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Feminism Is Political Again. What's A Girlboss To Do?

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On March 4, about 500 women in downtown Los Angeles experienced time travel. These women, mostly youngish and progressive-leaning, wide-eyed and well-dressed, entered a bright, lofty industrial building just before 9 a.m. They took a freight elevator, illuminated by pink neon lights, up to the fourth floor. And for the next 12 hours, give or take, they returned to the state their lives were in before Donald Trump became a serious candidate for president.Remember those days? Before the country heard a presidential candidate say "grab 'em by the pussy"? Before November 9 became a day of mourning for most of Hillary Clinton's 65.8 million voters? Before scores of women, on the day after Trump's inauguration, became the leaders of the #resistance with a worldwide march, shaking the women's movement from its decades-long slumber?Because by President Obama's second term, there simply wasn't a women's movement, at least in the raucous political sense. Fem...

Pakistan troubled after BJP, Shiv Sena management aim to destroy Muhammad Ali Jinnah's property in Mumbai

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After BJP MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha required the demolition of the Mohammad Ali Jinnah's home in Mumbai, Pakistan requested Native indian to hand it over the property. Jinnah is known as the Dad of Country in Pakistan and the nearby country has allegedly wished to take having the ancient property for a reasonable time, according to Pakistan's Secretary of state for International Matters Representative Nafees Zakaria. The BJP MLA's reason for looking for demolition of the home was that it is a icon of Partition and the Public Works Division has been paying countless numbers of rupees to sustain it. "The Jinnah property in Southern Mumbai was the place from where the fringe movement of the Partition was born," Lodha informed the the Maharashtra Set up last month. Meanwhile, Zakaria said: "The Govt of Native indian should regard the ownership privileges of the Govt of Pakistan in connection with this. We also anticipate that the Native indian government will sati...