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![Workers United [formerly the ILGWU] commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 2011. Photo: RJ Mickelson](https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/oldmedia/0010/file-10828-media-300x300.jpg "Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: a Memorial for a Defining Moment")
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: a Memorial for a Defining Moment
The fire that killed 146 women in 1911 sparked a movement that helped to improve working conditions in factories across the US. Today, it is still important to remember and raise awareness regarding workers' rights. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire's annual commemoration and the soon-to-be built memorial will serve that end. (In Italiano).
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Our Day is Today. The Step IT Up for Gender Equality Walk on March 8
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The Art, Power and Vision of Helena Rubinstein at New York’s Jewish Museum
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Stitch by Stitch: Nina Piscopo’s “Art of Lounging” and the Shirt Dress. An Italian American Story
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Tight, Holy and Wholly. The Fight against Female Genital Mutilation
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History of women’s lives and their stuff in Alice Austen’s pictures
You cannot rewrite the past, but you can reinterpret it, and through the images of the past we can stop and create new trajectories in the present. In the history of women photographers the material culture, brings to the fore new presences. I would like to talk about one of these, Alice Elizabeth Austen whose house on Staten Island is now a museum (Leggi in italiano)
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The UN on Child Brides. The Fight for Young Girls to Have their own Rights
Roughly 1.8 billion youths, between the ages of 10 and 24, live in the world today – and nearly half (880 million) are females. Of that amount, 700 million were married before their 18th birthday. About 250 million girls were placed in marriages before they turned 15, 39,000 girls are forced to marry every day, some as young as eight years old. (Leggi un articolo sullo stesso argomento in Italiano)
