All posts by Guest Contributor
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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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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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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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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...
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Roe v. Wade's 40th Anniversary
By Rachel G. Fuchs This week, we commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed women the fundamental human...
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Three Poems
by Alessandra Lynch mademoiselles d’avignon The one we look at as the one cursed hangs her orange beast-face, a block for a...
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Dismantling the Anti-Life Alliance
By Maria Faini In Marietta, Ohio, on an October afternoon just prior to the recent Presidential election, Tea Party and Catholic protesters confronted Nuns on...
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Yes, I Do Look Like A Lawyer
By Maria Angela Johnson I have been an attorney for six years. Nonetheless, when I tell someone what I do, too often I hear this...
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Poem Feature: "Moviemakers"
by e nina jay moviemakers are so clever and so programmed we are one cannot watch one hour of television live one day...
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E(race)sure, Queerness, and Civil Rights in the South: The Undocubus and the Legacy of Bayard Rustin
By Brittany D. Chávez As a queer woman of color artist-scholar-activist living in the U.S. South, I am deeply invested in historical legacies of queer...
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Cheryl Clarke: Selected Poems
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? Black Men (always in progress) living as a lesbian on 49’s final eve ...
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Elite Women Won’t Help Us All Have it All
By Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Michele Tracy Berger, and Julia Jordan-Zachery Anne-Marie Slaughter is right! Women can’t have it all, particularly not if our hope for having...
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In Defense of Pole Dancing
By Kira Jane Admitting to it causes the first onset of swine flu-like symptoms: the beads of sweat, searchlight eyeballs, shivers to rival a damp...