All posts by Guest Contributor
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Supreme Court To Decide Constitutionality Of Health Law
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear over five hours of arguments regarding the Health Care Reform Law. The lawsuit, brought by...
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Paid-Leave Benefits Lagging For Working Moms In US
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro A Census Bureau analysis shows that women given time off for pregnancy, birth and child care has leveled off. Currently, about half...
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The Language of War
The last few months have been received by most as a foreign policy boon for our fledgling sitting President. In a global climate dominated by...
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Security/Safety Concerns about Occupy Wall Street
By Linda Martín Alcoff The Oakland occupation was shut the last week of October, albeit temporarily, on the grounds of concerns about safety and...
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Preventing the Undesirables: Forced Sterilization & Eugenics in the US and Abroad
If you enjoy the luxury of living under a rock, you may have missed the news that the planet’s population has reached (and now exceeded)...
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Citing new research, psychology group supports gay marriage
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro The American Psychological Association (APA) announced its full support for same-sex marriages and unions. Numerous studies have shown that GLBT individuals desire...
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Mississippi's Initiative 26 Challenges Women's Personhood
By Kalen Young “Alabama’s got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississsippi Goddam…” Little did anyone assume...
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Why HPV Vaccination Of Boys May Be Easier
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro When the CDC recommended pre-teen and teen girls get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), a wave of outrage was voiced. Only...
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Asylum Suitcases, Found And Photographed
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro Photographer Jon Crispin was given free reign in the 1980s to go through the countless belongings left behind in New York’s abandoned...
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New Jackie Kennedy tapes offer White House insight
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro Tapes recently released by Caroline Kennedy of her mother, Jacqueline, will be scrutinized and analyzed by historians for years. The tapes give...
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It’s About Time: FBI Begins Process to Redefine Rape
By Ally Karsyn Countless cases of sexual assault are excluded from federal statistics each year. Since 1927, the FBI has been using the same definition...
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Soup Maker for the Masses
By S. Buchalter There was a time, that I was on the front lines or behind the fences, in the dark, at night, climbing over...
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Court asked to block new Arizona abortion law
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro The Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence and ACLU of Arizona are asking the federal court to prevent a new state abortion law from...
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SlutWalk from the Margins
By Destiny Birdsong, Donika Ross, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Nikki Spigner On October 2, 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee, hundreds of people gathered for SlutWalk Nashville. Merely one...
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Study Links New Birth Control Pills, Blood Clots
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro A recent study conducted by the FDA of 880,000 women found that women taking the Yaz birth control pill are 75% more likely...
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Obama Still Has the Black Vote
By Nicole A. Spigner New York Time’s Helen Cooper reported today that black voters largely remain firmly in support of Barak Obama’s re-election—all of this...
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Rap & Wall Street
Critics from Fox News to feminist groups have argued that the violence, blatant sexism and idolization of drugs and criminal behavior found in rap lyrics...
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Featured Filmmaker: Nev Nnaji
Nev Nnaji’s “Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights” reflects upon the marginalization of black women in the Black Power and Feminist movements and raises...