#TheFeministFight weekly round-up: Feminism is not dead and there is a drink available called “Date

Placed on Unpaid Leave, a Pregnant Employee Finds Hope in a New Law – The New York Times

Floralba Fernandez Espinal has worked at Unique Thrift, a national chain of thrift shops with a store in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, for two years. And for those two years, she has carried heavy piles of clothing from the storeroom to the showroom and hung them on racks. However, when she was three months pregnant, she asked her boss if she could transfer TEMPORARILY to different positions – working as a cashier or tagging clothes – so her body wouldn’t be placed under as much stress. She got a doctor’s note for her boss (like her boss asked) and was sent home on unpaid leave only three hours after providing the note. THIS WORLD IS SHIT.

SHATTERING IMAGES: Depictions of women in film – muckmire

Tune in ONE WEEK from tomorrow, February 16 at 9pm to a LIVE podcast with me and screenwriters Craig Jamison (of GullCottage Online) and Jim Delaney (of TheLunchMovie) as we discuss the television show Girls, women in film and media, and Hollywood’s depiction and sensationalism of them. Is there something you want us to talk about? Leave a comment below!

This Is My Body – Jason Stefaniak on Vimeo

Kick-ass women talking about their kick-ass bodies and the rights we have to do what we want with them. (Kudos to Jason Stefaniak for creating the video and being a man after our own hearts.)

WAITING for better wages – muckmire

The restaurant industry is a GRIND. It’s chock full of long hours, low pay, and poor benefits, and it’s only getting more difficult in this tough economy. Fortunately, earlier this week, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of NY (ROC-NY) organized a Twitter rally with the hashtag #LivingOffTipsNY to help raise awareness for restaurant wages and to urge Governor Cuomo to fulfill his promise to convene a Wage Board so that tipped restaurant workers can get a raise.

This is what rape culture customer service looks like – Feministing

The Daiquiri Factory in Spokane, Washington named its grape-flavored daiquiri “Date Grape Koolaid”. YERP!

#Body #Pregnancy #Rape