
By Evren Savci It has been almost two weeks since May 28th, when the residents of Istanbul started protesting the urban renewal project instigated by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (RTE), which would replace Taksim Gezi Park situated at the city center with a shopping mall and with restored Ottoman barracks. The peaceful protests that...
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By Brook Dorff AVERAGED is a collection of photographs and personal histories taken in Andhra Pradesh, India. The documentation of stories and images in the exhibit directly challenge data published by international organizations like the United Nations, especially with regard to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I hope that everyone who views the collection...
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Tags: child marriage, fistula, girls' education, Human Rights, India, MDGs, safe drinking water, sexual violence, structural violence, Violence, violence against women, World, Youth
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By Bo Luengsuraswat One decade is a long time. Ten years. One-zero. It’s the beginning of the next digit. A transition. One decade is a vast space. Constantly shifting, warping into different shapes, rolling across landscapes. One decade is a great distance, yet unpredictably proximate. It will be one decade this fall. One decade...
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Tags: Family, Immigration, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Thai food, Thai language, Thailand, U.S., World
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by Gregory L. Caldwell and Omar Ricks Dear President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, At the risk of running afoul of the PATRIOT act, we declare that we still love and respect Assata Shakur no matter what you say. Black people are in a new nadir, and Assata Shakur comes out of...
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Tags: African American, armed resistance, Assata, BLA, black community relations, Black freedom struggle, Black Liberation Army, Black Panther, Black women revolutionaries, BPP, Cuba, Dhoruba, Jena 6, jena six, maroon, police, police corruption, robert charles, rosewood, Shakur, terrorism, Tookie, Williams
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Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s wound Assata you like stripped bone road unaware of which exit is free birth brown coagulated rhythm redefined reborn rumba queen Assata dusk breath unaware of next exhalation’s...
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By Kelly Sharron and Abraham Weil Laura Briggs is the chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. We had the opportunity to speak with her about her latest book, Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption, an interdisciplinary text that analyzes transracial and transnational adoption,...
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Tags: adoption, Baby Veronica, Family, History, Immigration, LGBT politics, Politics, Reproduction, reproductive politics, single mothers, transnational adoption, transracial adoption, U.S., Youth
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By Jawahara Saidullah “Kya maal hai.” What good stuff. “Bilkul sahi cheez yaar.” Absolutely, great stuff, man. Maal means, stuff, thing, or merchandise. So does cheez. This common male conversation on the streets of North India is usually conducted over-loudly so that the ‘stuff’ being talked about can hear it. It is almost always...
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Tags: Activism, Adria Richards, cannibalism, Chand Bibi, Delhi rape, Durga, India, Indian goddesses, Jyoti Singh Pandey, rape culture, sexual violence, U.S., violence against women, World
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By Ariane Beckman A few months ago, The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper published at my school, Colorado College, published an article entitled “Why I Love Capitalism, and Why You Should, Too!” To be clear, I don’t exactly hate capitalism. Go on, you capitalism lovers! Buy your new iPhone! Spend your money! I participate...
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Tags: California, capitalism, China, Communism, democracy, minimum wage, north korea, poverty, privilege, socioeconomic status, South Korea, the world bank
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By Purvi Shah The work of ending violence and enabling gender equity is hard. The victories are too rare, the celebrations too brief. And so I participated with joy in a dance flash mob at New York City’s Washington Square Park as part of the One Billion Rising events this Feb. 14, 2013. Not...
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Tags: age, Bollywood, Ethnicity, Gender, movement, one billion rising, Violence
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By Lynn Gehl − Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe Recently I stated that unless “we” stand behind the person who is most oppressed, “we” will not gain the genuine solidarity needed. This is because the more oppressed person needs to know that when the more privileged person gets what s/he needs, that s/he will continue to stand behind...
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Tags: allyship, Black Women, Canada, feminism, indigenous women, Louise C.K., Peggy McIntosh, social stratification, solidarity, Tim Wise, transgendered women, White Women, Women of color, women with disabilities, World
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