1B. Organizing Social Change for Women
NOTE: Some of the sources in this section are listed in order to suggest various nonviolent strategies and tactics that feminist activists can use to create social change.
Kara Dansky
“…committed to protecting the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls on the basis of sex in law and throughout society.”
https://www.karadansky.com/read
If, When, How
“…nationwide network of lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and movement organizers who are working to make reproductive freedom a reality for all… If/When/How envisions a transformation of the legal systems and institutions that perpetuate oppression into structures that realize justice, and a future when all people can self-determine their reproductive lives free from discrimination, coercion, or violence.”
https://www.ifwhenhow.org
Let Women Speak
https://www.letwomenspeak.org
Stop Patriarchy
“End pornography and patriarchy: The enslavement & degradation of women”
http://www.stoppatriarchy.org
Resource Kit
http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/organizing-kit.html
Yes All Women
“Yes all women go through physical, mental and sexual abuse.”
https://twitter.com/yesallwomen
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First of all, nobody gave us anything. It makes me furious when I hear that they gave us suffrage. Excuse me? It took 72 years of unrelenting, unbroken organizing grassroots effort to get women's suffrage. It took 113 years to get rid of child labor by law. It took similarly long periods of organized effort to accomplish any advance in social policy.
― Gerda Lerner
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IMDb. “Suffragette.” [2015]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3077214/
Sirin Kale. “The legendary women's rights activist who mailed Obama a coat hanger: Laura X led the campaign to outlaw marital rape across the USA in the 1970s and 1980s.” [2016]
https://archive.ph/JMmPY
Morgan Laird. “What’s current: Campaigners in Ottawa protest the transfer of male offenders to women’s prisons” [2022]
https://archive.ph/6umtp
https://twitter.com/esme_saysno/status/1535715739834925063
Wendy Murphy. “An open letter to Harvard Law Professor Nancy Gartner.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/OL9jZ
"Rebecca." “Transcript of a speech from the Melbourne Let Women Speak Event: Please note this is not my speech, but the amazing speech of a remarkable Australian woman.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/MIgWI
Kathleen Stock. “Doing better in arguments about sex, gender and trans rights: Radical feminist and gender-critical philosophers challenge their opponents to avoid some obviously bad argumentative moves.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/1UfUY
Karen Trinko. “This mom is fighting her school’s LGBT indoctrination.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/1l7Cu
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They tried to bury us; they did not know we were the seeds.
― Mexican Proverb
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Saul Alinsky. Reveille for Radicals. [1946] BOOK
[Complete book]
https://historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946 - Saul Alinsky - Reveille for Radicals.pdf
Linda Hirschman. Reckoning: The epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment. [2019] BOOK
https://www.lindahirshman.com/books
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
― Gloria Steinem