Jane Fonda is RISING, are you? Here she is on a recent visit to Rome. One Billion Rising: REVOLUTION is almost here. DRUM! DANCE! RISE on or about 14 February! Find an EVENT near you and DRUM! DANCE! RISE!

This is the story of how a group of women who were shunned and abused and regarded as worthless came together – to transform the laws of their country, and save the lives of many more women like them. By 2005, I had been working in Mexico for more than…

I am writing to you today as a proud alumna of Mount Holyoke College and the mother of a graduating senior.  I am also writing as the Editor of the leading interdisciplinary journal in feminist and gender studies, and a long-time feminist and queer theorist and activist – from my days…

Read the original article at PressGrab.com One Billion Rising Revolution Miami and Rally to Stop Human Trafficking Returns to MDC Feb. 12 MIAMI – Thousands of students, community leaders, celebrities and survivors will descend on the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College (MDC) Thursday, Feb. 12, to participate in the…

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As communities around the world plan their One Billion Rising events, they are sharing their artistic expressions of Revolution! Posters, banners, photos, memes and more are pouring in! Here are a few examples from Germany, Denmark, Indonesia, Poland, Taiwan, and Tortoli Italy. If you would like to share your event’s artistic…

Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian By Oliver Laughland (The Guardian) After theatre group at all-female Mount Holyoke College blasts the play for not doing enough to include transgender people and people of colour, Eve Ensler tells the Guardian: ‘I would like to believe the play is outdated but sadly it isn’t’ The playwright…

By Lizzie Crocker (Daily Beast) Mount Holyoke College is not allowing a performance of The Vagina Monologues after complaints it’s transphobic. But when did artistic censorship become a good feminist look? Ever since the 1996 Off-Broadway premiere of The Vagina Monologues, written by Eve Ensler to “celebrate the vagina” and women’s…

By Gil Kaufman (MTV) Late last year, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, redefined the admissions policy for the traditionally all-female school to include any academically qualified students — regardless of their anatomy or gender identity. The only caveat was that prospective attendees could not be biologically male and…

If you saw me in the street, you might recognize me, but I guess you wouldn’t know where from. I’m the person who served up your Happy Meal in McDonald’s. A few years later, I waited on your table at Red Lobster. A few years after that, I brought over…