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What Does Solidarity Look Like? The 2014 Winter Olympics
By Paisley Currah Every two years, the Olympic Games brings the world together to celebrate sports, witness the sacrifices and determination of the competitors, and...
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“Action Expresses Priorities”: The Sochi Olympics and a Culture of Complicity
The upcoming Sochi Olympics are already shrouded in violence and inequality. It is the Olympics after all, so the political, social, and cultural entanglements between the...
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Say No to Homophobia: The 2014 Russian Olympics
By Zillah Eisenstein I have recently returned from St. Petersburg, where nationalist thugs assaulted gay pride demonstrators in June of this year after Putin passed...
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Op-Ed: What We Can Learn from the 2014 Winter Olympics?
By Wade Davis II Every four years I look forward to the Olympics. To be honest, I’m not ultra enamored with the opening day pageantry...
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Feminists We Love: Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is an award-winning, freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. She came to journalism through activism, understanding how powerful media can be for destroying...
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What the Fashion World’s Minstrel Shows Mean for Real African Designers
By Tanwi Nandini Islam Every Halloween season, a new crop of blackface horror stories appears in the news. Word of Saturday night’s annual Hallowood “Disco...
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The Racial and Sexual Politics of Peace
By Kelly Macías The week of October 7th was Nobel Prize week. And for economists, writers, scientists, and those who actively work for the resolution...
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A Review of Bushra Rehman’s “Corona”
“I am not that kind of an Indian,” says Razia Mirza, thus uttering all that can and needs to be said. In Bushra Rehman’s new...
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Love Is Not Enough: A Response to the Love as a Radical Act Forum
By Francesca Mastrangelo When we think of love, concepts of romance, nostalgia and other variations of tenderness often come to mind. Without a doubt, thoughts of...
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Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
By bell hooks Editors’ Note: Though some of the fanfare surrounding Sheryl Sandberg (of Facebook and Lean In fame) has died down, Sandberg is back...
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Editorial: Showing Up, Speaking Up
By The Feminist Wire Collective The Brooklyn-based Brecht Forum held a panel last week entitled, “What Do We Mean When We Say Privilege, Ally &...
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Op-Ed: “Looking Good” is Overrated: One Mom’s Response to Maria Kang
By Lily July Maria Kang, you look fabulous. I fully commend you for the work you put into a goal that was important to you,...
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Secular Woman of the Year
I’m honored to be recognized as the Secular Woman of the Year by Secular Woman, a feminist gender justice organization dedicated to “amplifying the voice, presence, and influence...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dismissed Feminist Revision or: How I Learned to Stop Trolling and Love Lady Gaga’s “Applause”
By Andrew Emitt Recently, I was banned from the Popjustice forum after posting my opinion of Lady Gaga’s newest single “Applause” in the “Lady Gaga ‘Artpop’”...
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Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling
By Shannen Dee Williams “Young lady, you just told my story. In 1952, I was denied admission to the Sisters of Saint Joseph ...
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The Link Between Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse
By Sally Stevens, Elizabeth Stahmer, and Cecile McKee There is a substantial body of research showing that when a person is cruel to animals, they are...
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A Letter to Marissa Alexander
Dear Marissa, It was a cold and dark Christmas Eve—sometime in the mid 80’s. My mom, my three sisters, and I lived in a small,...
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Violence Against Women Is Not A Cultural Tradition But A Crime
By Hope Wabuke On Tuesday, October 1, reports the India Times from Muzaffarnaga, India, two women in the Fugana village were gang raped, their homes burned to the ground...
