All posts tagged "Culture"
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Court: Namibia HIV Sterilization Violated Rights
Three women of Namibia who have been diagnosed as HIV positive were coercively sterilized in violation of their basic rights, the High Court in Windhoek found...
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The Hijab on the Pitch
By Laurent Dubois On Friday, July 6, the French Football Federation announced that it would ban the wearing of hijab during all organized competitions held...
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Striving for Muslim Women's Human Rights
By Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons I am a practicing Muslim and an Islamic scholar who received my Ph.D. with a focus on Islamic law and women...
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Seeing Muslim Women with Western Eyes
By Josh Cerretti I am neither a Muslim nor a woman; however, I am attempting to enact feminism and social justice in the age of...
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Muslim Feminisms Forum: An Introduction
By Dana Olwan and Sophia Azeb Nearly 1.8 billion people around the world annually celebrate Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic (Hijri)...
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Sisters in Cinema: Where are the Black Women Film Directors?
By Evette Dionne Last week, the Twitterverse was gifted a priceless nugget when film director Ava DuVernay and her guild, AFFRM, released the trailer for...
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Patrisse Cullors' "Stained": A Review
By Kima Jones Patrisse Cullors, a multi-faceted performance artist, shared her installation piece, “Stained,” Saturday night at Highways Performance Space and Gallery in Santa Monica,...
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"Shooting For My Own Hand”: A Review of Brave
By Willa Kirsch-Stancliff and Mason Casper-Milam Merida is the main character in the new Disney Pixar movie Brave. She is a strong-willed female lead and...
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Spinning on Blackness: Wading through the Contradictions of Frank’s Ocean
By Nicholas Brady Those African persons in “Middle Passage” were literally suspended in the “oceanic”… these captive persons, without names that their captors would recognize,...
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“Coming Out” To Cash?: Frank Ocean and Social Progression
By David J. Malebranche Last week, social media was set ablaze when Frank Ocean publicly released a letter describing a love experience he had during...
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Women Writers Find Inspiration, Mandate to Create, at VORTEXT Retreat
By Kelsye Nelson The first ever VORTEXT event, Hedgebrook’s weekend retreat for women writers, began with Bastard out of Carolina author Dorothy Allison growling from...
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TFW Profile: Kym Backer, Senior Editor of Upscale Magazine
By Darnell L. Moore and Tamura A.Lomax What is left for one to do when she has done everything from interviewing heads of state, writing...
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Lourdes Portillo Retrospective at MoMA
A retrospective of the films/videos of Lourdes Portillo opens tomorrow, June 22nd, at the MoMA in New York. “Lourdes Portillo: La Cineasta Inquisitiva” celebrates the...
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Adidas Cancels Release of Controversial Shackle Sneaker
“Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?” This was the caption beneath the picture of Adidas’ JS Roundhouse Mid...
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Ugandan Women Address Court Over Maternal Mortality
More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda, a heartbreaking statistic that has energized activists to go to the Supreme Court in...
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Three Poems
By Anisha Dutt You & Me Body, stamped, ornate and pure. My body, your body. Sealed. Beliefs erect dry rivers. Words spark fire, smoldering...
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In 23 Years, 2000 Wrongfully Convicted People Exonerated
More than 2,000 people have been exonerated of serious crimes since 1989 in the United States, according to a report by college researchers who have...
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Love in the Time of Amendment One: From Arizona to North Carolina
By Mason Casper-Milam, with a response from Heather Laine Talley LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. But this article is just on the...