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SAY HER NAME, Part II: Women, Violence, and Incarceration

Posted on March 2, 2016

SAY HER NAME, Part II: Women, Violence, and Incarceration (Part I is here) “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 “I am convicted of murdering my ex-husband who abused me for years. I have done 33 years of my 25-to-life sentence. I am […]

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Posted in Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Prison Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, intersectionality, mass incarceration, naomi jaffe, prison justice, racism, she breathes, victim-blaming, women Leave a comment

alla dem gag at serena’s brilliance & resilience

Posted on July 17, 2015

Serena-goddess, Serena-sis, please know i am still in a ruby red rage cloud over the racist, misogynistic, BESTIAL treatment you received on July 11, 2015 at the hands of The New York Times. fresh off the court where you left your latest historic notch, i can’t imagine how you must have felt to have to […]

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Posted in Body Image, Creative Writing, Gender-based Violence, Political Education Tagged blkcowrie, body image, feminism, gender noncomforming, gender violence, misogyny, racism, sarah baartman, serena williams, she breathes, sports, transphobia, venus hottentot, women, women of color Leave a comment

The Newest Chapter in the “War on Drugs”: The Pregnancy Criminalization Law (SB 1391)

Posted on May 19, 2014

On Tuesday, April 29th, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, signed into law the first law in the United States that authorizes the arrest and incarceration of women who use drugs while pregnant. Women in Tennessee can now be prosecuted for assault if they take a narcotic drug while pregnant and the baby is born addicted, is […]

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Posted in Prison Justice, Reproductive Justice, Social Justice Tagged Haslam, holding our own, Pregnancy, Prison, prison justice, SB 1391, she breathes, Tennessee, The Pregnancy Criminalization Law, women, women and poverty Leave a comment

In Memory of Adrienne Rich

Posted on March 27, 2014

Victorio Reyes is a poet and Executive Director of the The Social Justice Center of Albany. Three years ago, I decided to return to school to pursue an MFA in creative writing. As a poet, who came from the spoken word and Hip Hop schools, I was surprised by how many corners of the literary […]

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Posted in Activism, Creative Writing, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged adrienne rich, albany ny, amiri baraka, audre lorde, holding our own, langston hughes, margaret atwood, poetry, she breathes, social justice, sonia sanchez, speaking truth to power, victorio reyes, women 1 Comment

Spotlight on Victoria Kereszi

Posted on March 12, 2014

In an effort to give Holding Our Own’s network members an opportunity to get to know each other just a little better, we will be spotlighting a couple of our members each month. We hope that this will help provide you with more opportunities to connect, collaborate and leverage your resources. Do you want to be next, […]

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Posted in Activism, Events, Local Feminists, Reproductive Justice, Uncategorized, Women in the Military Tagged activism, albany ny, female veterans, holding our own, into loving hands, jennifer young-canton, local feminism, midwifery, motherhood, natural birth, photography, pro choice, sanctuary for independent media, she breathes, troy ny, victoria kereszi, women, women's work, workforce development institute, workshops, writing Leave a comment

Half the Sky, Continue the Conversation

Posted on March 8, 2013

Did you attend tonight’s Salon Screening? See the film? What are your thoughts? Reactions? Rants? Inspirations? Kick off the conversation.

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Posted in Activism, Events Tagged half the sky, half the sky movement, salon screening, she breathes, women 2 Comments

International Women’s Day by Sean Heather McGraw

Posted on March 8, 2013

Holding Our Own has decided to launch our new blog on the annual International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on March 8. The history of International Women’s Day is intertwined with the history of efforts to obtain suffrage for women as well as socialist party agitation to achieve fair conditions for workers in the years […]

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Posted in Activism Tagged adelheid popp, alexandra kollontai, clara zetkin, international women's day, she breathes, temma kaplan, women 1 Comment

“women’s work” (for asmaa mahfouz* and israa abdel-fattah**) by blkcowrie

Posted on March 8, 2013

  “habibti?”  “yes, mama?” “come.” she checks my hijab for glimpses, and says that we are to walk the streets with respect. we are to buy groceries, not sell ourselves. “today,” she adds, “we do women’s work.” * at the market, she pounds fruit for their secrets and examines vegetables for their lies. i am […]

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Posted in Activism Tagged activism, arab spring, blkcowrie, international women's day, power, protest, she breathes, women, women's work 12 Comments

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