Resist

RESIST - Understanding Gaza
“As I learned more about the complexities of the war, my journalism became more accurate. The war’s defenders might have said I was becoming more critical, even biased. But in fact I was becoming more objective — I… reported what I saw.” - Journalist Andrew Pearson
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RESIST - Roe v. Wade
“The segment of society that wants to return us to the dark ages is real. This has to be a wake-up call, that a legal victory is not a cultural one.”-  Ana Cristina González Vélez, a Colombian doctor and co-founder of Mesa por la Vida, an organization that was part of the successful campaign for decriminalization of abortion in Colombia.
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RESIST : Gun Violence

“Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook- and ten days after Buffalo- our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies." - Barack Obama

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RESIST: ELECTION DAY

We stand alongside all women fiercely going to the polls, ready to confront and push through impediments already at our feet.

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RESIST: Our promise

Bona Drag unequivocally supports Black Lives Matter and equality for all marginalized people.

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RESIST: END POLICE BRUTALITY

“There's just so much pain, you get so tired… I mean people are worried about the looters and it's just people who are frustrated, who for far too long have not had their voices heard."   -Bakari Sellers, attorney, author and political commentator 

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RESIST: International Women's Day

We celebrate International Women's Day by recognizing not only individual achievement but garnering the power of the whole. And we relish the very proven notion, that each of has the ability to so much for all of us.

 

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RESIST: Breaking the Barrier

"Her road to success was a challenging one," said Billie Jean King, "but I never saw her back down.”

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RESIST: Equal Play, Equal Pay

“Kobe and Peyton walked away from their careers with something I didn’t have: enormous bank accounts. Because of that, they had something else I didn’t have: freedom. Their hustling days were over; mine were just beginning.”- Abby Wambach, former US Women’s Soccer player and winner of ESPY’s Icon Award in 2015

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RESIST: Advocating for LGBTQ Equality

"Those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths.“ - Author Audre Lorde

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RESIST: Pro-Choice

"Any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child." - Oklahoma State Sen. Constance Johnson in 2012

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RESIST: Urbanization and Water Scarcity

“The landscape was not a site of control; it was actually a site of a lack of control. We as a society endeavored to exert control, because it was outside of our domain.” - David Maisel, photographer

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RESIST: Support for Violence Against Women Act

“Let us reject the myth that strong women, bold women, independent women, do not find themselves in the throes of violence at the hands of someone who claimed to love them.”- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, co-sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act.

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RESIST: International Women's Day

“I think that art cannot change anything directly, it’s very difficult to change the situation with art. Art is changing people’s mind and people will change the society,” - Graffiti Artist Shamsia Hassani.

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RESIST: Global Warming

“Even as we witness devastating climate impacts causing havoc across the world, we are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough, to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the 2018 UN Climate Conference.

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RESIST: VOTE

"If they won't listen to our voices, then they'll listen to our vote" Ellen DeGeneres

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RESIST: We Believe Women

"Intimating that an assault is a mere political ploy not only offensively maligns Ms. Ford's experience, it reinforces dangerous preconceptions that shame survivors into silence," – Senator Richard Blumenthal.

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RESIST: Freedom of the Press

“What they fear most is that my example [of speaking out against deceit and corruption] will prove contagious"- Cuban journalist Yoani Sanchez

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RESIST: Asylum and Zero Tolerance in the United States

“It is almost certain that women will be killed as a result of this decision that will return them to their abusers.” -Denise Gilman, director of the immigration clinic at the University of Texas Law School

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RESIST: Black Women and Health Care

“Blackinfants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when most black women were considered chattel.”- Linda Villarosa writing for New York Times Magazine

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RESIST: Women as Political Machine

"Today is also a day that we rededicate ourselves to defending the rights and improving the lives of women here in the United States and around the world.” – Congresswoman Maxine Waters as shown with Coretta Scott

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