{"id":6236,"date":"2013-06-27T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:46:10","slug":"quick-hit-feminism-in-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2013\/06\/27\/quick-hit-feminism-in-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hit: Feminism in the Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Live, from the land of Betty Friedan&#8217;s homestate and the birthplace of radical feminist cells like Chicago Women&#8217;s Liberation Union and the West Side Group, it&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/chifemsaction.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> ChiFems<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, I spoke on a ChiFems panel moderated by Christine Gallagher Kearney along with my fellow Girl w\/Penner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivalafeminista.com\/p\/about-contact-info.html\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Arreola<\/a>, my fellow OpEd Project maven Claudia Garcia-Rojas, and fabulous feminist (and OpEd Project alum) <a href=\"http:\/\/smallstrokesbigoaks.com\/about-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Lauren Samsa <\/a>about feminism in the Midwest, past, present, future.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/chifemsaction.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ChiFems<\/a> is a part-social, part-activist group that aims to bring Chicago feminists together to build relationships and work together to create change.\u00a0 I adore them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video. Note: we didn&#8217;t all plan to wear jean jackets. Perhaps it&#8217;s a Midwestern thing?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msGPbKgNqTg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live, from the land of Betty Friedan&#8217;s homestate and the birthplace of radical feminist cells like Chicago Women&#8217;s Liberation Union and the West Side Group, it&#8217;s ChiFems! Earlier this month, I spoke on a ChiFems panel moderated by Christine Gallagher Kearney along with my fellow Girl w\/Penner Veronica Arreola, my fellow OpEd Project maven Claudia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21107],"tags":[46,245,17276],"class_list":["post-6236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mama-w-pen","tag-activism","tag-feminism","tag-organizing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}