“Protest has joy to it. Protest has fun to it. Protest has excitement to it.”
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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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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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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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“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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“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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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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“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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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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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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Greta answers a question about cancel culture.
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Guest Shiv and Alex discuss failed masculinities and the non-human in Star Wars. Alternatively titled: “Jar Jar Twink,” “Stop Kink-Shaming the Sith,” or “Daddy Dark Side.”
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Tourmaline is a filmmaker, artist, trans studies scholar, educator, and organizer… and our April 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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Greta and Alex talk with Bachelor Gaytion.
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Rebecca Gomperts is a doctor and artist whose career is centered around providing abortion services and reproductive healthcare education to those with limited or no access… and our March 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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“As a high school club soccer player, I would enter into a lifestyle full of convoluted social education about what gender, sex, gender roles, and sexual identity all meant.”
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“The moment that I try to make sense out of this composition, I become responsible for what I see; there is so much in front of me that everything I name is a choice, even without me realizing.”
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Saidiya Hartman is one of the most influential Black scholars alive today, who has made pivotal interventions in the historicization of U.S. enslavement… and our February 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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