At the first Daisy Chain Fields festival, the 23-year-old pop star presented a cross-generational vision of female empowerment. (With Taco Bell activations, too.)
Category: Women’s Rights
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields: A New Feminist Music Festival Takes Shape
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In ‘9 to 5,’ Dolly Parton Put a Friendly Face on Feminism
The New York Times – On the Runway:In 1980, feminists were often stereotyped as man-hating or out of touch. Then Parton gave the movement a boost — and an anthem.
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These Conservatives Want to Be Working Moms. The Manosphere Disapproves.
The New York Times – On the Runway:At a conservative center for women leaders, interns told stories about their lives. One said a male classmate told her, “I don’t know if women should be lawyers.”
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The Barbie Backlash
The New York Times – On the Runway:‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Barbie’ show a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood: The hero’s narrative is corroding our political and public life.
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The Iranian YouTube Show Posing Questions Few Dare Ask
The New York Times – On the Runway:Azad, a popular online debate program, has tackled topics that push the limits of Iran’s authoritarian system. Some question how it has remained on air.
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Does My Face-Lift Make Me a Bad Feminist?
The New York Times – On the Runway:I, like many a young woman, was once wildly judgmental about plastic surgery. Now I’m not so sure.
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How Shania Twain Won Over Gen Z
The New York Times – On the Runway:The pop-country megastar is still thrilling young audiences and influencing a new generation of musicians.
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Jennifer Finch, Scalding Bassist for Alt-Rock Band L7, Dies at 59
The New York Times – Music:Often performing barefoot, she provided the thunder for a breakout feminist band of the 1990s, which had an alternative hit with “Pretend We’re Dead.”
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Phyllis Lee Levin, Times Fashion Reporter and Biographer, Dies at 104
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.
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Fighting for Femininity, Not Feminism on the New Women’s Right
A group of young conservatives feel that the pressures they face as 20-something women have been made worse by the liberal feminism that defined their youth.
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Patricia Crowther, Who Brought Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, Dies at 97
As a high priestess of Wicca, a branch of modern paganism founded in England, she promoted an image of witches as early feminists who were benevolent and spiritual.