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Saudi Woman Files Suit Over Right to Drive
A leader of a high-profile campaign pushing for women to drive in Saudi Arabia says she’s suing traffic police in order to get a driver’s license. Manal...
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Morgellons: Mysterious Skin Disease Under Microscope
A new study sheds light on Morgellons disease, a controversial condition marked by crawling sensations in the skin. Morgellons itself is more complicated than most initially thought,...
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Facebook Features No Women on Its Board
Facebook features more than 800 million users, most of which are female, but it seems it’s female dominated network isn’t represented in its board of directors. The...
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Plan B at University Vending Machine
At Shippensburg University, getting access to Plan B, the emergency contraception pill, is as easy as getting a soda. Students can now buy the pill...
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Loyal Opposition: Why is the Left Taking the Race Bait?
By Omar Ricks …for a man whose only weapon is reason there is nothing more neurotic than contact with unreason.~Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks I...
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A Super Failure: Domestic Violence and Football's Big Game
For the longest time I have heard that Super Bowl Sunday was a day of heightened domestic violence. Linked to alcohol consumption, frustrations over the...
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When Loved Ones Vote Santorum
With elections come campaign ads, debates, town hall meetings, press releases, stump speeches, and a steady stream of political analyses unpacking each and every speech...
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A Biblical Scholar Rebuts the Claims Made in the Eddie Long Coronation Video
By Wil Gafney I am writing this response to a YouTube video circulating widely on the internet in which Eddie Long, the troubled pastor of...
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The Hunger Games
By Monica J. Casper and Mason Casper-Milam On March 23, 2012, The Hunger Games comes to cinematic life in the U.S.; the trailer promises much...
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Introducing: David J. Leonard
TFW is excited to welcome David J. Leonard to the Editorial Collective! David J. Leonard is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and...
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The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism
By: Jasbir K. Puar Israeli democracy, through its promotion of LGBT rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a...
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Welcome to the New Egyptian ParliaMENt
By Ibtisam Barakat This cartoon is a response to the astonishing fact that the number of women who won seats in the post-Mubarak Egyptian parliamentary elections...
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Why the Question of Palestine is a Feminist Concern
By Neferti X. M. Tadiar I was recently part of a fact-finding delegation to Palestine organized by the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The...
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Long-Term Worldwide Decline In Abortions Has Stalled
After a period of substantial decline, the global abortion rate has stalled, according to new research from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization...
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TFW Forum on Palestine
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, recently returned from a trip to Israel/Palestine as a member of the first LGBTQI delegation to the...
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Thinking Outside the Blockbuster: Women of Color Make Films for Real Women
By Melissa Robertson For many American filmgoers it might sound unbelievable that only about 6% of all fiction filmmakers are women. However, to both professional...
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UN Agencies Address Maternal Health In Haiti
Two years since the earthquake in Haiti UN Women and UNFPA Haiti have worked to improve conditions for women, who still face rapes and gender-based...
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Call for Submissions: Forum on Mental Health and Illness
The Feminist Wire is proud to announce that it will host a forum on mental health and illness. Because the topic of mental health can...