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Worry and anxiety have worn me down to the bone
There was no rug on the floor and the old lady from downstairs would crawl up on her hands through the wood and show up...
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House to Review Bill Targeting Sex-Selective Abortions
On Wednesday, May 30, the United States House of Representatives will consider the “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act.” Known as “PRENDA,” the latest version of the bill...
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What do HPV completion rates say about women’s access to health care?
By Gwen Emmons After a difficult fight to approve the HPV vaccine (and defend it from opponents who claimed the vaccine causes promiscuity, “mental retardation,” and...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’
By Theresa Warburton and Joshua Cerretti We’re white feminists. We aren’t white just because our ancestors were mostly European. We are white because we regularly...
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In 23 Years, 2000 Wrongfully Convicted People Exonerated
More than 2,000 people have been exonerated of serious crimes since 1989 in the United States, according to a report by college researchers who have...
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Aging, as They Say, is Not for Sissies; But it is for Pussies
By Shari Collins “You’re 50!” the OB/GYN yelled. She was clearly exasperated. Oh, and she looked like she was maybe 23. I tried again to...
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Reflections on Manny-gayte
By Theresa Runstedtler I’ve been a fervent Pacquiao fan for many years but “Manny-gayte” has left me feeling uneasy about my loyalty to him in...
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Arizona Secretary Of State Threatens To Keep Obama Off Ballot
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett made moves to appease birthers in his state this week, petitioning the state of Hawaii to confirm the existence...
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Love in the Time of Amendment One: From Arizona to North Carolina
By Mason Casper-Milam, with a response from Heather Laine Talley LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. But this article is just on the...
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Judge Grants Class-Action Status to Stop-and-Frisk Suit
A federal judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was disturbed by the...
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The Nerve of Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham’s new HBO show “Girls” has touched a nerve. Or maybe a few. Surely this is in part because it is a nervy show....
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Excerpts from "Jumping the Jahru"
By Nina Sharma Jones That Dress That dress? It’s so heavy it could kill you. It will cost as much as an SUV, shouldn’t run...
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The Endless Baptism
The Endless Baptism For Palestine For the last few months, I’ve been working on a series of essays on Palestine. I’ve now written and erased...
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Reflections on the Palestinian Hunger Strike and Our Collective Liberation
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Hunger strikes have historically been used as a form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest. Liberation movements in the United States protesting...
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The Unbroken Cycle of Radical Black Feminist/Womanist Women In My Family
I often celebrate and lift up the names of two women–Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara –who are not related to me by blood but...
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A Different Remembrance
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative Black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can...
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From "A Magic of Bags"
It was not that Ilana Randolph did not like people. She did. What she didn’t like was the way they looked at her, and at...
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One Tough Mother
In 1977, I won my elementary school’s spelling bee, sending me to the regional match where, after several rounds, I was defeated by the word...