All posts tagged "U.S."
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Creating a Biological Underclass: A Reality of Poverty for HIV+ Women
By Sonia Rastogi Hype of the HIV epidemic in the U.S. has died down in the media and in the minds of many Americans. What...
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Gender Taxes: American Women Are $1.5 Million Poorer By Age 65
By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Every single working day of the year, American women pay a 22.6 percent gender tax on their income. By...
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Race, Mad Men, and Nostalgia
By Claire Oberon Garcia Like three million other Americans, I eagerly looked forward to the return of Mad Men. I love the show. But as...
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On "Liberated Sex" and Other Myths
By Breanne Fahs At my book reading in New York last month, renowned sex therapist and activist Leonore Tiefer told me (in her brilliantly frank...
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I'm Not Your Spicy Latina
By Shantyana C. Lledin I am a Hispanic woman. What I am not is someone who wants to be fetishized for this. I am not...
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Planned Parenthood Worried It's The Target Of New Undercover Sting
A string of suspicious incidents at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country has given the organization reason to believe that anti-abortion activists are targeting it...
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Artist Creates Zimmerman Portrait with Skittles
A Denver artist has created a portrait of Florida shooting suspect George Zimmerman using more than 12,000 Skittles — the candy that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin...
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The Feminist Wire Responds
On April 13th, TFW published the article “To Be Anti-Racist Is To Be Feminist: The Hoodie and the Hijab Are Not Equals.” The piece provoked...
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Women Running: Kelly Westlund
Name: Kelly Westlund Candidate for: Ashland (Wisconsin) City Council Interviewed by: Wanda Kolomyjec Why are you running for office? I believe that the...
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What Year IS this Anyway?: Musings of an Ex-Catholic as Politicians and Priests Fight over Women’s Reproductive Rights
By Mary Jean Ronan Herzog I am a Mary. I was named after the Blessed Virgin. Born into a Catholic family, as the first daughter...
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Komen Grants Flowing to Planned Parenthood
Grants from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure are flowing to Planned Parenthood, as the women’s health organizations seek to rebuild their relationship...
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Female War Veterans More Likely to Become Homeless
Once primarily male veteran problems, homelessness and economic struggles are escalating among female veterans, whose numbers have grown during the past decade of U.S. wars...
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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...
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The War on Women: A Progressive Man’s View
By Vincent Martin A (self-admitted) conservative male acquaintance recently asked me what the War on Women means. Herein I will attempt to answer him. First, let...
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Celebrating Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 and died on July 17, 1959. She squeezed a lot of living–and a whole lot of music–into...
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On Race, Trauma, and "Strange Fruit"
Recently, I taught Billie Holiday’s signature song, “Strange Fruit,” in my Critical Trauma Studies course in a harrowing session on lynching. My graduate students had...
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Minorities, Women Making Gains in California Courts
Minorities account for 57 percent, or 22.3 million, of California’s 37 million people, according to the census. Two-thirds of the minority residents are Hispanic. The vast...
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Xavier University Kicks Employees Off Contraception Coverage
The fallout from the Catholic Bishops’ crusade against contraception continues as Xavier University announced it was discontinuing birth-control insurance coverage for its employees effective July...