Military
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War and Disability
By Sandra Trappen Problem According to Chris Hables Gray, “wars do make men” (1997:295). And to this I might add, they make women, too. That...
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The Postconventional Ethics of Chelsea Manning
By John Stoltenberg At this moment in U.S. history, there may be no nonelected figure in the public eye whose ethics are both more respected...
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Op-Ed: The Military's Culture of Sexual Violence
By Carrie Reed Earlier this year, a monumental announcement came from Department of Defense lifting the ban on women serving in combat roles. However, women...
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The Military Rape Problem is Not About Women or Sex
By Kari O’Driscoll I may be just one more voice in the wind when it comes to this issue, but I just can’t stay quiet...
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Assata the Unflinching
by Gregory L. Caldwell and Omar Ricks Dear President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, At the risk of running afoul of the PATRIOT...
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Are Men to Be Trusted? Thoughts on Sexual Assault and the Chain of Command
By Bill Patrick This week brought the startling news of the arrest of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, the officer in charge of the Air Force’s...
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The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
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Zero Dark Thirty and the Problem of Pakistan
Zero Dark Thirty has been the subject of heated debate since its early release on Christmas Day last year. A number of reviews have focused...
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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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He’s Not the One We’ve Been Waiting For: Thoughts on Collective Effervescence, Stockholm Syndrome, Reluctant Voting, and Reclaiming “We”
“And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if...
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What Mourning Malala Yousafzai Might Mean come November 6th.
By Kim Tran Malala Yousafzai’s shooting galvanized the world, sending tens of thousands of Pakistanis to protest in the streets of Karachi last Sunday. The Taliban’s...
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Sounding Off: On Violence
By Darnell L. Moore and Isaiah M. Wooden What becomes of the voiceless, or, rather, the person whose voice is at once audible, but silenced?...
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Sophia Azeb Responds to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Examine the image above carefully. What do you see? No, it’s not a parody from The Onion. It’s actually the cover of this week’s edition...
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Antiblack Geographies, or What the Charlotte YMCA and the Confederate Military Have in Common
Did you know that Charlotte’s Central City Dowd YMCA is on the same site as the Confederacy’s North Carolina Military Institute? This does not imply...
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The Limits of Reproductive Politics: Defining Women’s Issues at the DNC
Early this morning, on the train from the Charlotte suburbs into the city center for the Democratic National Convention, I met a woman visiting the...
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Voices Marginalized at the DNC: WorldCantWait.net
Outside Community Outreach Christian Ministries, the church where Jesse Jackson is speaking for the Progressive Democrats of America, just before the Democratic National Convention. “The...
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3 Lessons from Natasha Trethewey: (Lesson 2) Making the Archive You Need
(Read Lesson 1 here.) From the series intro: When I first met Natasha Trethewey she was a visiting fellow at Duke University’s Center for Documentary...
