grateful for the sorrow and scars and coming of age from which great music is born. The performers are more preachers than deities, though we meet them with godly reverence. When we’re lucky, the artist is a young woman.
Robin on Trump's "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," gerrymandering, jailing press, and leakers. Guests: Linda Fentiman on how blaming mothers is embedded in the law; Claudia Megan Urry on the wonders of astrophysics—and fighting sexism in the field.
Women have benefitted from the Affordable Care Act, and women have a lot to lose if the new Republican health care bill becomes law.
News Exposé Special: Robin lets loose on a shockingly overlooked, major link connecting Trump and Putin. Guests: Congresswoman Grace Meng's "Menstrual Equality Bill"; comics Sarah Pappalardo and Beth Newell discuss "Reductress."
Trump administration policies are reversing many protections for workers. Could these actions be undermining Trump's support among working-class voters?
Robin on FBI director Comey testifying to the Senate, a new Saudi women's uprising, immigration history, and Trumpcare. Guests: Stacy Bannerman on endangered veterans' wives; Donna Seaman's book Identity Unknown about "disappeared" women artists.
Robin blasts Democrats' "Unity" and celebrates Poetry Month. Guests: Liesl Olson unearths women who made U.S. poetry vibrant and inclusive through a century of Poetry magazine; poet Alicia Ostriker reads work with immigrant themes from her new book.
Robin on Easter, Google, United Airlines, female SCOTUS justices, and VAL (Violence Against Language). Guests: Dutch Trade Minister Lilianne Ploumen describes the founding of She Decides; Veronica Todaro on women and Parkinson's disease.
I remember I was 5 years old as I watched my mother repeatedly climb to the highest part of the bed only to jump right back off again. I was confused. I could see that she was in emotional and physical pain. I was sad for her.
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