Hillary Harvey hosts a Feminist Round Table with Silvana Ramos and Becca Wild. We analyze this week’s censure vote in the Ulster County Legislature through a feminist lens and how, despite any of the cultural shifts made, we still don’t center survivors or believe women. We’ll talk about how women uphold the patriarchy, how the backlash against the #MeToo movement is really a tamping down, and, of course, the true crux of it all: power.
Feminist Resources:
- The response letter from VIDA: Women in Literary Arts to the Boston Review.
- The ‘cancelled’ men who are making a comeback article.
- The group, Survived and Punished, who works with women who are incarcerated for fighting back their abusers.
- Chanel Miller's short film about being victimized by Brock Turner, which we shared on Facebook, too.
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Rebecca Solnit on #MeToo Backlash.
- Moira Donegan on feminist ideological arguments around #MeToo.
- Rebecca Traister on public perceptions of women in politics, especially Kirsten Gillibrand.
- The article, An Unbelievable Story of Rape on ProPublica, which inspired the Netflix show, Unbelievable.
