All posts tagged "World"
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For the Women of Ciudad Juárez
In late September of 2012, we gathered at the site where the remains of eight murdered women and girls were found in an open...
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Savita Halappanavar’s Bell Tolls for All Women
By Maria Faini and Kim Tran Thirty-one year old Savita Halappanavar died in late October from a miscarriage. News of her death haunts women around...
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On The Morning of the Election (Or, "Your Abstention Will Not Protect You: Voting and Radical Black Feminist Politics")
By C. Riley Snorton and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Today marks the conclusion of the voting period, which will settle numerous electoral decisions, including various seats...
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Feminists…in Pakistan?
By Madihah Akhter As the upcoming U.S. presidential election dominates the headlines, the uncomfortably familiar rhetoric prioritizing religion’s role in American politics continues. One can...
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Surgery Successful for Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year old who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan on October ninth, has undergone successful surgery to remove the bullet from...
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World Contraception Day
Today, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. And here at TFW, we invite you to consider what contraception has meant and may still mean to...
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Sophia Azeb Responds to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Examine the image above carefully. What do you see? No, it’s not a parody from The Onion. It’s actually the cover of this week’s edition...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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There Is No Water in Our Survival Kit
By Fakhra Hassan The date is 28th April, 2012. The city is Lahore. The venue is the Lahore Press Club. On behalf of the Institute...
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Go (or don't go?) Topless Day
By Marie-Laure Rives Today is Go Topless Day! GoTopless.org is a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007, claiming that women have the same constitutional right as men...
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On Being Terrorized and “Terrorist”
By Nishant Upadhyay I was born June 5, 1984 in Prince Edward Island (PEI). In Amritsar that day, Indira Gandhi ordered Indian troops to attack...
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On “America’s New Sweetheart”: Gabby Douglas, Black Performance, and Belonging
By John Murillo III Meditations on African performance and subjectivity are always already spoken by this grammar and haunted by these ghosts. For whatever...
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Reframing the Discussion: Concluding Thoughts on the Forum on Muslim Feminisms.
By Dana Olwan and Sophia Azeb For too long, Muslim feminists have endured the question of whether Islam and feminism can coexist. This seemingly innocent...
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Pot Roast and Imperial Justifications
By Amal Rana “how come you don’t cover your hair?” my breath punches out of me in one big gasp as I pretend not to hear...
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In honour of the leadership of US-born African-American/African-Caribbean/African-Latin@ Muslim women in responding to HIV/AIDS
By Prof Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé Islam can be fun! (Especially when dismantling interlocking oppressions and building just, sustainable, loving and laughing communities of resistance:...
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Court: Namibia HIV Sterilization Violated Rights
Three women of Namibia who have been diagnosed as HIV positive were coercively sterilized in violation of their basic rights, the High Court in Windhoek found...
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Salam in the City
By Sinat Giwa I’m told that I’m a stickler for formalities. My house on Rockwell Street in Chicago was its own sovereignty, where no closed doors...
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The Hijab on the Pitch
By Laurent Dubois On Friday, July 6, the French Football Federation announced that it would ban the wearing of hijab during all organized competitions held...