World
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Transnational Parental – Child Abduction: ’Tis the Season to be Wary
By Anique John-Carter and Alanna Kennedy Transnational abduction frequently conjures up images of children being trafficked from one part of the world to another for economic...
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Remedy for a Homophobic/Biphobic/Queerphobic/ Transphobic Naija
By Adaku Chinenye Utah On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 my country, Nigeria, passed an anti-gay bill through the Senate that would criminalize same-sex marriages and civil...
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, is Dead
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North’s official news...
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A Manifesto: The Silence of HIV, Killing Us Slowly
By Monique Howard When you read this, read it in a loud voice. I am screaming, ranting, trying to be heard over the din of the...
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From "Temp Job" to Career: A Quarter Century in the Fight Against HIV
By Al Cunningham My perspective on HIV prevention continues to be driven by the circumstances under which I became involved in this work 25 years...
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Positively Speaking: An Interview with Maria Mejia
By: C. Jones The Feminist Wire has decided to place the voices of persons living with HIV/AIDS at the center of its 2011 World AIDS...
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TFW Editorial Collective and Guest Responses to the 2011 WAD Challenge
What will need to happen to achieve the goal of eliminating new HIV infections, AIDS related deaths, and discrimination? What can we do, collectively, to...
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HEALTH DESK: World AIDS Day 2011: Getting To Zero
By Elizabeth McSpiritt, MD, MPH Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to bring awareness to those who have died from the disease and...
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2011 World AIDS Forum
If the AIDS epidemic has revealed the fragmentation of our society and more importantly the breakdown of African American communities, then, in the end, to...
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Writer/Activist Mona Eltahawy Arrested, Beaten, Sexually Assaulted By Police In Cairo
Mona Eltahawy — New York-based blogger, feminist activist, award-winning columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues — was arrested yesterday in Cairo. She’d...
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Locating Paule Marshall
The first time I encountered Paule (silent ‘e’) Marshall, I was an undergraduate—a first-generation college student—at the University of Chicago. I was majoring in sociology...
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‘Half of women’ tell of emotional violence
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro Family violence experts are calling for national debates surrounding issues of emotional violence against women in New Zealand after a study found...
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It Matters what Team You Play For: Heteronormativity in Sports
Oscar Wilde once described the game of Rugby as “a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.” While Wilde...
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Police Burn Tents To Clear Cairo's Tahrir Square
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro As Egyptian civilians gathered around Tahrir Square to urge the military government to transfer power to a civilian government (an agreement made...
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"Is a Woman President ‘Macho’ Enough for Mexico?"
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro In less than nine months, Mexico will have the chance to vote for their first female president. Josefina Vazquez-Mota is competing for...
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Mixed Signals Spark Fear, Hope For Saudi Women
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia originally told Saudi women he intended to give them more rights in 2015 (to which Saudi feminists...
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US cuts off Unesco funding after Palestinian vote
On Monday, the US halted funding for UNESCO after the body voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians. While symbolic, the move clearly angered...