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Travel Diaries from the Nobel Women’s Initiative in Israel and Palestine: Part Two

We are really excited to have Jaclyn Friedman share with us her travel diaries from her current travels to Israel and Palestine with the Nobel Women’s Initiative. This is part two, you can check out part one and an introduction to the initiative here.

Friday, Oct. 1

Hebron. Sorrow.

We toured Hebron this morning. It’s one of the primary sites of conflict between Palestinians and settlers, the latter of whom have built an outpost right in the middle of the Old City, destroying 1,000 year old homes, overtaking farms and running many people out of their houses. Our first stop was to a home which ...

We are really excited to have Jaclyn Friedman share with us her travel diaries from her current travels to Israel and Palestine with the Nobel Women’s Initiative. This is part two, you can check ...

By Rose • 13 years ago

New sex study has good news for youth and people of color but gender gap in sexual satisfaction persists

Our friends over at Indiana University are living up to Alfred Kinsey‘s legacy. Today marks the release of the largest, nationally representative sexual health survey in almost 20 years. It is also the first study to survey youth as young as 14-years-old and older people aged 96. This is a radical moment in sexual health history where research is getting a more accurate picture of the life span of our sexual experiences. And the study has some encouraging findings.

Conducted by the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, the report holds great news for youth and people of color, communities that have been framed as sexually irresponsible for far too ...

By goddessjaz • 13 years ago

For What’s It Worth: Misnomer(S) Break Down Hip-Hop Stereotypes

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Earlier this week, I went to check out Bondfire, a monthly New York underground hip-hop showcase created and hosted by always entertaining TastyKeish and Bronx Uber Villian. Though the crowd was overwhelmingly male, there were some fierce women in the building, a couple of ladies were doing live painting, and some were blessing the audience. Best of all, two sisters known as Misnomer(S) rocked the mic unofficially releasing their first album, “American I(s).”

Misnomer(S) consists of two Korean-American sisters from Buffalo, NY, known on stage as Knewdles and Sos (yes, pronounced noodles and sauce). What sets them apart is not the “novelty” of being Asian female hip-hop artists but ...

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Earlier this week, I went to check out Bondfire, a monthly New York underground hip-hop showcase created and hosted by always entertaining TastyKeish and Bronx Uber Villian. Though the crowd ...

By Sharkfu • 13 years ago

Notes from a bitch…pondering the ramifications…

Shall we?

My beloved maternal Grandmother did not trust doctors, hospitals or The Man. She had good reason – she came of age in pre World War II Mississippi, where black women entered the hospital for medical care and left having been given a Mississippi Appendectomy…a hysterectomy that was neither medically necessary, legal or ethical. Her lack of trust may have been valid, but is also had serious ramifications. My Grandmother didn’t go to the doctor when she was ill and toward the end of her life let treatable illnesses develop into medical crisis after medical crisis for fear of what a doctor might do to her. The ramifications for medical misdeeds heaped upon black women in the South and so ...

Shall we?

By goddessjaz • 13 years ago

8 Isn’t the Magic Number

Insomniacs and night owls rejoice! Researchers from the UC San Diego School of Medicine conducted a long term study to monitor the effects of sleep on longevity among women, and found that the women who had between 5 and 6.5 hours of sleep lived the longest. Whhhhhhhatttttt? (Insert Lil Jon voice)

For years, the common refrain has been that without 8 hours of sleep on a regular basis then you will be a wrinkly old broad that could keel over at any moment. Okay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic but really, I don’t know many women (or anyone for that matter) that get 8 hours of sleep every night especially here in NYC. ...

Insomniacs and night owls rejoice! Researchers from the UC San Diego School of Medicine conducted a long term study to monitor the effects of sleep on longevity among women, ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

The Feministing Five: Bryan Safi

Bryan Safi, as regular readers will know, is the creator and host of Infomania’s “That’s Gay,” a smart, comedic take on issues that affect the LGBT community. In addition to being a writer and performer for Infomania, the show responsible for bringing us the comedy gold of Sarah Haskins and Erin Gibson, Safi also performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles and blogs at the Huffington Post.

We here at Feministing are so grateful for Safi’s ability to shine a funny light on important issues, taking on everything from Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to why we see women quite a few straight women making out on TV, but very few lesbians. I personally loved

By Samhita • 13 years ago

Travel Diaries from the Nobel Women’s Initiative in Israel and Palestine

We are really excited to have Jaclyn Friedman share with us her travel diaries from her current travels to Israel and Palestine with the Nobel Women’s Initiative. Read about her work and adventures below.

I was blown away to be asked to join a delegation to Israel and Palestine led by Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Mairead Maguire, and organized by the Nobel Women’s Initiative. When NWI first got in touch, I thought it must have been some kind of misunderstanding. I’m a media activist, a writer, and an educator about sexuality and ending sexual violence. I don’t get invited on peace delegations led by Nobel laureates ...

I was blown ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

What We Missed

The Netherlands is on track to become the second European Union nation to ban burqas.

Infuriating: A Bronx art teacher has been fired after speaking about her experiences as a sex worker at the Bowery Poetry Club. Also, the Daily News sucks. “Hooker?” Really?

At least 78 GOP candidates would have rape survivors forced to give childbirth.

Dozens of girls were banned from their Texas high school’s homecoming dance because their dresses weren’t “modest” enough.

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has taken a leave of absence.

The Netherlands is on track to become the second European Union nation to ban burqas.

Infuriating: A Bronx art teacher has been fired after speaking about her experiences as a sex worker at the Bowery Poetry ...