Small ask: If you were thinking of using women’s naked bodies as political talking points, don’t. Just this week the used menstrual pad dirty bird-cage lining newspaper the New York Post released several decades-old nude photos of potential FLOTUS Melania Trump. I must protest that these are even news-worthy as it’s long been known she […]
The ever-changing political climate of American has shaped the journey of women’s reproductive rights through our legal system. From the moderate Republicanism of the 70s when Roe v. Wade was decided, to the neo-conservatism of the 80s and 90s, the court’s attitude towards women’s rights has shifted along side. Now, at a time of “us versus them” identity politics, […]
It’s in vogue for many of Donald Trump’s “haters” to compare the man to a modern-day Hitler. Whether it’s because of his inflammatory rhetoric—that he supports a database of refugees to monitor them, thinks Mexicans as rapists who will pay for a border wall to keep themselves out, tweeted a meme that black people kill each other a lot, and utters a plethora of shameful comments to and about […]
The Ethicist column in the December 6th issue of New York Times Magazine featured a female contributor with some serious qualms about her fiancee’s father’s criminal past—enough to consider breaking off the marriage completely. Her list of grievances with marrying the fellow included: “…I would have to take the name of…someone I find morally reprehensible.” This admission […]
This is old news by now, but if you want to waste some time reading yet another article that blames drunk women for causing their own rape, read College Women: Stop Getting Drunk by Emily Yoffe. I don’t even care to comment on the victim-blaming part (so done). I do want to comment on this […]
In developing countries with t-shirt economies, strikes, suicides, deaths, and tragedies like the Rana Plaza collapse are par for the course in the race to the bottom. The losers: laborers, mostly women, many children, who make pennies on the dollar, sewing for hours on end in un-airconditioned firetraps. The winners: first-world consumers who get trendy […]
You may have heard around the blogosphere that a few weeks ago, the Georgia Assembly introduced and debated a bill that would make it “illegal to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the baby is otherwise not expected to live to term,” or so […]
Even though there is an overall message—the dissatisfaction about wealth disparity and how money is used in politics and society—the of cohesion and leadership will ultimately render the protest unfruitful. How, without definite goals and/or a leader, can the protest be anything more than a personification of both our collective failures and grievances as a nation?
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