Archive for the ‘Women’ Category

Policing gender and sex through sport

Policing gender and sex through sport
In January, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) convened a so-called gender symposium in which medical ‘experts’ concluded that intersex athletes should be treated as having a medical disorder, and that eligibility of such athletes be decided on a case-by-case basis. They also suggested that...
March 9th, 2010 | Featured, Sports, Women | Read More

Sometimes the rainbow is not enuf

Sometimes the rainbow is not enuf
African-American women graduate students, depression, and suicide She went to a shooting range a few miles away from Columbus, Ohio. She asked to take the introductory shooter’s course. She watched a required instructional video, rented a 9mm pistol, and practiced shooting with an instructor. After...
January 29th, 2010 | Women | Read More

The cultural lenses used to dissect female circumcisions

The cultural lenses used to dissect female circumcisions
Female genital mutilation/cutting, a term coined by the UN, is a rites of passage ritual that takes place primarily in Africa and to a lesser extent India, Malaysia, the Arabian Peninsula and Indonesia. The World Health Organization estimates that over 130 million girls and women have undergone genital...
January 18th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

When will the clock strike for the next Women’s Movement?

When will the clock strike for the next Women’s Movement?
It’s time for a revolution. Women have been taking some hard hits that have gone unanswered for far too long. From the recent women’s health care recommendations to the reified overly narrow standards of beauty, the state of women in America is rapidly devolving. In an era where “change” has...
January 14th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

A new year, a new decade, a new resolve

A new year, a new decade, a new resolve
January marks the welcome of a new year and with it comes a time to make new resolutions, resolving to change and improve. This year in particular marks a new decade.  A friend of mine made me aware of this point as she fiercely resolved that the woes of family dramas would not ruin her 2010, nor her...
January 14th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

Are women human?

Are women human?
The universality of human rights continues to be contested by cultural relativists. Cultural relativists accept the notion that culture and cultural “tradition” trumps international human rights law. However, not only are cultural relativists accepting this notion, but by accepting it, they are also...
January 13th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

The strong educated black woman in the 21st century

The strong educated black woman in the 21st century
—who is she and where is she going? Over the past few weeks there has been an obsessive-like focus on the fact that many professional (accomplished) black women remain unmarried and childless well into their 40s. ABC, 20/20, The New York Times, and MSNBC have all spotlighted this topic. There can...
January 13th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

All the single ladies: Thoughts on the black marriage dilemma

All the single ladies: Thoughts on the black marriage dilemma
The secret is officially out: the marriage prospects of single, professional African American women are dismal. For the proliferating numbers of single Black women, this is surely no secret, but since ABC’s Nightline aired the latest siren call at the end of last year about the increasing numbers of...
January 12th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

Embracing feminisim twenty years later

Embracing feminisim twenty years later
I went to graduate school to become a psychologist in the 1980s. In that era, the real examinations of my graduate education came not from mid-terms, finals and comprehensive exams, but from whether or not I could articulate and demonstrate my black racial identity to the black community and my degree...
January 12th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

Theresa Two Bulls: A lady of distinction

Theresa Two Bulls: A lady of distinction
There are those who choose to take jobs that almost immediately make them unpopular, at least unpopular to those factions that are always on the opposing side. Theresa “Huck” Two Bulls chose to run for the presidency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe knowing full well that it would probably be the most difficult...
January 11th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

This bridge called my back: A retro look at women of color and power

This bridge called my back: A retro look at women of color and power
When it was published in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color was a vermilion ink bloom on the crisp white wedding dress of the U.S. feminist movement. It was meant to be shocking. This anthology of prose and poetry by Black, Latina, Asian, Native American women was the...
January 11th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Technology’s sister insider

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Technology’s sister insider
In the Nov./Dec. issue of Utne Magazine, Alexis Pauline Gumbs was recognized as a “media activist” in an article entitled “50 People Who Are Changing Your World.”  I initially discovered her work in a November 2009 op-ed piece, “The Revolution Will Be Blogged” for Wiretap Magazine, a re-envisioning...
January 11th, 2010 | Featured, Women | Read More

I do not consent: Musings on sexual terrorism

I do not consent: Musings on sexual terrorism
I am the history of rape I am the history of the rejection of who I am I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of myself I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul and whether it’s about walking out at night or...
January 11th, 2010 | Women | Read More

No woman left behind

No woman left behind
CEDAW and the Stupak-Pitts Amendment The United States is one of seven countries that have yet to ratify The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Alongside the United States are Iran, Nauru, Palau, Tonga, Somalia and Sudan.[i] In summary,...
December 15th, 2009 | Featured, Health, Women | Read More
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