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Predator priests will only face justice when those they abused find the courage to speak up

"We also have to be willing to keep telling our stories because when we have a seat at the table, we can bring stories of our communities to the forefront," said Myya Jones, a 23-year-old candidate for the Michigan State House.

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My goal isn’t to drag Junot Diaz, nor is it to excuse him. My goal is to end sexual violence against women and girls.

Let's put Black, women of color, Indigenous, anti-capitalist and queer-centered feminist politics at the heart of the overall struggle for justice in the coming year. What could that look like?

A year before #MeToo erupted in the United States, women in Argentina were fighting against an epidemic of violence against women in which, on average, one woman is killed every 30 hours.

Angela Davis’s feminism was born through Marxism, and through theory and collective struggles as well. These two steps opened the road for a feminism that includes poor and black women, standing out against mainstream white, bourgeois feminism. It is not even possible to speak of a white feminism anymore, not only in the USA, but also in Europe. Europe is no longer a white continent.

This conversation should be bigger than Aziz Ansari.