women – Confluence Daily

Reading Time: 3 minutes Women will have to save our democracy because men aren’t going to do it.
Women will have to dismantle both racism and the patriarchy because men aren’t going to do it.
How do we know that?
Because it isn’t fucking done, and it isn’t going to get done while we behave like fragile flowers in a vase on a shelf with an expiration date. We have been the women behind the men fighting for their way of life too long.

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April 16, 2020 Confluence

SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN (Part Two: Reversals & Revelations)

Reading Time: 6 minutes By Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. The feminist professor and author Mary

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March 12, 2020 Confluence

Feminine Leadership, Elizabeth Warren, and “That’s What Girls Do”

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. The issue of “competency” once again

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March 10, 2020 Confluence

If You’re Counting Calories You’re Wasting Your time!

Reading Time: 5 minutes By: Sarah Grace Powers – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. We all learned that

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February 28, 2020 Confluence

SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL SERIES. Second-Class Citizen (Part One: Speaking Up—From Abigail Adams to Alice Paul)

Reading Time: 7 minutes By: Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. For thousands of years of patriarchal

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January 17, 2020 Confluence

Instead of asking for civility how about we ask for justice

Reading Time: 2 minutes We like to pretend as if “excuse me, sir, could you kindly remove your foot from my neck” is how corrupt, racist, sexist systems are overturned.

And by we I mean those of us conditioned to operate and function in and hold up a white supremacist system.

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January 15, 2020 Confluence

Pat Mitchell: Dangerous times call for dangerous women

Reading Time: < 1 minute Pat Mitchell has nothing left to prove and much less to lose — she’s become a “dangerous woman.” Not dangerous as in feared, she says, but fearless: a force to be reckoned with. In this powerful call to action, Mitchell invites all women, men and allies to join her in embracing the risks necessary to create a world where safety, respect and truth burn brighter than the darkness of our current times.

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January 2, 2020 Confluence

India Times: 36 Powerful Images Of Women Protesters Leading From The Front Across The World

Reading Time: 6 minutes Celebrating the power and courage of all the women and girls across the world who have to taken to the streets for their beliefs in gender equality, violence and democratic values.

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September 19, 2019 Confluence

What a Dame! The Glorious Renée Harris

Reading Time: 4 minutes By: Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. I first “met” Renée Harris

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August 13, 2019 Confluence

New Yorker: Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote

Reading Time: 23 minutes Although she has only recently come to wide attention, Abrams, a forty-five-year-old tax attorney, romance novelist, and former state representative, has been working on electoral reform—particularly on voter registration—in Georgia for some fifteen years.