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Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. (Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?)
Nicholas K. Peart, 23, knows all too well what it means to be simultaneously blotted by race and gender. He has been stopped and frisked by New York City...
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1 in 3 Women Affected by Partner's Violent Behavior
More than one in three women have experienced sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a Centers...
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The New Full-Frontal: Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?
Carrie Bradshaw, Hugh Hefner, and Barbie have each contributed to this generation’s ideal woman, who is athletic, alluring, and waxed… So… What’s happening to America’s...
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The GOP’s Christian Nationalist Faith Pimps
In American politics, patriotism, race-baiting, and faith-based pandering are the last refuge of a scoundrel. And this political season militant GOP appeals to white Christian...
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Black women were hit hard with job losses in economic crisis
After the health-care company where Linda Evans worked relocated outside the Washington area, she spent two years searching for another job. But nothing panned out....
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On Location: The “I” in the Intersection
The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and...
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Jerry Sandusky's wife says accusers are lying
In a statement released by her attorney, Dottie Sandusky claims her husband is innocent of sex abuse and the accusers are lying. I want to thank...
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Why I Might Watch Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
While Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, a televisual extension of Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, runs against...
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Criminal Fashions: The Hermeneutics of Hip-Hop Aesthetics
The hip hop aesthetic has recently made its way to the cover of Vogue Italia, one of the most influential magazines of the fashion world....
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H&M Chooses Cyborgs over Humans
The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and “completely virtual,” the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display...
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The Case For Peeking Inside The Slaughterhouse
A new report from the National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of Sciences) argues that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety...
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Women Are Aggressors in Household Violence Too
It’s not just boys and men who are aggressive, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett in “The Truth About Girls and Boys.” But in...
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Some Combat Dogs Suffer Post-Traumatic Stress, Too
The United States military has long used canines to assist in times of war. Dogs help troops sniff out bombs, clear buildings and locate enemy...
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A Manifesto: The Silence of HIV, Killing Us Slowly
By Monique Howard When you read this, read it in a loud voice. I am screaming, ranting, trying to be heard over the din of the...
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Video: 16 year old Jane Schmidt and another unnamed student asks Michele Bachmann about LGBT rights and bullying
“All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights,” Bachmann told Jane Schmidt, 16, who identified herself as a...
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From "Temp Job" to Career: A Quarter Century in the Fight Against HIV
By Al Cunningham My perspective on HIV prevention continues to be driven by the circumstances under which I became involved in this work 25 years...
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HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values
Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post that new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health...
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Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondent, feminist satirist and media critic Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of...