Archive for 'human rights'
Feminism Lives: Isabel Allende and Global Women's Rights
In need of a little new year’s inspiration? Broadsheet “recommends novelist Isabel Allende’s poignant and hilarious talk on passion, writing, beauty and feminism given in Monterey, Calif., at the TED conference last year in March. (It was just posted on the TED site in January 2008.)””It’s moving,” writes Broadsheet’s Katharine Mieszkowski, “to watch Allende exhort [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, TED conference, Uncategorized, Wangaari Mathai, abu ghraib, abuse, balance, beauty, celebrity, domestic violence, fame, female empowerment, feminine energy, feminism, feminist, flag, gender, global, hope, human rights, isabel allende, loren, olympics, passion, patriarchy, power, sofia, sophia loren, taxes, violence, writing.
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Giving Thanks for Genocide: The Argument Against Thanksgiving
I like cranberry sauce as much as the next feminist, but I wonder if the lack of education about the genocide of native peoples in our continent argues against thanksgiving. I am (part) Native American, according to a genetic test conducted earlier this semester, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that if we [...]
Posted: November 23rd, 2007 under Alternet, Robert Jensen, card, discover, discovery, discovery card, genocide, human rights, native americans, native peoples, pilgrims, thanksgiving, turkey.
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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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Gender Normativity, Post-Mrs.Doubtfire Doubts, & A Drive-By Fruiting
I went to a dinner party a while ago, and it was really nice. I was camoflaged in adult clothes, and standing around with adults, chatting, and this child ran through. The child hesitated on the edge of our circle of tall obstacles, and then darted into the middle and out the other side. The [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under abuse, adults, bitch, bowl cut, bowlcut, boy, child, crossdressing, dinner, dolce and gabbana, drive by, drummond, fair, fairness, feminism, feminist, fruiting, gender, girl, heart, henry, hippies, hit, human rights, humanism, humanist, idiot, idiots, inherit the wind, jezebel, justice, koreanish, male victim, mrs doubtfire, norm, objectification, objectification of men, partner abuse, partner violence, party, psychiatry, punch, rape, scopes trial, slap, violence, violent.
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You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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DIY: How (And Why) To Make Your Own T-Shirt Dress
Right, so I’ve been going on about agency for months, and I’ve never talked about the important of being active or being an activist in your own life. I took this amazing class called Fashion Matters, which actually got specifically made fun of by name by some of my friends in one of our on-campus [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2007 under Japan, Misogyny, Women and Gender Studies, agency, american apparel, butch, contemporary, costume, diy, do it yourself, dress, dresses, east, fashion, fit, free, historical construction, homemade, human rights, joke, material, objectification, oppression, postmodern, queer, reaction, social construction, straight, street fashion, stretchy, sweatshops, t shirt, union busting, west.
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Every (Male) Sperm Is Sacred.
. . .That’s pretty close to the text of a new bill introduced to the Ohio legislature by Republican John Adams, who suggests that women who are trying to get an abortion should have to get written permission from their fetus’ fathers in order to abort. Yep, that’s right. The Record Courier reports that the [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under Department of Justice, Feministing, Jessica Valenti, John Adams, NARAL, Ohio, abort, abortion, abortion ban, anti-choice, bill, birth, dominance, father, fetus, financial responsibility, freedom, human rights, incest, intelligence, justice, law, legislature, man, parents, partial birth abortion, paternal permission, paternity, paternity test, permission, police, police report, politics, privacy, pro-choice, rape, rapist, record courier, reproductive rights, republican, sex, sperm, sperm bank, unborn children, women's rights.
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