Rounding up predators

Originally published by our friends at Indian Country Today, In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human rights crisis in Canada where more than 600 Native women...

March 17th, 2011 | Featured, Women, World | Read More

Claiming our power in the fight against AIDS

I sat before the room dumbfounded. Surrounding me were brilliant, beautiful, driven, and successful young women. Each high achievers in their own right. Each on the verge of certain success. Yet, these young women who had originally come to my office to discuss transversing that critical, but...

March 10th, 2011 | African Americans, Featured, Women | Read More

Women’s Memorial March honors victims, families

Originally published by our friends at Indian Country Today, In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human rights crisis in Canada where more than 600 Native women...

March 9th, 2011 | Featured, Politics, Women, World | Read More

Enuf talk about men, focus on the women: A review of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls”

Tyler Perry’s recent film For Colored Girls, based on the “choreo-poem” written by Ntozake Shange, explores the poetic, theatrical and existential aspects of living in the world as a woman of colour. Shange’s play, whose full title is “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the...

January 6th, 2011 | Culture, Featured, Reviews, Women | Read More

Alessandra Soler-Meetze and Immigration in Arizona

Pictured in her office, Alessandra Soler-Meetze, Director of ACLU of Arizona, is proud of the work her organization has done in the community, and for the fact she is the first Latina to head the ACLU The director of the ACLU of Arizona shares her personal satisfactions and the difficult work of advocating...

December 3rd, 2010 | Immigration, Latinos, Politics, Women | Read More

Does focusing on individual change distract from fighting structural racism?

I’m horribly late to the whole “No Wedding No Womb” thing, but I figured it’s about time to give it a few words. If you’ve missed it, “No Wedding No Womb” (#NWNW on Twitter) is essentially a “don’t have kids out of wedlock” movement started...

October 27th, 2010 | African Americans, Racial Equity, Talk About Race, Women | Read More

Women, the face of poverty: UN needs to redevelop anti-poverty strategy

By Elizabeth Parisian, Ten years have passed since the UN member nations approved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which represent an ambitious commitment to alleviate poverty and increase wellbeing amongst the least well-off in all corners of the globe. The eight goals each address an aspect...

September 30th, 2010 | Featured, Women, World | Read More

Shirley Sherrod for president

Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging...

July 26th, 2010 | Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US, Women | Read More