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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
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#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Inspiring Girls to Author Their Own Lives
By Vali Forrister When my niece, Haviland, was 12 years old, she shared her poetry with me for the first time. I told her it...
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Noumenal Woman
A fabulous poem for International Women’s Day 2012. This time a poem inspired by, and dedicated to, Maya Angelou and phenomenal women everywhere. ...
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TFW Interview: Allison Janae Hamilton on "The Black Ain't Project Installation #1: Embodiment"
George Clinton and other funky beats blazed in the background of the chashama gallery in Harlem while the dandy, the boho, the skater, the undefinable...
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Brazil's Petrobras names first female CEO
Maria das Gracas Foster has been named the head CEO of Latin America‘s largest firm, the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. Foster is a veteran of Petrobras and...
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Stealing Our Language
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune Food and love, who (and what) we vote for, what we deem good or bad, what we want and hate—all rise...
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EU Eyes Quotas for Women on Company Boards
The European Union is moving closer to introducing mandatory quotas for the number of women on company boards after businesses failed to make sufficient progress...
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Perp Walk for the Pope
Last September, Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), teamed with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to persuade the International Criminal Court...
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Faux-Apology Not Accepted: Fire Rush Limbaugh for His Hateful Misogyny
By Soraya Chemaly Rush Limbaugh’s limp quasi-apology to Sandra Fluke isn’t good enough. Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the US, should fire him...
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A 21st Century Shakespearean Tragedy
Some feminist satire for Friday! To vajazzle or not to vajazzle? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a plain vagina, Or to take arms against a sea of glittering vulva, And by opposing end them? To die: to bling no more; and by not bling to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that labia is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. ...
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Formal Apology for 150,000 Australian Women Forced to Give Up Newborn Babies
Following an 18-month inquiry, a parliamentary committee in Australia recommended that 150,000 women should receive a formal apology for actions committed against them during the...
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Portantino Pushes to Abolish Statue of Limitations on Rape
The statute of limitations would no longer apply to the crime of rape under legislation introduced by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge)....
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Dedicated to June Jordan (who still lives among us) My friends had expected retellings of my journey when I arrived back from Israel and the...
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Pakistan: 'Senate Unanimously Passes Domestic Violence Bill'
Pakistan’s Senate passed a bill that makes violence against women and children an offense carrying jail terms and fines, state media said. The Domestic Violence (Prevention...
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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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Face-Recognizing Billboard Shows Ad to Women Only
Plan UK, a non-profit organization that helps children in third-world countries, recently created a billboard to promote the group’s “Because I’m a Girl” campaign. The...
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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...