Culture
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Women Ask for Health Advice on Rick Perry's Facebook Page
Rick Perry’s Facebook page is drawing thousands of comments pointedly taking him to task for cutting off federal funds for women’s health programs because some clinics...
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Saudi Women Allowed to Compete in London Olympics
A Saudi Arabian newspaper says Crown Prince Nayef has approved plans for the country to send female athletes to the Olympics for the first time...
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Black Girls Run! Friendship, Community, and Sisterhood (Part 2)
Go here to read Part 1 Whereas gyms often feel like places of tremendous judgment, with its pictures of hard, slender bodies on their walls,...
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Important Record for Female Congressional Rep
Now in her fifth decade of public service, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) has been in office long enough to see many milestones come and go....
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Personhood For Women: Is this Personal Enough?
By Soraya Chemaly Melissa McEwan recently started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that “a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full,...
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Mother Roots
Mother. Womb of life. Nine months we devour your roots. Screaming we suck your trunk. Waking we demand your attention. Laughing we beg you to...
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Who’s going to sing a black boys’ song?
For Trayvon, Michael and Martin, and all other black boys sable mappings cover him like an ethno-alien cartogram dipped deeply and precisely in ebony...
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Women Use Graffiti Art to Protest Egyptian Government
After playing an integral part of the revolutionary efforts last year, Egyptian women fear their rights will not be incorporated into the country’s political reforms....
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Violence Against Women Act Comes Under Fire
Republican aides emphasize that their bosses are not against the Violence Against Women Act, originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized at least twice by Congress....
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Black Girls Run! Friendship, Community, and Sisterhood (Part 1)
On the website “Stuff White People Like,” marathons are listed as #27. It describes running a marathon in the following way: To a white person,...
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Women Experiencing Discrimination in Agricultural Industry
Women around the world are doing incredible amounts of labor-intensive work to ensure their own survival and the survival of their families. The opportunity to...
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Can Black Feminism Be (Quantified)?: A State/ment (Part 1 of 4)
“Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of personal sacrifice, militancy and work by our mothers and sisters.” “We have found it difficult...
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Why Ethnic Studies Matters
By Arizona Ethnic Studies Network On February 29, 2012, members of the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network held a Read-in at Wesley Bolin Plaza across from...
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Rick Santorum to Puerto Rico: "Speak English"
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on Wednesday they would have to make English their primary language if they want to pursue U.S....
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Classifying Grief as a Mental Illness
Is grief a disease? That is one of the crucial questions psychologists are asking as the American Psychiatric Association revises its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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Celebrating International Women's Day
Today, in partnership with more than 200 organizations and individuals, TFW is blogging for social justice. Gender Across Borders and CARE are sponsoring the Third...
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Inspiring Girls to Author Their Own Lives
By Vali Forrister When my niece, Haviland, was 12 years old, she shared her poetry with me for the first time. I told her it...
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Noumenal Woman
A fabulous poem for International Women’s Day 2012. This time a poem inspired by, and dedicated to, Maya Angelou and phenomenal women everywhere. ...