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For one shining moment, being a Russian woman meant sexual freedom and radical equality. Never seen before – or since

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To help teachers make the most of these films, we also provide a grab-bag of teaching ideas, related readings and student activities.

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“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.” — Joan of Arc (born circa January 6, 1412)

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An employee at a Zara store in Toronto's east end says she will likely quit her job and file a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission after managers gave her a hard time about her hair.

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Ebony Hughes works two jobs and still struggles to make ends meet. She is an example of the kind of worker that organizers are trying to galvanize under the banner of civil rights to raise wages.

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Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained national attention in 2013, organizers have pushed to prioritize voices of black queer and transgender women. Two of the three founders identify as queer, and along with drawing attention to numerous brutal murders of transgender women of color, they have also driven conversations on how anti-black portrayals in media and popular culture can have serious consequences on black queer and trans women’s lives.

One such portrayal is the experience of a group of black lesbians who were arrested and charged with felony gang assault and attempted murder in 2006. They’d gotten into a fight in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood with a man who they say catcalled and threatened them as they walked down the street. Local media branded the women a “wolf pack” of “killer lesbians,” one article described them as a “seething sapphic septet.” But the group, who came to be known as the New Jersey 4, claimed they’d fought back in self defense. Despite their injuries, they were sentenced to between 3 and 11 years in prison.

“The only people who have been considered the villains in this case were the…women who were attacked and followed,” said journalist Reva McEachern, who covered the story for a major newspaper in New Jersey, in a documentary film about the case. An assumed link between race, sexual orientation, gender and violence, McEachern said, “creates this environment where you are on guard because everyone around you perceives you as a threat before they know anything about you.”

The ‘Criminal’ Black Lesbian: Where Does This Damaging Stereotype Come From?

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Caption: 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City, circa 1927.

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