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Why I Might Watch Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
While Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, a televisual extension of Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, runs against...
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Criminal Fashions: The Hermeneutics of Hip-Hop Aesthetics
The hip hop aesthetic has recently made its way to the cover of Vogue Italia, one of the most influential magazines of the fashion world....
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H&M Chooses Cyborgs over Humans
The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and “completely virtual,” the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display...
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The Case For Peeking Inside The Slaughterhouse
A new report from the National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of Sciences) argues that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety...
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Women Are Aggressors in Household Violence Too
It’s not just boys and men who are aggressive, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett in “The Truth About Girls and Boys.” But in...
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Some Combat Dogs Suffer Post-Traumatic Stress, Too
The United States military has long used canines to assist in times of war. Dogs help troops sniff out bombs, clear buildings and locate enemy...
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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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Video: 16 year old Jane Schmidt and another unnamed student asks Michele Bachmann about LGBT rights and bullying
“All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights,” Bachmann told Jane Schmidt, 16, who identified herself as a...
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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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HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values
Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post that new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health...
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Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondent, feminist satirist and media critic Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of...
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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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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Octavia McBride-Ahebee
The Japanese Teahouse To Greg Witcher I can now see the skirt hems of hants stitched by the hands of the living they keep with...
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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: Featured Poet: Cheryl Clarke
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? vi. In this hostile corridor A quickening nostalgia suffuses me, this late evening fin...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Tim’m T. West
“medicine” how i do it this not-always-easy how i keep strong on weak(er) days is i think of the joy beckoning for me to...
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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...