labor rights
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Black Exotic Dancers, Spurred by BLM Movement, Push Clubs to End Racist Workplace Practices With ‘Stripper Strike’
Ending unspoken racial quotas; enforcing equal and fair auditions; better protections across all workplaces; and providing access to the best-paying shifts are just these are some of the things that the Portland-based “stripper strike” is demanding. While Black and Latinx dancers have been calling attention to racial discrimination and unfair and unsafe labor practices in…
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These Are the Women of Color Who Fought Both Sexism and the Racism of White Feminists
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers and sex workers. In December of last year, Gloria Steinem, a woman whose name and face has come to symbolize the feminist movement of the ’60s and ’70s, spoke before the Massachusetts Women’s…