Feminism 101
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These attitudes, along with inflammatory rhetoric, often lead to violence, apathy and scapegoating on the part of Western populations. This…
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The reality is, gender exists on a spectrum -- not a binary. So people who identify as one extreme of…
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Postcolonial feminism resists Euro-American feminists’ tendency to universalize the shape oppression takes for women in various sociopolitical and historical contexts.
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The very act of buying household products or a princess crown is not liberating; it normalizes a female social role…
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The bottom line is toxic masculinity harms all genders. It promotes sexism, misogyny, violence, and rape culture, while enforcing dangerous…
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Tokenism, broadly speaking, is including someone in a group for the sake of sounding or appearing diverse.
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Cultural appropriation is a centuries-old practice of disrespecting a culture by adopting aspects of that culture without regarding the significance…
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Gaslighting is a common psychological trick that removes accountability and stifles discourse by laying blame on the victim or convincing…
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Cissexism is the conscious or unconscious reinforcement of the belief that there are only two genders, determined at birth by…
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Tone-policing is a way to silence emotion in the movement for equality. To silence emotion in the movement is to…
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