Politics
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Red Summer Turned Blue
The days are growing shorter, the new school year has started, and Halloween products have begun appearing on store shelves. Summer is well and truly...
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The Revolution Might Not Be Televised (but it might be on Facebook)
For ten days people have been on Wall Street as part of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest and major U.S. media outlets have been nearly...
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Begatting and Begetting: The Issue(s) of Men
By Lisa Jean Moore and Monica J. Casper Semen. Vas deferens. Penis. Scrotum. Glans. Ejaculation. Testes. Prostate gland. Epididymis. Seminal vesicles. Pubic hair. Erectile function. Falling...
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Tamar and Troy, or, When Can We Cry?
By Ashon Crawley But when brought them near to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me,...
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Gloria Steinem and "NO! The Rape Documentary"
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons Gloria Steinem is a Second Wave White Feminist pioneer who, for over 40 years and counting, has been at the forefront...
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A Message from the Editors Concerning the Execution of Troy Anthony Davis
We join millions of Americans in expressing our profound sorrow tonight that despite recantations and substantial doubt concerning his guilt, the state of Georgia has...
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Dunham in the Air: A Reflection on Radical Choreographies and Programming Social Justice
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. Retrograde I was on my way to Santa Fe last summer marveling at the technology that allowed me to be...
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The Women in Tahrir Square
Editor’s Note: In light of the most recent examples of resistance and protest in Egypt, we offer this reminder and analysis of events earlier in the year. Let us keep...
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The Myth of “Gay Marriage,” The Reality of Gay Hate: Dispatches from New York and North Carolina
The recent ruling in favor of gays and lesbians in New York has had unintended consequences. And I don’t mean that the global wellbeing of...
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Fables for Our Time
I should have been grading papers yesterday. In fact, I missed my own assignments, watching coverage that I know nearly as well as the digits...
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Message from The Editors: In Commemoration of 9/11
We wish to express our sincere sympathies for all of the victims of September 11, 2001, now ten years ago. The tragedy of that day...
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Making the Left TRANSPARENT; An Anti-Racist Feminist Friendly Critique, Again
By Zillah Eisenstein These are strange times. Rupert Murdoch and his media empire are finally exposed for hacking and deception and there is some accounting...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Palin, Bachmann and the Political Feminism of the Right
As the 2012 Presidential election draws nearer, political observers and frontrunners alike are sure to begin reconstructing new and old partisan paradigms, with hopes of...
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Fitting In, In Beijing
My decision to go to Beijing, China for a summer literature institute provoked a variety of responses in those with whom I shared my plans. ...
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Bad “Bitches,” True Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson As Middle America shuffles out of its hangover from the Casey Anthony trial and into the debt ceiling morass, the war on...
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Revolt of the Little Grey Cells
I’ve had it, dear readers. The gloves are off. Conservatives, you’d best take cover cause I’m about to verbally whup some Republican ass. After more...
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Beyond The Sacrificial Good Woman: Black Feminism and Freethought
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1997 film The Apostle, Robert Duvall plays a white Southern Christian fundamentalist preacher and murderer on the lam and seeking...
