All posts tagged "Politics"
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A World of Contradictions
Since security forces and militia loyal to Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi attacked groups of peaceful protestors on February 17th, widespread bloodshed, disappearances, fear and anger...
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What to Do When God Hates You: A Lordeian Intervention in the Face of the Westboro Case
Last week the United States Supreme Court voted eight to one in favor of a definition of free speech that includes hate speech on what...
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Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?
Republicans are on the warpath, and their enemy is women. Okay, maybe not all women. Just poor women. And those who are disabled and/or chronically...
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The Pence Amendment: Waging War on the Poor
By Ulli K. Ryder Is there a “war on women?” Does the recent amendment to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood signal a concerted attack on...
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Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper In the words of American poet Adrienne Rich, “All wars are useless to the dead.” Yet, while...
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Re-Writing Political Scripts–Democracy and Transformation in Egypt
It is certainly true that politics is theater: Familiar scripts are activated and rehearsed given the assumed audience. And the political actors, despite any espoused...
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An Open Letter to Judge Cosgrove
The following letter was written in response to the prosecution, conviction and sentencing of Ms. Kelly Williams-Bolar on two counts of felony (tampering with records)...
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Making Sense of Violence in the Aftermath of Tucson
By Yolande M. S. Tomlinson The consensus in the mainstream media, both on the left and right, is that Jared Lee Loughner’s decision to shoot...
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A Method to His Madness? Gender-Based Violence in the Tucson Shootings
By Janell Hobson By now, we have heard various theories about why 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner may have shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head and...
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MLK was no Feminist but…
TFW celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. today—not because he was a self-proclaimed feminist, but because his politics were. King’s radical notion of the “beloved community,”...