Online media has fostered new conversations about the intersections of race and feminism. My Google Reader feed agrees: while looking for this piece about white feminist privileges, I found many other posts on these topics. A few recent examples include the “Mommy, I want to be white” post on Feministing, “What Can the Black Man [...]
Archive | July, 2011
You Must Be Joking: Michele Bachmann is a Submissive
This piece was cross posted at Comediva When you think of adjectives to describe the President of the United States of America, I bet you five dollars “OBEDIENT” isn’t one of them, right? Right. Well, it’s not like we needed ANOTHER reason to prove that electing Michelle Bachmann as President of the United States of [...]
Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office- Part 1
This piece originally appeared at The National Council for Research on Women, The Real Deal Blog Last fall, I decided to write a thesis about women running for state legislative office. This choice—to research women in domestic politics rather than the concentrations of my International Studies major (Latin America and Political Economy)—meant taking on a [...]
Join us this Sunday for the return of #fem2 Tweetchats!
After much discussion, we are excited to announce that we are bringing back #fem2 Twitterchats on Sunday nights! Please join us this Sunday, July 17, at 9 p.m. EST as we honor NWLC’s and Planned Parenthood’s blog carnival, “Birth Control: We’ve Got You Covered,” taking place next week. We look forward to bringing back our Tweetchats [...]
When Men Are Absent From the Debate on Abortion
This past Father’s Day, President Obama delivered a weekly address in which he discussed the importance of having present, engaged fathers. While I think we’re all on the same page on that one, I wonder if our determination to give women control of their bodies is not inadvertently sending men the signal that they should [...]
Trafficking in Persons Report Enters Second Decade
Last week, the US State Department released the 2011 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. It’s a weighty document (literally) which sets out the progress, and lack thereof, that countries across the globe have made in combatting human trafficking. The 412 pages are sobering, and give you a sense of how pervasive these problems are across [...]
Why I support planned parenthood
You know that point in adulthood when you finally start to feel like an adult? You have your own place, friends, paying rent and learning about the upkeep costs of cars. Right when I was actually starting to feel grown up and thought of myself as an adult, I also found myself out of work. [...]
what about this weekend
Reading Materials Low Countries, a bilingual anthology by five different editors introduces women’s writing in, the low-lying delta region of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse Rivers from 1200 to 1875. This book is a great source for the study of women’s writing throughout the ages, as well as a great way to learn more about [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Yanar Mohammed—Iraqi Women’s Vigilant Champion
This piece was cross-posted from WMC The democratic spirit of the Arab Spring uprisings is alive and well in the determination of women protesters in Iraq, who are seeing their rights slip away under the current administration. Although the focus of many media reports has been on Egypt’s Tahrir Square, there is another Tahrir Square [...]
Women’s History in Need of Home
I spent several hours over the July 4th weekend at the Newseum. As with a weekend with visiting family, something touristy must be done. I’d never been before, and as the it is fairly new, with much interactive exhibits, I was excited to see everything! What I didn’t expect from anything done in this day [...]