Episode 17: Women’s History Month – The US Edition with PerSister Amy Drayer

Grab your chocolate (lots of chocolate!) and listen to Bea, Liz and special guest Amy talk about all the things from reproductive freedom, to the suffragette movement, to retirement poverty.

Amy Drayer is an activist, author, and feminist. She has written for The Huffington Post, Medium, and is currently working on a novel and worked on progressive political campaigns and issues throughout her career.

We hope you enjoy our discussion of the history of the women’s movement, where we are now, and our hopes for an intersectional future.

Sources:

Sources

Reproductive Rights

• https://prochoice.org/
• https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/
• https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
• https://www.kff.org/

Healthcare

• Maternal Mortality Rate – https://www.npr.org/series/543928389/lost-mothers
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores,_Inc.
• Insurance
  • Intersection with Repro rights – for many women, PP, gyno / OBG clinic is their only access to regular healthcare – intersection with SES
• https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/ten-ways-that-the-house-american-health-care-act-could-affect-women/
• https://www.kff.org/

Sexual Discrimination and Harrassment

• http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/
• http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-me-too-timeline-20171208-htmlstory.html
• https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567430106/for-years-anita-hill-was-a-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-women-speaking-out

Pay Gap

• https://donate.9to5.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009
• https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-female-face-of-poverty/282892/
• https://iwpr.org/publications/gender-wage-gap-2016-earnings-differences-gender-race-ethnicity/
• https://www.aauw.org/aauw_check/pdf_download/show_pdf.php?file=The-Simple-Truth
• https://iwpr.org/publications/gender-wage-gap-2016-earnings-differences-gender-race-ethnicity/

Intimate Partner Abuse

• http://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/who-can-have-a-gun/domestic-violence-firearms/
• https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/15-facts-that-show-how-guns-make-domestic-violence-even-deadlier/
• https://ncadv.org/

Poverty

• The (Bill) Clinton welfare reform bill – massively opposed by women’s rights groups. Democrats don’t always get it right (though they are a hellavu lot better). See also the omnibus crime bill that launched the mass incarceration plague.
• https://nwlc.org/resources/women-and-poverty-state-state/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-female-face-of-poverty/282892/
• https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2008/10/08/5103/the-straight-facts-on-women-in-poverty/

What now?

• Intersection with #metoo – https://www.npr.org/2017/11/15/564405871/me-too-legislation-aims-to-combat-sexual-harassment-in-congress
• Working for change – intersection with repro rights. https://www.emilyslist.org/ . When I was working in choice and doing scorecards, it absolutely stood out how D pro-choice women were also much more reliable across the feminist platform – guns, enviro, healthcare, etc. It’s a real litmus test on ideology.
• http://www.sheshouldrun.org/ – post Women’s March surge in women running for office
• https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/women-candidates-2018-elections.html – post Women’s March surge – first time women won 40% of their races in 17, compared with a historical average of 10%.
• https://www.salon.com/2018/02/22/why-we-need-black-feminism-more-than-ever-under-trump_partner/
• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lindsay-hoffman/black-woman-white-movemen_b_8569540.html
• http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html
• http://intersectionalfeminism101.tumblr.com/faq
• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectional-feminism_us_598de38de4b090964296a34d

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-third-wave-of-feminism-is-now-and-it-is-intersectional_us_586ac501e4b04d7df167d6a8

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