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Six years ago, California passed a lawβAssembly Bill 2314β requiring an advisory committee to improve voting access for Native Americans. The committee still doesn't exist. Advocates say the barriers it was meant to fix, from faraway polls to unreliable mail, still remain.
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In 1939, Jesse Lee Bond was lynched in Tennessee simply for asking for a receipt. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, Justice Kyra Harris Bolden, became the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court.This is the arc of the moral universe. This is how pain is turned into purpose. This is how we redeem the Dream of Americaβby refusing to forget our history and by continuing the fight for justice.
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'You keep going' by contemporary US artist Martha Rich.
Thank you for following #WomensArt π€ #FridayFeeling
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Our hearts go out to Helen Haines MP, her family, her staff, and the Australian people as they process this devastating news.
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Iβd youβre shocked at the damage in France to an old town hall youβll be horrified to hear whatβs happened to the beautiful old buildings and heritage of the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans
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Do read novelist Ros Barber's story. She spoke to me about why 'big game hunters' go for the lion and get pleasure out of crushing powerful women who believe in equality. She's currently writing a blistering memoir on Substack to help other women
As her health deteriorated, Ros Barber felt increasingly trapped in a marriage she could no longer bear.
She recounts how she survived and eventually escaped the marriagem and secured full custody of her children.
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Huna: a Memoir of Revolution, Prison Becoming by Abdelrahman ElGendy, an author and translator from Cairo & winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award, is a finalist for the National Book Award 2026!
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Huna by Abdelrahman ElGendy is out today!
A gripping and deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestorβturnedβpolitical prisoner in post-revolution Egypt.
In his remarkable debut, Abdelrahman offers not a promise of hope, but a provocation. When the very tenderness that can save you is used against you, how can you find the courage to love?
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Wonderful event at @WstoneIslington last night with two superstar Iranian authors, Laleh Khadivi (FEMALE LIFE ON PLANET EARTH, just out) and Sanam Mahloudji (THE PERSIANS, shortlisted for the @WomensPrize β26)!
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Iβm not really on here any more but have popped back to ask if any agents or editors follow me here? Iβve just read THE MOST DELIGHTFUL novel involving faeries and Jane Austen characters and would love to put you in touch with the author if you think it might be for youβ¦
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Remembering all those who lost their lives 25 years ago today in New York City, September 11th, 2001. β€οΈ
David Bowie β America & βHeroesβ (Concert for New York City, 2001)
Video of the Day #NeverForget911
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If you were young in 2001, or werenβt even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.
But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.
Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.
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In memory of Virago's pioneering founder Carmen Callil, we're bringing our lecture series The Carmen Talks, back to The London Library.
The third in a series of five, this talk by Kit de Waal reflects on her own activism as a writer and publisher π
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Today, we mourn the loss of feminist activist and author Gloria Steinem, who received an honorary Columbia degree in 2012 for her civic engagement and advocacy.
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Rest in Peace Gloria Steinem ποΈ
Activist, journalist, feminist icon and advocate for womenβs rights, her legacy will continue to change the world π€
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63 years ago today.
Paul Newman
March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom










































