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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan

Opinion columnist covering gender and politics @guardianUS. Writer in residence @clayman_inst. Real piece of work.

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New York! This Wednesday, 9/4, I get to join Joy Neumeyer at POWERHOUSE Arena to launch A Survivor’s Education, her gorgeous new memoir about gender violence and the contradictions of epistemic authority. Join us! powerhousearena.com/events/book-la…

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I’m always socked at how effortful and inventive men are in their pursuit of rape, and then I feel naive. Of course they would. Of course they all would.

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I loved talking about Jane—the pre-Roe Chicago abortion service that performed more than 11,000 safe, illegal abortions between 1968 and 1973—with my forever favorite your friend, Dracula for You're Wrong About.... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…

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Very sad news. Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend, a Ugandan official says.

Very sad news.

Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend, a Ugandan official says.
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When people are like “interest in gender, women’s gendered pain, women’s bodies is simplistic and stupid and/or politically suspicious.” -that person is a misogynist and they will make a rightward turn. It’s as predictable as the tides.

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This headline manages to reinforce several pillars of rape culture at once, one being that sexual violence is a private act and coming forward about it publicly is a transgression, another that any attempt to seek justice for sexual violence is a form of violence in itself

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"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws." — Linnea Johnson This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves.

"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws." 

— Linnea Johnson 

This week, <a href="/MoiraDonegan/">Moira Donegan</a> takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves.
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The FBI has reportedly confiscated the cell phone of NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban. An additional two phones were confiscated from a Lieutenant and a Sergeant working in Manhattan.

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Lucinda Cisler of the Redstockings in 1970: "Anyone who has spoken publicly about abortion from the feminist point of view knows all too well that it is feminism--not abortion--that is the really disturbing idea."

Lucinda Cisler of the Redstockings in 1970: "Anyone who has spoken publicly about abortion from the feminist point of view knows all too well that it is feminism--not abortion--that is the really disturbing idea."
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Men see sex as what women are for and their sexual desire—including their sexual force—as the only measure of women’s value that matters.