Politics
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Dick Cheney Part Of Marriage Equality Lobbying Effort In Maryland
Dick Cheney is part of a lobbying campaign to convince at least one Maryland state lawmaker to back marriage equality, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday. Since...
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Observations on "Austerity" from a Greek Feminist
By Sotiria Theoharis The economic “doom and gloom” in Greece is no accident, and it affects women disproportionately. Imagine being trapped by an evil financial...
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Sticks and Stones
What is the appropriate response to Die, bitch? Recently, I’ve had occasion to ponder this question and a broader cultural predicament in which all public...
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Why Roland Martin's Homophobic Tweets Shouldn't Be Ignored, Even Now
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves...
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Teenager Self-Immolates as Protests Continue
An 18-year-old Tibetan nun set herself on fire in western China in the latest protest against Beijing’s handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules. Free...
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Arizona Bill Would Impose New Abortion Restrictions
A sweeping anti-abortion bill introduced in the Arizona House would generally bar abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and impose an array of new disclosure requirements, which...
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AZ Lawmaker Suggests Holiday for White People
“I wanted to speak to you all about Latino Americans here in Arizona,” said state Rep. Richard Miranda on the House floor Monday, starting the conversation that...
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Republican Candidates To Debate Whose Sperm is More Sacred
By Soraya Chemaly In the wake of Rick Santorum’s three-state primary and caucuses win yesterday, Republican candidates have agreed to debate whose sperm is actually most sacred....
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Saudi Woman Files Suit Over Right to Drive
A leader of a high-profile campaign pushing for women to drive in Saudi Arabia says she’s suing traffic police in order to get a driver’s license. Manal...
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Facebook Features No Women on Its Board
Facebook features more than 800 million users, most of which are female, but it seems it’s female dominated network isn’t represented in its board of directors. The...
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Loyal Opposition: Why is the Left Taking the Race Bait?
By Omar Ricks …for a man whose only weapon is reason there is nothing more neurotic than contact with unreason.~Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks I...
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A Super Failure: Domestic Violence and Football's Big Game
For the longest time I have heard that Super Bowl Sunday was a day of heightened domestic violence. Linked to alcohol consumption, frustrations over the...
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When Loved Ones Vote Santorum
With elections come campaign ads, debates, town hall meetings, press releases, stump speeches, and a steady stream of political analyses unpacking each and every speech...
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A Biblical Scholar Rebuts the Claims Made in the Eddie Long Coronation Video
By Wil Gafney I am writing this response to a YouTube video circulating widely on the internet in which Eddie Long, the troubled pastor of...
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The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism
By: Jasbir K. Puar Israeli democracy, through its promotion of LGBT rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a...
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Welcome to the New Egyptian ParliaMENt
By Ibtisam Barakat This cartoon is a response to the astonishing fact that the number of women who won seats in the post-Mubarak Egyptian parliamentary elections...
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Why the Question of Palestine is a Feminist Concern
By Neferti X. M. Tadiar I was recently part of a fact-finding delegation to Palestine organized by the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The...
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Long-Term Worldwide Decline In Abortions Has Stalled
After a period of substantial decline, the global abortion rate has stalled, according to new research from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization...