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Get There: Four Electric Ghosts
Get There: A Review Four Electric Ghosts: An Opera-Masquerade by Mendi and Keith Obadike Four Electric Ghosts, the newest Opera Masquerade from digital, performance and...
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From One White Gay Male to Another: Calling out the Implicit Racism in Dan Savage's ‘Liberal’ Politics & the ‘It gets better’ Campaign"
By Kirk Grisham The recent launch of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” campaign on MTV networks is failing to gain momentum among progressives because the campaign itself...
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Face-Recognizing Billboard Shows Ad to Women Only
Plan UK, a non-profit organization that helps children in third-world countries, recently created a billboard to promote the group’s “Because I’m a Girl” campaign. The...
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Of Ambivalence: The Help, Obama, and the Ultimate Slave Re-Mix
And so here we are. In the same week, President Barack Obama became the first president in the history of Billy Graham’s “crusade,” and the...
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Militarism Through a Feminist Lens
By Stephanie Barnes A feminist perspective on military sexual trauma (MST) and the culture of rape in the U.S. armed forces is vital to the...
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Introducing: Hakima Abbas
Hakima Abbas is a political scientist, policy analyst and activist. She has been active in struggles for social justice on issues of self-determination, race, class,...
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Introducing: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA....
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Introducing: Mariko Nagai
Mariko Nagai is a graduate of New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she was the Remarque Fellow in Poetry. Her stories, poems, and translations...
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Introducing: Shubhra Sharma
Shubhra Sharma joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2010 as the Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. At Connecticut College, Shubhra teaches courses on transnational women’s movements...
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Introducing: Kevin Allred
Kevin Allred has a Bachelor’s degree from Utah State University and a Master’s degree from UMass Boston, both in American Studies. He has taught extensively in Women’s...
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Introducing: Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens. She co-edited the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color...
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Portuguese Seeking Opportunities In Former Colonies
Portugal is burdened with such big debts that some are calling it “the next Greece.” Unemployment is soaring, and the debt continues to rise, despite...
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Leading Female Politician, Activist Eyes Afghan Presidency
Fawzia Koofi, a prominent female lawmaker in Afghanistan has repeated her intention to run for her country’s presidential seat when current President Hamid Karzai’s term runs...
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Saudi Arabia's Sports Gap
In Saudi Arabia, girls and women are shut out of competitive sports, according to a just-released report by Human Rights Watch. There are no national teams for...
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‘Schoolin’ Life’: Teaching Beyoncé and Engaging Youth
Editors note: Just recently, several media outlets took to their cyber-phones, and began parsing what it meant for a cultural icon like Beyoncé to enter...
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Air Pollution Linked to Heart and Brain Risks
The impact of pollution on the heart and brain was seen over both the short and the long term. One nationwide study that followed nearly 20,000 women...
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bones
By Melissa Kiguwa nobody talks about the way losing a love does more than ache your heart, nobody sings the way this ache...
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Women Protest Anti-Abortion Bills in Virginia
Hundreds of women have locked arms and stood mute outside the Virginia State Capitol to protest a wave of anti-abortion legislation coursing through the 2012...