All posts tagged "World"
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Reckoning: Race and Sexual Assault in Colombia
By Stacia Penn I am a young black American living in Colombia. My life in Medellin has been a multi-faceted privilege, affording me access to...
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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Mr. Prime Minister: I read today that you were “disturbed” about the rape of another child in Delhi, a five-year-old girl. My question to you...
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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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Find the Good in Women Who Aren't Margaret Thatcher
By Ren Jender “She must have been miserable,” one of my Facebook “friends” wrote as a kind of eulogy for Margaret Thatcher. I had to...
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Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Women (Revisited)
By Mazuba Haanyama My central aim involves the politics of bodily performance, in negotiation with shifting realities of a post-Apartheid context, where constructions of gender,...
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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....
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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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Darnell L. Moore helps launch Ring the Bell: One million men. One million promises.
Ring the Bell: One million men. One million promises is a movement that encourages men across the globe to make concrete, actionable promises to combat violence against women. Launch...
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Special Report: The Commission on the Status of Women Comes to an End
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama The 57th session of the CSW has come to an end. On the 15th of March, the UN member states signed the...
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The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
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Feminist in My Kitchen
By Nilofar Ansher The Romantic Tedium of Cooking Our notions of love and nurture are bound with the flavor, texture and warmth of food cooked...
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Op-Ed: Jack Johnson and the Racial Politics of a Presidential Pardon
On March 5, U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Peter King (R-NY) put forth a resolution...
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Special Report: The Feminist Wire goes to the Commission on the Status of Women, or the CSW Through My Virgin Eyes
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama Week one is rapidly drawing to an end and I feel like I have been hit by a train; a...
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Op-Ed: Solo Women Travelers: “Go Out Without Your Body”
By Alice Driver “The only thing left to say is, ‘If you don’t want anything to happen to you, go out without your body,’” instructed...
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Op-Ed: Nicholas Kristof and the Politics of Writing About Women’s Oppression in Darker Nations
By Sunil Bhatia On February 13, 2013, Nicholas Kristof gave a talk at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. His talk, titled Striving for Global Justice, was...
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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...
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Op-Ed: The Dangerous Limits of Race at the Academy Awards
By Roya Rastegar We are far from a “post-racial” society. The films nominated for Best Adapted or Original Screenplays reveal an intensifying compulsion to engage...
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Woman's Work
Depending on the promise, girls pack differently. Girls from the north, known for their beautiful pale skin created out of long winters will pack their...