Monthly Archives: March 2005
All female battalions in India tackle crimes against women
Tweet Back in my Women’s Studies undergrad, I remember reading about a group of women who formed an alliance in India to fight sex offenders on gender divided trains. I guess at the time there had been a lot of men breaking into the women’s cars and engaging in acts of sexual violence. Not only [...]
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Feminism and Racism Meet Again
TweetNot long ago, the Boston Globe featured an article, Step off, about “the objectification of black women — both visually and lyrically –” in contemporary rap music and videos. Old news, right? Not so fast. Apparently, “as this years-old aesthetic reaches a crescendo, a rumble of complaint is emerging from black men and women.” As [...]
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Get married or get fired
TweetNot really a choice I’d like to make. And certainly not one I should have to make. But that’s exactly the “choice” that was given to Debora Hobbs of North Carolina when her boss found out that she was living with her boyfriend. A former sheriff’s dispatcher, Hobbs was told by her employer “to get [...]
Ms. Editor in Chief resigns; magazine in trouble?
Tweet According to the New York Observer, tensions between Ms. Editor in Chief Elaine Lafferty and the magazine’s owner and publisher, the Feminist Majority Foundation, led to Lafferty’s recent resignation. Hmm… Lafferty announces her resignation in the latest issue of Ms., due to hit newsstands this week, saying “in the last two years, I believe [...]
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Advice columnist tells lesbian not to “ask for trouble” through PDAs