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Op-Ed: Women, Rape, and Lack of Toilets
By Sunil Bhatia In the aftermath of the gruesome gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapist in New Delhi, the Government of India set...
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Some Concluding Thoughts on Violence Against Women in the U.S. and India
By Julie A. Hagstrom My perspective comes from a long career as a community and statewide advocate for domestic and sexual violence victims in Michigan....
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“If You Are Now Saying, No, Women Are Equal…”
By Amita Chudgar The day after our teach-in, on January 24th, 2013, the airwaves and newspapers were filled with the announcement that the U.S. Pentagon...
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Urban Spaces Are Conducive to Sexual Violence: The Case of Delhi
By Meski Glegzaibher While the events that have inspired our gathering were horrific, it is important to note that they are neither isolated nor unique...
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This is War! Reflections on the Delhi Gang Rape
By Soma Chauduri It has been difficult for me to write or even to comment on the horrific and barbaric gang rape of a 23-year...
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A Timeline of Events in the Delhi Gang-Rape Case
By Karin Zitzewitz I begin with a brief timeline of the attack, the protests that followed it, and then offer some suggestions first about how...
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Rape in India: Domestic and Global Politics
By Soma Chaudhuri, Amita Chudgar, Meski Glegziabher, Julie Hagstrom, Sean Pue, and Karin Zitzewitz On January 23, 2013, the Asian Studies Center and the Center...
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Women in Combat: Potential for Progress in the Armed Services
By Kalen Young, with Joshua Young As a feminist, mother, partner of an infantry officer, and human rights scholar, I was perplexed when Defense Secretary...
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Introducing: Edward (Eddie) Ndopu
Born to a South African freedom fighter mother who fled from the Apartheid regime to Namibia under self-imposed exile, Edward (Eddie) Ndopu is a dis/abled...
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Introducing: Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College. Her teaching and research focus on feminism, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity (black...
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Introducing: TC Tolbert
TC Tolbert is a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. TC is Assistant Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, adjunct instructor at University of Arizona...
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Feminists We Love: Jamilah Lemieux
Jamilah Lemieux is the News & Lifestyle Editor for EBONY.com. In 2005, she created the award-winning blog, The Beautiful Struggler, where for more than six years, she published meditations on race...
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Rethinking Women in Combat
By Kim Tran Last Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta further integrated the armed forces by lifting a 1994 ban barring female service members from...
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A Black Feminist Comment on The Sisterhood, The Black Church, Ratchetness and Geist
There’s been much talk about TLC’s new show The Sisterhood, a reality show about the lives and struggles of Ivy Couch, Domonique Scott, Christina Murray, DeLana Rutherford,...
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Op-Eds at The Feminist Wire
Here at The Feminist Wire, we like to roll with the punches, grow with the times, and reinvent ourselves when necessary and fruitful. This week,...
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Op-Ed: Abortion Rights Advocates Need to Knock Roe from its Pedestal
By Lynne Huffer “It’s Personal,” the new abortion rights campaign of the National Women’s Law Center, hinges on language like this: “Only you know what...
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Shades of Darkness—And Now A Sliver of Light
Today, January 26, 2013, marks India’s 64th anniversary as a republic. It is not an old republic if seen in “nation” years but definitely old...
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Victory
By Erica Cardwell In grade school, we used a phonics book called the Victory Drill Book. It was filled with various words, prefixes, suffixes, and...