All posts tagged "Politics"
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Sophia Azeb Responds to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Examine the image above carefully. What do you see? No, it’s not a parody from The Onion. It’s actually the cover of this week’s edition...
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Are We Really That Different from Cicely Bolden?
By Kat Griffith Cicely Bolden was a young woman who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend because of her HIV status. After school, her...
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She Didn’t Deserve To Die
By Precious Jackson I’m saddened to hear about Cicely Bolden’s murder at the hand of her intimate partner when this did not need to happen....
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Massa Mitt Does South of the Border
Over the past few months, the GOP has proudly reveled in Ronald Reagan’s old chestnut that “facts are stupid things.” First, Anne Romney told us...
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We Have Always Known: Embodying Community Accountability
A review of Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4,...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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What Is The Ethnic Council? Eliding Racism at the DNC
Wednesday morning, a line formed through the Charlotte Convention Center as delegates, community members, and media waited to enter the African American Caucus to hear...
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Michelle Obama's Speech and Its Subtle Appeal to Republican Values?
Michelle Obama’s speech during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention gathering has provoked talk and tears, and rightly so—she delivered. Political insiders, media outlets, and convention...
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A User-Friendly DNC?
The Democratic National Convention is promoting the 2012 Charlotte convention as the “the most open and accessible convention in history.” The DNC begins with free...
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There Is No Water in Our Survival Kit
By Fakhra Hassan The date is 28th April, 2012. The city is Lahore. The venue is the Lahore Press Club. On behalf of the Institute...
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You Betta Werk!: Professors Talk Style Politics
By Tanisha C. Ford In recent years, appropriate attire for professors has been a hotly debated topic. Scholars from various disciplines have offered instruction, fashion...
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Go (or don't go?) Topless Day
By Marie-Laure Rives Today is Go Topless Day! GoTopless.org is a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007, claiming that women have the same constitutional right as men...
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Iranian Government Bans Women from Universities
A new policy in Iran, which was announced for the first time on August 6, will allow universities to ban women from 77 BA and...
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Dear Congressman Akin
Dear Congressman Akin, So I woke up with my boyfriend on top of me. He had just “finished.” I was out of it, high as...
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New Program Allows Some Young Undocumented Immigrants to Legally Stay in US
Hundreds of thousands of people who entered the United States as children but without documentation can apply — beginning Wednesday — to remain in and...
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On Being Terrorized and “Terrorist”
By Nishant Upadhyay I was born June 5, 1984 in Prince Edward Island (PEI). In Amritsar that day, Indira Gandhi ordered Indian troops to attack...
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Reframing the Discussion: Concluding Thoughts on the Forum on Muslim Feminisms.
By Dana Olwan and Sophia Azeb For too long, Muslim feminists have endured the question of whether Islam and feminism can coexist. This seemingly innocent...