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WEBLoreen Arbus Accessibility is Fundamental Program. . September 10, 2024. The rapid expansion of online and remote education has been a game-changer, particularly for women with disabilities who have long been excluded from traditional educational settings. “If they close our school, we will create our own.”. – Underground Schools in ...
Mom, I Always Knew You Were a Lesbian – Women's eNews
WEBAug 27, 2024 — There was still one more person who needed to come out. “I always knew you were a lesbian,” my son continued, “because when I used to tell you that I thought I may be attracted to the same sex, you said that you felt the same way when you were my age. Even though you said it was natural for all teenagers to feel that way,” he continued ...
More Than Just Trauma: How Autistics Navigate a Neurotypical …
WEBAug 7, 2024 — When most people think about autism, it is not positive. A 2017 study found that first impressions of autistic people are generally negative, and being misperceived has been found to increase poor mental health and societal isolation in autistic people. Too often, when autistic people are seen more positively it is because they are socially inept savants and superheroes at the service of ...
Friedan Exposed 1950s Women’s Emotional Core
WEBSep 12, 2016 — Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” helped unravel the myth of the 1950s and 1960s housewife as completely satisfied and happy, says Stephanie Coontz in her book “A Strange Stirring.”. In this excerpt, Coontz shows just how Friedan did so. (WOMENSENEWS)–"The Feminine Mystique" engaged its …
A Celebration and a Call to Action: 20 Years of V-Day
WEBJan 31, 2020 — This past Valentine’s Day, I was honored to attend Eve Ensler’s powerful new play In the Body of the World followed by a 20-year anniversary celebration of V-Day, the anti-violence organization Ensler founded in 1998.In the one woman show, which is playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club through March 25th, Eve poignantly chronicles her personal journey of receiving, and transcending, a ...
Older Lesbians Reunite, Focused Now on Ageism – Women's eNews
WEBSep 12, 2016 — Alix Dobkin at a gay pride parade with grandchildren in Woodstock, N.Y. Credit: Alix Dobkin. NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)– These days, Alix Dobkin passes most of her time taking care of her three young grandchildren, picking up the two oldest from elementary school in Woodstock, N.Y., and playing with the youngest, a 4-year-old, at home. Every once in a while, though, the 73-year-old renowned folk ...
The Truth About the Sex Trade: Entry into the Life - Women's eNews
WEBAug 13, 2019 — The Life Story: Moments of Change is a groundbreaking new website and film project supported by NoVo Foundation that shines a light on the stories and experiences of women in the sex trade—also referred to as “the Life”—in an effort to provide better solutions that can prevent all girls and all women, cis, trans, and gender non-conforming, from being exploited in the first place, as ...
In Deference to Men: Growing up in the 1950s – Women's eNews
WEBAug 27, 2024 — One account of growing up female in the 1950s was taped in a two-minute video interview with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, whose story is very much like mine. We both learned that ladylike postures, specifically with legs crossed either at the knees or ankles, and hands in lap, were typically mandatory for a female in mid-century society.
How the Equal Rights Amendment would Strengthen the 14th …
WEBAug 30, 2023 — It was t he 14th Amendment, in fact (ratified on July 9, 1868), that ultimately provided women with equal immigration rights by granting citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”. Additionally, it forbade states from denying any person “within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”.
Legs Together and Apart – Women's eNews
WEBAug 21, 2024 — The woman, Actress Madeline McCray, could not wait to tell me her own Legs story. Art can open minds. It can put people in touch with thoughts long repressed, and start conversations stemming from its visual/visceral stimuli. This happened when Women’s eNews Executive Director Lori Sokol cathartically revealed a story she …