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Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse and kept it there for nearly a half-century, died on Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82.
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has released a new video featuring Gloria Steinem, in which the feminist icon argues that this election is a “turning point” and that women should grant Obama a second term if they want to see their rights protected.
“We will lose what we have gained if a Republican candidate were to win,” says Steinem. “So the question is will we be active, will we get out there, will we be self-respecting and forget about party labels and vote for ourselves. Vote for our fundamental human rights?”
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Breast cancer survivor Sandy Knight wants workers to press for more safety measures in factories. (Courtesy of Brandon Knight)
A breast cancer survivor who was exposed to a toxic mix of cancer-causing chemicals on the job at a plastic factory 20 years ago is warning that the health of workers still isn’t protected enough.
Sandy Knight, a former health and safety chairperson at a plastics factory in Windsor, Ont., now speaks to men and women about potentially dangerous substances in the workplace.
On Saturday, March 10, the final morning of the Women in the World Third Annual Summit, The New York Times featured a four-column photo of Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund with Chancellor Angela Merkel. The title was, “German Leader and I.M.F. Chief Split Over Debt.” Lagarde had been in Manhattan the previous evening for an interview before delegates at Women in the World, where she answered questions covering the global economy, the I.M.F., and her personal life challenges.
Iconic Woman and The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day I think it is only right that we take a moment to honor the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement, Ms. Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks’ childhood Continue Reading …
Iconic Herbalist, Healer and Wise Woman Growing up in rural Canada, I took the use of herbs and other plants as both food source and healing tonic for granted. When I moved to the States as a young woman, I left that that part of me behind. My life in Chicago was exiting and as Continue Reading …
Marija Gimbutas January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994 Marija Gimbutas was a classically trained Lithuanian-American archeologist.[1] By combining traditional archeological “dig-work” with linguistics and mythological interpretation, her pioneering research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of “Old Europe” produced profound cultural revelations. Gimbutas unearthed startling evidence of stable, matriarchal, egalitarian societies living Continue Reading …
Iconic Woman, Feminist Shamanic Healer and Teacher Vicki Noble is a feminist shamanic healer, author, independent scholar and wisdom teacher. In the 1970s she awakened to the Goddess and Women’s Spirituality and opened psychically to the healing, art, yoga, and divination processes that led to the creation of the Motherpeace tarot deck. Noble created, graduated Continue Reading …
How Demographics Led To the Persecution of Women For about two hundred years beginning in the fourteenth century, Europe was swept by natural and man-made disasters. Long bloody wars killed millions of men, several times during that period, the Black plague swept through the new city states of Europe. Interestingly men seemed more susceptible to Continue Reading …
Co-opting of the Goddess: acquire, adapt and subjugate Christianity is based on belief. There was a striking dichotomy in the early Christian church —the beliefs of the elite and the beliefs of the general population that made up the congregations. These congregations were still steeped in the nature-based rites of the old Goddess religion. Continue Reading …
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