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3 weeks ago | 
eurozine.com | Claire Potter
When women gained the right to vote in Sweden in 1919, a group of intellectuals – including Ada Nilsson (doctor), Honorine Hermelin (pedagogue and teacher) and Elin Wägner (author) – organised a course for women in political participation at a manor house outside Stockholm. The course evolved into an education centre: the Fogelstad Citizen School for Women.
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4 weeks ago | 
newrepublic.com | Claire Potter
Last Saturday, after a long illness, the radical feminist Susan Brownmiller died at 90. She leaves behind a few distant cousins, loving friends, and a public conversation about sex and gender that was transformed by her journalism, books, activism, and media presence. The author of seven books, Brownmiller is best known for Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, still in print 50 years after its 1975 publication.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Claire Potter
Last Saturday, after a long illness, the radical feminist Susan Brownmiller died at 90. She leaves behind a few distant cousins, loving friends, and a public conversation about sex and gender that was transformed by her journalism, books, activism, and media presence. The author of seven books, Brownmiller is best known for Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, still in print 50 years after its 1975 publication.
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2 months ago | 
newrepublic.com | Claire Potter |Neil Young
In late March, a group of Republicans in California sparked controversy for their plan to host an event dubbed “A Normal Gay Social.” The party referenced something JD Vance said before the 2024 election: “I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won … the normal gay guy vote,” Vance told podcast host Joe Rogan, “because they just wanted to be left the hell alone.” Normal gays, he explained, opposed “crazy stuff,” like prescribing puberty blockers to transgender minors.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Claire Potter |Neil Young
In late March, a group of Republicans in California sparked controversy for their plan to host an event dubbed “A Normal Gay Social.” The party referenced something JD Vance said before the 2024 election: “I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won … the normal gay guy vote,” Vance told podcast host Joe Rogan, “because they just wanted to be left the hell alone.” Normal gays, he explained, opposed “crazy stuff,” like prescribing puberty blockers to transgender minors.
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2 months ago | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Sonali Chakravarti |Sophie Lewis |Natasha Lennard
On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Tessie Prevost woke up and put on one of her prettiest dresses. Like Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Ruby Bridges, Tessie was a very special little girl. Along with hundreds of other Black children, the New Orleans Four, as they would forever be known, had taken a test. The test was devised by the Louisiana Pupil Placement Board after Brown v. Board of Education had declared separate but equal schools unconstitutional.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
publicseminar.org | Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Claire Potter |Alex Rossen |Assaf David
For years now, those of us who are paying attention have heard a range of political positions, from those held by moderate Democrats to socialism, described by MAGA Republicans as something called “the Left.” Sometimes “the Left” is simply invoked by the shorthand “they,” as in: “They tried to assassinate Donald Trump;” or more commonly, “They want you to believe,” followed by some caricature of an idea about women, race, gender, or sexuality.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Federico Finchelstein |Marc Stein |Jeffrey C. Isaac
Black Panthers demonstration in Ashod, Israel (1973) | Dan Hadani collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection / CC BY 4.0Oz Frankel’s new book, Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967–1973 (Stanford University Press, 2024), examines the multifaceted and contradictory presence of the United States in Israel during a short but significant period of history.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
news.yahoo.com | Claire Potter
Watching Cecile Richards exit the world after a two-year fight with brain cancer is hard: During our mutual lifetime, she helped to move feminism into the mainstream. An organizer and political strategist best known as president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 to 2018, Richards, who died Monday morning at age 67, defined what it meant to build feminist institutions that could compete in a modern political environment.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Nicole Hemmer |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |Neil Young
On October 28, 2023, the morning of her baby shower, 18-year-old Nevaeh Crain was nauseous, running a fever, and in pain. Soon, the Texas teenager began to bleed and she started to vomit. Nevaeh’s mother, Candice Fails, took her to the hospital, where Nevaeh was diagnosed with strep throat and sent home. A second visit also resulted in no care. Both times, ER staff ascertained that the fetus she was carrying had a heartbeat. That was a problem—for Nevaeh.
