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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Dalai Lama has said, “Suffering should make us angry. This type of anger moves us toward a wrathful compassion to take action to end suffering.”
Society as a whole suffers when women don’t have control of their own bodies. Women’s rights are human rights.
In order for a woman to control her destiny, she must have the right to control her own body.
And this includes her right to be angry.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The recent wave of anti-abortion bills in states across the U.S. could quickly turn into a ban nationwide — and the most vulnerable women would bear the brunt
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Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘Things changed for me when I overheard Kai praying for Jesus to take her home to be with him forever.’ — This mother is fighting against LGBTQ+ hate after her transgender daughter was bullied by teachers and students.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Women can be sexist towards women and communicate in their values that they think a woman’s body is most valuable as property, as an incubator for babies. Black people/POCs can suffer from internalized racism and work against their own best interests.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The teen didn’t shy away from asking 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker about his plan of action for the opioid crisis – — and he chose to listen to her solutions before speaking himself.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes I can think of black women leaders who have told me that they cannot afford to be vulnerable at work because they would lose their jobs. When a black woman feels anger and expresses it at work, she is labeled an angry black woman. When a white woman does the same thing, it is called righteous indignation and the white makes support her.
At the end of the day, what my beloved Brene Brown is saying ( I am absolutely certain that it is unconscious on her part) is that we should liberate our vulnerabilities in a culturally white way to create deeper connections in a way that is appropriate is culturally white settings.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Women farmers aren’t just essential to food production and rural development — they’re key in the fight against climate change (via NowThis)
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The research showed that while 80 percent of the globe’s total farmland is used to rear livestock, this produces just 18 percent of total food calories and 35 percent of protein. It also accounts for 58 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, 57 percent of water pollution, and 56 percent of air pollution.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes During thousands of years of civilization, women have evolved to deal with the intractable perplexities of life and find means of peaceful coexistence where men have traditionally found roads to conflict. Women have accumulated rich ways of knowing that until recently were dismissed in male circles of power. The alchemy of what has made women the way they are is mysterious: Is it a result of centuries spent trying to survive and prosper in societies where they’ve been viewed as lesser? Or, until recently, of always being appointed the family caregiver, bearing and raising children, tending to elderly parents and disabled siblings, so often left to shoulder the unpaid burdens of real life? Women have learned and taught lessons about how to cope with seeming impossibilities in ways that men traditionally — and to this day — have not. Coaching a slow learner on homework after a day of hassles at the office provides a deep experience of delayed gratification. A woman’s wisdom comes, in part, from the great juggle of her life.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Amy Viela, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Paula Jean Swearengin: A new documentary from Netflix traces the journey that four women took to the 2018 elections.
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