The Women's Rights Coalition at UAB

Founded in 2013. Located in Birmingham, AL. We are a progressive pro-women's group on the campus of University of Alabama at Birmingham. For more info, contact us at [email protected].

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Life is about learning and growing :)

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Photos from the Stop Telling Women to Smile opening at Betti Ono Gallery on March 7th, 2014. Photos taken by Oakland Art Enthusiast. The exhibition runs through April 19th, featuring a mural by local badass artists Jessica Sabogal and Cece Carpio.

This show features the original drawings of each portrait subject from the series. The large scale posters are of local Oakland women that I met just days before the show. You can see in this show the process of the project - small graphite drawings to large scale wheat pasted posters. 

I wasn’t able to attend the opening but I will be there next week for an artist talk on March 20, 2014. 

- TF

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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and so deep-seated, that it is invisible because it’s so normal.

Shirley Chisholm  (via racismschool)

Whooomp!!!

(via iyaricorazon)

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Modern life isn’t perfect, but there are definitely some perks—like a whole lot of options when it comes to birth control. So which methods were U.S. couples using in the days of yore, while dialing land-lines and watching Bewitched? Let’s get in the WABAC machine and find out!

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The name “Half and Halves” is derived from the same term used to describe Punjabi-Mexican individuals, typically offspring of Punjabi fathers and Mexican mothers. In the early 1900s, several hundred Punjabis immigrated as farmers to central California and came in contact with the communities of Mexican laborers. In addition to the commonality of family values, spicy-hot food, and zesty song and dance, what drew these communities together was that they were uniformly discriminated against by white society. Legislature forbidding Punjabi men from bringing wives from India and anti-miscegenation laws, which prohibited whites from marrying brown or black people, seeded familial liaisons between Punjabis and Mexicans. Not understanding what race these individuals belonged to, county clerks would simply write “brown” on marriage certificates for Punjabis and Mexicans, and thus began the integration of these two communites.

read more about the punjabi-mexican community here and here.

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Artist Leonid Afremov uses oil paint to bring warmth and light to the canvas as he paints what he sees as beautiful. "Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True art is alive and inspired by humanity."

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“The bottom line is that saying there are differences in male and female brains is just not true. There is pretty compelling evidence that any differences are tiny and are the result of environment not biology,” said Prof Rippon. “You can’t pick up a brain and say ‘that’s a girls brain, or that’s a boys brain’ in the same way you can with the skeleton. They look the same.” Prof Rippon points to earlier studies that showed the brains of London black cab drivers physically changed after they had acquired The Knowledge – an encyclopaedic recall of the capital’s streets. She believes differences in male and female brains are due to similar cultural stimuli. A women’s brain may therefore become ‘wired’ for multi-tasking simply because society expects that of her and so she uses that part of her brain more often. The brain adapts in the same way as a muscle gets larger with extra use. “What often isn’t picked up on is how plastic and permeable the brain is. It is changing throughout out lifetime. “The world is full of stereotypical attitudes and unconscious bias. It is full of the drip, drip, drip of the gendered environment.” Prof Rippon believes that gender differences appear early in western societies and are based on traditional stereotypes of how boys and girls should behave and which toys they should play with.

Men and Women Do Not Have Different Brains, Claims Neuroscientist (via thegendercritic)

Unsurprisingly….

(via rhrealitycheck)

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What you need to know about the Supreme Court birth control cases - in less than 2 minutes.

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Check out this video about the health and economic benefits of birth control and learn about what’s at stake at the Supreme Court tomorrow. 

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As we head to the Supreme court to keep bosses out of our health-care decisions, help us make a powerful statement: we’re with the 99% of women who use birth control.

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Laverne Cox Is The Woman We’ve Been Waiting For

“It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.” 

Photos by Jeaneen Lund for BuzzFeed.

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When Women Invoke ‘Stand Your Ground’ - MSNBC (Video)

IRIN CARMON: “The irony is that when people talk about the Castle Doctrine, it’s like you’re defending your own home and all the aggressors are outside. Well sometimes, the aggressors are coming from inside the house. Sometimes, you’re not safe in your own home. There’s a slightly larger burden [of proof] if you don’t have a protection order against the person who is living with you. Then you [as a woman] have to prove even more that you are under attack. Race complicates the issue even further.”

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Whip It (2009)

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Ellen. My queen. My muse. My everything. (via the Huffington Post)

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Happy 80th birthday, to women’s rights crusader Gloria Steinem! Get to know the feminist activist in this clip from Makers: http://bit.ly/1hVZD0r

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Since we started our Women's History Month on the 3rd and not on the first, it would be cool for everyone to participate with the following hashtags in the photo.

1. ‪#‎IAmMakingHistory‬: As a woman (or man), how are you making history? How are you contributing to the rights and causes of women?

2. ‪#‎MakingHistory‬: Name someone in your life that inspires you to make your own history.  You can take a photo of yourself with the hashtag and your answer.

[wrcatuab]

Hi everyone! Here is a link to the profiles we have been doing in honor of Women's History Month.