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Home » feminism

Tag: feminism

Posted inNews

Marching for choice

by Kathleen Hinkel May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

Hundreds of Chicagoans demonstrated downtown after a leaked draft of a SCOTUS draft decision threatened abortion rights.

Posted inNews & Politics

Abortion is healthcare

by Katie Prout and Jim Daley May 3, 2022July 28, 2022

Tips on obtaining an abortion and supporting abortion access in a post-Roe vs Wade world

a black woman wearing a blue suit with red and white stripes diagonally across the back; the subject has her back to the camera as she looks at a church
Posted inArts & Culture

Occupying the moment

by Bridgette M. Redman February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

Dr. Maura Reilly is a curator who understands feminist art.  It is one of the reasons she was chosen to curate a historic exhibition at Bridgeport Art Center as a […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Are neon signs really enough?

by S. Nicole Lane December 13, 2021December 13, 2021

There’s a young person smiling, posing—hand on their hip—in front of a lit-up sign that reads: “EMPOWER WOMEN.” It intermittently flashes to include ED, making it “EMPOWERED.” The photo is […]

Posted inArts & Culture

You’re not allowed to just be old and embrace it

by Kimberly Dark and Heather Corinna October 14, 2021October 13, 2021

Writers Heather Corinna and Kimberly Dark got together to discuss recent writing, menopause, body image, and more this summer while west coast resident Kimberly was in Chicago visiting her son […]

Posted inMusic

Sleater-Kinney explore new sonic directions, but their core remains the same on The Center Won’t Hold

by Jamie Ludwig October 11, 2019August 18, 2021

If you were a young American feminist in the late 90s or early 00s with a penchant for punk and indie rock, there’s a good chance you grew up listening […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic

by Maya Dukmasova December 17, 2018August 18, 2021

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.

Posted inArts & Culture

Lit recs for the reader exhausted by the weight of history

by Aimee Levitt December 3, 2018August 18, 2021

The current book obsessions of Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt and essayist and Women & Children First co-owner Sarah Hollenbeck.

Posted inBlogs

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival about witches

by Julia Hale November 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Kristen Sollée explained our current witchy moment, with detours into mythology, theology, and Bewitched.

Posted inArts & Culture

Julie Doucet is done making comics

by Anne Elizabeth Moore October 31, 2018August 18, 2021

But the comics world is definitely not done talking about her.

Posted inBlogs

What we learned this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival

by Aimee Levitt, Deanna Isaacs and Emmanuel Camarillo October 29, 2018August 18, 2021

Jerry Saltz, Alex Ross, women’s anger, and why historians sort of miss Richard Nixon

Posted inArts & Culture

Jill Soloway wants you to stop arguing with people online

by Cody Corrall October 15, 2018August 18, 2021

The Transparent creator comes home to Chicago to demonstrate how to do it in person.

Posted inBlogs

Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018

by Julia Hale October 10, 2018August 18, 2021

At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.

Posted inBlogs

Everyone’s a sucker at a new kind of traveling circus—the Instagram trap

by Ryan Smith July 30, 2018August 9, 2022

At Happy Place, 29Rooms, and a new wave of pop-up museums you can pay $30+ for great Instagrams—and not much else.

Posted inBlogs

Alicia Swiz wants to make you a better feminist—by taking her online course

by Katie Powers June 21, 2018August 18, 2021

“I’ve always been a huge advocate of people becoming more critical thinkers of media.”

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