Politics
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Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?
Republicans are on the warpath, and their enemy is women. Okay, maybe not all women. Just poor women. And those who are disabled and/or chronically...
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The Pence Amendment: Waging War on the Poor
By Ulli K. Ryder Is there a “war on women?” Does the recent amendment to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood signal a concerted attack on...
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Foreign Policies
According to operatic lore, the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the opening of the Cairo Opera were supposed to have occurred conjointly with the...
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Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper In the words of American poet Adrienne Rich, “All wars are useless to the dead.” Yet, while...
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Re-Writing Political Scripts–Democracy and Transformation in Egypt
It is certainly true that politics is theater: Familiar scripts are activated and rehearsed given the assumed audience. And the political actors, despite any espoused...
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An Open Letter to Judge Cosgrove
The following letter was written in response to the prosecution, conviction and sentencing of Ms. Kelly Williams-Bolar on two counts of felony (tampering with records)...
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Making Sense of Violence in the Aftermath of Tucson
By Yolande M. S. Tomlinson The consensus in the mainstream media, both on the left and right, is that Jared Lee Loughner’s decision to shoot...
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A Method to His Madness? Gender-Based Violence in the Tucson Shootings
By Janell Hobson By now, we have heard various theories about why 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner may have shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head and...
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MLK was no Feminist but…
TFW celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. today—not because he was a self-proclaimed feminist, but because his politics were. King’s radical notion of the “beloved community,”...
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An Opening Notation on the Limits of Paternalism
By Nahum D. Chandler It has been said that we must be prepared in the progress of all reformatory movements for periods of exhilaration and depression,...
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Truth or Consequences
A self-described “Blue-Dog” Democrat, Arizona’s “Gabby” Giffords likely did not know her assailant, nor, ironically, that in 2007, she had written him, as one of...
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Tucson Tragedy: Naming the Unspeakable
My daughters-Mason, 9 and Delaney, 6-are in Tucson this weekend with my parents, who live there. My mother took the girls to the Tucson Symphony...
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TFW's Statement on the Attack of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her Staff, and Constituents
TFW is deeply saddened by the vicious attack against Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, and constituents in Arizona today. Our sympathies are with all who have been...
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ADVENTURES IN RACE: NOTES ON MARK TWAIN’S HUCKLEBERRY FINN
The recent furor surrounding a new edition of Mark Twain’s nineteen-century classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has far-reaching implications beyond the crude oppositions of censorship...
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Tribute to Bernie Sanders
On Friday, 10 December, one of the most remarkable instances of civic responsibility was televised on C-Span. Bernie Sanders, Junior Senator from the state of...
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Hell No to the New Jim Crow!
By Ronald B. Neal For more than two decades rappers have been the unofficial spokespersons for America’s failed War on Drugs. From N.W.A. to The...
