Activism

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Slutwalk, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2011

From Hasidic Rock to the Dangers of Slut-Shaming at JOFA

Talia bat Pessi

I had been eagerly anticipating the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) conference for months. Happily, it did not disappoint.

Naomi Weisstein

Why not see what would happen if we created visionary, feminist rock?

Ruth Weisberg

I am particularly nourished by the history of art, the history of the Jewish people, and by the unwritten history of women.

Nina Totenberg

The hearings ripped open the subject of sexual harassment like some sort of long-festering sore.

Savina Teubal

‘Question Authority.’ Those two words did for me what the burning bush did for Moses: they changed my perception of reality.

Meredith Tax

It was too good a story to leave in a history book.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

[W]hy are so many incredibly bright, talented, and capable teenagers developing these new, life threatening eating disorders?

Gloria Steinem

Then younger feminists came along with an analysis that included all females—a revolution and not a reform—and it made sense of my own life.

Marcia Cohn Spiegel

In the 1970's, when I joined a feminist consciousness-raising group, I heard other women's stories. I recognized that I was not alone.

Joan Snyder

The histories of the women in the Bible were nothing if not those of women ferociously pioneering for the rights of females.

Alix Kates Shulman

The idea was simply this: that a woman and man should share equally the responsibillity for their household and children in every way...

Lynn Sherr

Anthony's home in Rochester—the centerpiece of this clip—remains a living symbol of the first stirrings of feminism in America.

Barbara Seaman

This feminist disobedience, day after day, became a major story in the news, and by June we had secured an FDA warning to users of the Pill.

Susan Weidman Schneider

The cover of the first issue featured our artist's version of the Jewish superwoman, who managed to amalgamate almost all possible roles...

Joan Roth

Standing on top of the world, with a true and equitable representation of its women, seemed a harmonious interchange between dreams and actions, work and belief.

Sally Priesand

When I decided to study for the rabbinate, I never thought much about being a pioneer, nor was it my intention to champion the rights of women. I just wanted to be a rabbi.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Our goal at Ms. was to make such lives visible, to honor women's work, and to expose the legal, economic, and social barriers that stand in the way of women's full humanity.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

After evaluating the results of my anti-Semitism survey and writing the article for Ms., I saw the importance of being a public affirmative Jew.

Judith Plaskow

B'not Esh has provided a model for how separatist feminist spaces can generate ideas and energy that spill over in to a larger community.

Marge Piercy

The poems in The Art of Blessing the Day were written over a 20-year period.

Joan Nestle

More than ever, I believe in a feminism that does not run from the full complexity of women's lives, from the vital differences between us as well as the connections that bind us.

Sheryl Baron Nestel

Unfortunately, we made the same mistake that many feminists were to make in the ensuing years: we sought respectability at the expense of the inclusivity.

Cheryl Moch

That mythical portal had been revealed exclusively to women at the '73 conference: now we'd partner with our brothers and walk through together.

Deena Metzger

Our intention in turning it into a poster was to invite the world to look at a one-breasted woman and exult in her health and vitality.

Belda Lindenbaum

It was Blu Greenberg and my own smart and provocative mother who brought feminist ideas into my Jewish life.

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