All posts tagged "religion"
-
I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part I)
Dr. Connie Ruzich and I first met soon after I walked onto the Robert Morris University campus in 1999. I thought I’d become a Finance...
-
Op-Ed: Where Femen Has Gone Wrong
By Mohadesa Najumi Femen is a feminist protest group founded in 2008, based in Ukraine. They received international recognition due to their direct and somewhat extreme methods of action....
-
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...
-
Disclosure
By David J. Malebranche His 26 year old body was calculating comfortable, sprawled over a disheveled collection of towels and sheets constituting a makeshift mattress,...
-
On Beyoncé, Benedict, and the Volition of Women
By Lisa O’Neill At a school mass at my all girls’ Catholic High School, the priest said a homily about chastity, and in particular, sex...
-
Sacrifice, Religion and Exclusion: On Parade in Little Saigon
By: Duane Bidwell In 1954, the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision made it clear that “separate” is not “equal” when it...
-
A Black Feminist Comment on The Sisterhood, The Black Church, Ratchetness and Geist
There’s been much talk about TLC’s new show The Sisterhood, a reality show about the lives and struggles of Ivy Couch, Domonique Scott, Christina Murray, DeLana Rutherford,...
-
Code Red Homophobia: Homelessness, HIV and Black Religiosity
For the past several months, Crenshaw Boulevard in predominantly black South Los Angeles has featured a series of striking billboards condemning homophobia and its role...
-
Dismantling the Anti-Life Alliance
By Maria Faini In Marietta, Ohio, on an October afternoon just prior to the recent Presidential election, Tea Party and Catholic protesters confronted Nuns on...
-
Shades of Darkness
In this globalizing world made possible largely through the social media, it is not difficult to follow what is happening in any part of the...
-
TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
-
Savita Halappanavar’s Bell Tolls for All Women
By Maria Faini and Kim Tran Thirty-one year old Savita Halappanavar died in late October from a miscarriage. News of her death haunts women around...
-
Secret Survivor: An Interview with Amita Swadhin
On the morning of July 16, 2012, I received a letter from Amita Swadhin, an activist and educator who is at the forefront of the...
-
Feminists…in Pakistan?
By Madihah Akhter As the upcoming U.S. presidential election dominates the headlines, the uncomfortably familiar rhetoric prioritizing religion’s role in American politics continues. One can...
-
Surgery Successful for Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year old who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan on October ninth, has undergone successful surgery to remove the bullet from...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...