All posts by Guest Contributor
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Reflections on the Palestinian Hunger Strike and Our Collective Liberation
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Hunger strikes have historically been used as a form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest. Liberation movements in the United States protesting...
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Why I Got Straight Married: On Love, Heterosexism, and Fear in Post-9/11 America
By Aarati Kasturirangan Fear One week after 9/11, still reeling from the trauma of the attacks, I walked to my bus stop and glanced furtively...
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Creating a Biological Underclass: A Reality of Poverty for HIV+ Women
By Sonia Rastogi Hype of the HIV epidemic in the U.S. has died down in the media and in the minds of many Americans. What...
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Gender Taxes: American Women Are $1.5 Million Poorer By Age 65
By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Every single working day of the year, American women pay a 22.6 percent gender tax on their income. By...
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Race, Mad Men, and Nostalgia
By Claire Oberon Garcia Like three million other Americans, I eagerly looked forward to the return of Mad Men. I love the show. But as...
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A Girl Named Ally: A Play in One Act
Based on the true story by Emily Schorr Lesnick INTERIOR. COFFEE SHOP- DAY ENTER SLEEPY-LOOKING ESL IN SLAVE TO THE GRIND, GENERIC GRUNGY COFFEE...
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On "Liberated Sex" and Other Myths
By Breanne Fahs At my book reading in New York last month, renowned sex therapist and activist Leonore Tiefer told me (in her brilliantly frank...
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I'm Not Your Spicy Latina
By Shantyana C. Lledin I am a Hispanic woman. What I am not is someone who wants to be fetishized for this. I am not...
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Just a Distraction?: The Pley Club and the Sexual Politics of U.S. Power
By Theresa Runstedtler “We let the boss down.” That was the Joint Chief of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey’s response to the sex scandal involving...
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Man v. Food: Representations of Meat and Masculinity
By Mari Kate Mycek While watching Man v. Food, I observed a very interesting relationship between men and non-human animals. The situations I’m going to describe...
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Women Running: Kelly Westlund
Name: Kelly Westlund Candidate for: Ashland (Wisconsin) City Council Interviewed by: Wanda Kolomyjec Why are you running for office? I believe that the...
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What Year IS this Anyway?: Musings of an Ex-Catholic as Politicians and Priests Fight over Women’s Reproductive Rights
By Mary Jean Ronan Herzog I am a Mary. I was named after the Blessed Virgin. Born into a Catholic family, as the first daughter...
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Uterine Fibroids: Knowing and Trusting the Signs
By Camille Wanliss Ortiz The pain shooting through my lower abdomen felt like it would never end. By the second day, it had gotten so...
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ADOPTING DEPRESSION
By Jennifer Givhan I couldn’t have had post-partum depression. Yet I did. I, a depressed mother. Adoptive mother. Ashamed mother. Heavy with pressure; mercury in...
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Anti-Gay Marriage Group's Black Strategy Has Long History
By Kenyon Farrow Last week LGBT rights advocates went into a state of shock when Human Rights Campaign (HRC) revealed documents by its arch-nemesis, the...
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The War on Women: A Progressive Man’s View
By Vincent Martin A (self-admitted) conservative male acquaintance recently asked me what the War on Women means. Herein I will attempt to answer him. First, let...
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Selling Sex (and Justice) in Orleans Parish
By Joseph J. Fischel ~sex for sale Until last week, selling anal and oral sex in Louisiana was a registerable sex offense, on par with...
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Gender Equity Still Requires a Focus on the “Second Shift”
By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Lucky enough to attend college, I sat in a first-year seminar meant to expose students to a variety of...