Augusta Savage was an influential sculptor, advocate, and teacher, who was shaped by––and helped to shape––the Harlem Renaissance… she is also our February 2021 Feminist to Know on The Provocateur.
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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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Claire is a close friend of ours from high school, and has been writing and producing her own music since basically the beginning of time.
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A short bio on one of the lesser-known figures of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Dolores Huerta is a feminist, labor activist, and civil rights leader… and our December 2020 Feminist to Know on The Provocateur.
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“The anonymity of my disease has become a very sacred thing when something as personal as my own body is out of my control”
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Haunani-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.
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Greta answers a question about the copper IUD.
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“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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Alexandria 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.
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“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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