Tag Archives: War
New report: sexual assault victims failed, even at VA hospitals
Tweet As the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) reported last week on its new blog, a scathing new report was just published by the Government Accountability Office detailing how the Department of Veterans Affairs is failing at both preventing and tracking sexual assaults at VA facilities across the country. For example, they report that “nearly [...]
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Reactions to Bin Laden’s death by gender
Tweet“Throughout human history, war has been seen as a gendered activity, one that separates men and women into more sharply defined roles than almost any other undertaking.” – quoted from materials for “In the War Zone: How Does Gender Matter?”, a 2005 conference at Harvard University Where were you when you found out about the [...]
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What do you mean when you say justice?
TweetI do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I’ve never been so hungry that i willed hunger, Never so angry as to want a gun over a pen. -Suheir Hammad, First Writing Since I realized something Sunday night when the news of Osama bin Laden’s assassination broke and [...]
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What I Will by Suheir Hammad
TweetThis poem spread among my friends on Facebook yesterday. These are the words I needed following the celebration of Osama bin Laden’s assassination in the midst of endless war. Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet and acivist. She was born to refugees in Jordan and immigrated to Brooklyn. “What I Will” was written in response [...]
A world where there are waiting periods for war, not abortion