Tag: Erase

The women who refuse to be silenced: She’s had death threats, been ‘cancelled’ on TV and shunned by fellow MPs. In a rousing call to arms against those who want to erase women, MP ROSIE DUFFIELD unites a battle-hardened group of campaigners

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For over a century, International Women’s Day (IWD) has been celebrated across the globe to highlight the extraordinary achievements of ordinary women. Held annually on March 8, I used to think it was a positive day. This year, however, I just feel angry.

Although proud of the progress we’ve made, we find ourselves fighting on a new front — and in the unimaginable position of seeing hard-won rights being rolled back.

Incredibly, we’re at a point when even the word

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America’s Long Campaign to Erase Gay People Is Itself Being Forgotten

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In the summer of 1984, after he finished his first U.S. Foreign Service assignment, in Yugoslavia, Jan Krc flew to Washington, D.C., for what he thought would be a couple of weeks’ training en route to his next post, in South Africa. He thought nothing of it when he was called in for a security debriefing early one morning at the U.S. Information Agency headquarters. There, in a nondescript conference room, he was met by two middle-aged men in suits.

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