Op-Ed
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Op-Ed: Don’t Call Me “Dude”
By Matt Graber Please don’t call me “man” or “dude” any longer. I will not join you in friendship or partnership on a male-supremacist, patriarchal project....
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Op-Ed: Not Okay, Uncle Rush
By Darrian Wesley Thomas Dear Uncle Rush, Pull up a chair. We need to handle some family business. So, I saw the “Harriet Tubman Sex...
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Op-Ed: Black Elders Need to Stop Demonizing Black Youth
By Aaron Talley Sometimes, I shudder to think that many of the Black elders fighting against Trayvon Martin’s death might have actually held the same...
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Op-Ed: How to be Black in the Age of Obama, George Zimmerman, and Paula Deen: Notes from Summer, 2013
Welcome to the impossible future. White people are talking about race. Sometimes, they’ll even talk about racism. Some will say the word “racism” hesitantly,...
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Op-Ed: The Responsibility of Virgins
By Jeniece L. Carter In the year 2013, I am proud to be a virgin. I find no embarrassment in saying I am pure and have...
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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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Op Ed: Paternalism, Not Protection: A Feminist Reassessment of the Burqa and Niqab
By Aicha Marhfour Yesterday, I opened a Facebook message from an old friend, touched that she was thinking of me after many years. But the...
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Op-Ed: Legal Birth Control: An Overlooked Milestone
By Annet Ruiter This month marks the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down a state law that...
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Op-Ed: Debating Abortion
By Wanda Kolomyjec I find myself debating women, and I am weary. They speak of their belief that abortion might be murder, that it is...
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Op-Ed: Are Black People More Homophobic Than White People?
By Sidney Fussell Simply put, no. Black people are not “more” homophobic than white people. That’s a myth. But here I want to unpack what...
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Op-Ed: Why We Should Ditch the Slow Food Movement
By Karen Hernandez Apparently, pursuing Women’s Right’s has led to the downfall of the American diet. At least, this is what Michael Pollan unfairly implies...
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Op Ed: An Open Letter to the Mainstream LGBT Movement
“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.” – Audre Lorde Dear Mainstream LGBT Movement,...
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Op Ed: Defying Antiblackness at UC Irvine—and Everywhere
By John Murillo III The University of California, Irvine’s Black Student Union continues to act in response to one instance in a lengthy genealogy of...
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Op-Ed: Inconceivable! Detaching Motherhood from Femininity
By Nicole Verdes Last week, Isabella Dutton, a 57-year-old mother of two in the United Kingdom, wrote a first-person story for the Daily Mail wherein she...
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Op-Ed: Egg Freezing: WTF?*
By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying...
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Op-Ed: Marriage Might Be the End of the Gay Community
By Jia Hui Lee In these austere times, marriage conveniently allows for managing illness and economic need within the private sphere, as required by contemporary...
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Op-Ed: Putting Violence Against Women on ‘Display’
By Laura Odenthal At first glance Syria, India, and the U.S. have little in common. However, even with their potentially divisive geographic locations and ideological...
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Op-Ed: Jack Johnson and the Racial Politics of a Presidential Pardon
On March 5, U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Peter King (R-NY) put forth a resolution...
