All posts tagged "Marriage"
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Two Poems by Emelia Reuterfors
Brided 1) I wonder where my bride is . pigeonwinging and wired to the banister a split-end....
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Personal is Political: Memories of My Grandmother
I hope I can live through life's ups and downs like she did, by deeply adoring the happy moments and enduring the bitter ones with...
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Personal is Political: What’s in a Name?
"After months of contemplation, it struck me. Why not change this respected German name into its English equivalent? If Ellis Island did this to immigrants...
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Romantic Love – a Feminist Conundrum?
By Renata Grossi Romantic love has been read as a radical force capable of breaking down entrenched social barriers. Philosophers and sociologists have argued that...
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Feminists We Love: Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting (Video)
Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (AADS and French). She teaches comparative diasporic literary and cultural movements, 18th & 19th century...
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Marriage Equality and Beyond: A View from India
A few days before my Facebook News Feed was flooded with red equal signs, I went to a short march in Bangalore. The Gender and...
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Feminism & Me: Name Change, for Love Actually
By Nilofar Ansher Does choosing to take on your husband’s name play into the patriarchal injunctions against women’s selfhood? What follows are questions re: notions of...
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Defense of Marriage: Racism, Family Values and the 99%
As the lead attorney for Proposition 8 trotted out the standard Christian fascist “marriage is only for procreation” party line before the Supreme Court yesterday,...
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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The impact of Living out Loud as a Gay Jamaican
By Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn It has been a week since the first story broke about my marriage to my beautiful wife, Emma Benn, at Silver...
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An Official Dad
I grew up a child of divorced parents. My father was gone most of the time, and my mom did everything for me. She was...
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Why I Got Straight Married: On Love, Heterosexism, and Fear in Post-9/11 America
By Aarati Kasturirangan Fear One week after 9/11, still reeling from the trauma of the attacks, I walked to my bus stop and glanced furtively...
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Anti-Gay Marriage Group's Black Strategy Has Long History
By Kenyon Farrow Last week LGBT rights advocates went into a state of shock when Human Rights Campaign (HRC) revealed documents by its arch-nemesis, the...
