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Police Rescue 24,000 Women, Children from Chinese Sex Trafficking Ring
A year after the Chinese government started targeting human trafficking, the country’s security ministry reported that in the last year police had rescued 24,000 women...
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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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Women Pay More for Health Insurance
Women still pay more than men for the same health insurance coverage, according to new research and data from online brokers. While new health care...
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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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Coming Into Consciousness
By Miani Giron In the three years that I’ve been involved in the Women’s Leadership Project (WLP) my awareness and outlook on social issues have...
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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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Wisconsin Legislators Tie Single Parenthood to Child Abuse
As if it weren’t hard enough already to be a single mom — or dad — a new bill in Wisconsin is associating single parenthood...
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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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The System is What's Crazy
Shortly after starting my graduate program at Arizona State University, it became clear I would need to go back on medication for anxiety. Diagnosed for...
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Living with Mentally Ill Parents
By J. Victoria Sanders Walking with my mom, Maggie, as a kid, I heard someone call her crazy. She wore her black wigs until, with...