Tag: women

Women in the Labor Movement

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 22, 2019

Kim Kelly has a great piece highlighting how women are taking over the labor movement: This renewed energy is coming disproportionately from women. In fact, women — and particularly women of color — remain on the front lines of worker-organizing in a variety of industries, including those our patriarchal society has long coded as “women’s […]

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Humorless Meninists Suspended Me From Twitter

By Christa Blackmon

On March 27, 2018

It appears some brave humanitarian soul has gotten me suspended from Twitter based on a tweet where I used the hashtag #KillAllMen. Not that it really matters, but the tweet appeared in an exch

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Women, Water, and Labor

By Erik Loomis

On July 25, 2017

In thinking about both labor issues and global development, the connection between women’s work and water supplies must be central. In much of the world, women work incredibly hard hauling water

Undergarments in History

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 7, 2014

I’m a bit skeptical of crediting World War I as the primary reason for the decline of the corset and rise of the bra. Usually things like this have multifaceted causes and I highly doubt that without World War I, flappers and Depression-era women would be wearing corsets. That said, this is an interesting discussion […]

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Conservation and Condescension to Women, circa 1911

By Erik Loomis

On September 9, 2011

An exchange on the conservation movement, from the Ladies Home Journal, November 1911: THE REQUEST FROM THE MOTHER: I wonder if you ever realize, you who live and move in the big world of things, how