WILPF on Iranian Women’s uprising

Women International League for Peace and Freedom ON IRANIAN WOMEN Statement to Support the Iranian People’s Uprising against Tyranny – A Message from Jamila Afghani, WILPF Vice President We at WILPF stand in solidarity with the wide-scale uprising of the Iranian people against the hegemonic, violent and oppressive regime. Our radical feminist tradition taught us …

The Serpent’s Claw – Researchers have found that snakes have a semiclitoris.

Proposed by Sissy Vovou Scientists have discovered that female snakes have claws. Megan Folwell, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Adelaide in Australia, has managed to find and describe for the first time in scientific chronicles the clavicle of a female snake. Apart from birds, cloves have all vertebrae, even lizards. However, nothing relevant …

Five essential facts to know about femicide

Proposed by Sissy Vovou Gender related killings (femicide/feminicide) are the most brutal and extreme manifestation of a continuum of violence against women and girls that takes many interconnected and overlapping forms. Defined as an intentional killing with a gender-related motivation, femicide may be driven by stereotyped gender roles, discrimination towards women and girls, unequal power relations between …

Shatzi Weisberger, exceptional fighter, dies at 92

Proposed by Sissy Vovou Shatzi Weisberger, Who Was Beloved As The People’s Bubbie, Has Died At Age 92 Weisberger was a fixture in the New York protest scene and often went viral for her protest signs. Shatzi Weisberger, known as the People’s Bubbie after going viral as a fixture at New York protests in support …