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Get There: Four Electric Ghosts
Get There: A Review Four Electric Ghosts: An Opera-Masquerade by Mendi and Keith Obadike Four Electric Ghosts, the newest Opera Masquerade from digital, performance and...
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From One White Gay Male to Another: Calling out the Implicit Racism in Dan Savage's ‘Liberal’ Politics & the ‘It gets better’ Campaign"
By Kirk Grisham The recent launch of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” campaign on MTV networks is failing to gain momentum among progressives because the campaign itself...
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Of Ambivalence: The Help, Obama, and the Ultimate Slave Re-Mix
And so here we are. In the same week, President Barack Obama became the first president in the history of Billy Graham’s “crusade,” and the...
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Militarism Through a Feminist Lens
By Stephanie Barnes A feminist perspective on military sexual trauma (MST) and the culture of rape in the U.S. armed forces is vital to the...
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‘Schoolin’ Life’: Teaching Beyoncé and Engaging Youth
Editors note: Just recently, several media outlets took to their cyber-phones, and began parsing what it meant for a cultural icon like Beyoncé to enter...
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Air Pollution Linked to Heart and Brain Risks
The impact of pollution on the heart and brain was seen over both the short and the long term. One nationwide study that followed nearly 20,000 women...
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Women Protest Anti-Abortion Bills in Virginia
Hundreds of women have locked arms and stood mute outside the Virginia State Capitol to protest a wave of anti-abortion legislation coursing through the 2012...
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Lessons from Piccolo Occupy: An Interview with Youth Organizer Ana Mercado
On Friday, February 17, more than a dozen parents, retired teachers, students, and community organizers organized and participated in a sit-in joined by more than...
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Media’s Gender Gap: Where My Girls At?
The representation of women in U.S. newsrooms is weak. The media industry is overwhelmingly male, and according to a report released last week by The Women’s Media...
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Last Known WWI Veteran Florence Green Dies at 110
Florence Green, who died at age 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women’s Royal Air...
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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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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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Super Spectacle: Race, Gender, and the Hawking of Products
The Super Bowl is a spectacle. Whether talking about the pregame festivities, the hype, the halftime show, or the game itself, it is the embodiment...
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"Truth to Power:"? No Truth or Empowerment in Jason Whitlock's Tweet
By the Collective (see below) The Feminist Wire | New Black Man We come together to express our collective disappointment over Jason Whitlock’s recent tweet about Jeremy Lin. ...
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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....