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By Courtney Baxter • 10 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Do you know about Anita Hill?

Cameroon has been quietly locking up LGBT people for years with little international attention.

The last rural abortion clinics in Texas just shut down.

“It’s a myth as old as this nation: the idea that Black men are more likely to be sexual predators — especially of white women.”

On dealing with constant micro-aggressions within a bi-racial family.

“Homo queer fag bear daddy” (and 26 other portraits challenging sexual identities).

Do you know about Anita Hill?

Cameroon has been quietly locking up LGBT people for years with little international attention.

The last rural abortion clinics in Texas just shut down.

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By Courtney Baxter • 11 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

What’s next for the gay rights movement?

Stop blaming the victim.

Ann is inspired to make her own marriage criteria.

“He is what’s known as a love hunter.” This is creepy.

Queer in Public, on the basketball court.

12 smartest women of color on twitter.

We’re not invincible to STIs.

Epic documentary alert: America, democracy and immigration.

Not everyone is a fan of Issa Rae’s new series.

#WTF of the week: Judge threatens Sikh man for not removing his turban.

Will Pope Francis do anything to change sexism in the Church?

“I’m not interested in teaching books by women.” Umm?

…and 41 books this ...

What’s next for the gay rights movement?

Stop blaming the victim.

Ann is inspired to make her own marriage criteria.

“He is what’s known as a love hunter.” This is ...

By Alexandra Brodsky • 11 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Fully dressed superheroines are about questioning the genre, not imposing a moral code.

Kai M Green: “I will never straighten out my wrist.”

Hillary Clinton: Helping women isn’t just a “nice” thing to do.

Speaking of which, check out Politico on Hillary Clinton Fever.

The New York Times reports on the NYPD’s policing of trans people of color.

Muslimah Pride, FEMEN, and feminism as self-determination.

Keyword research on retail sites has a lot to tell us about gender and “neutral” defaults.

The Crunk Feminist Collective interviews Kathryn Buford of Live Unchained.

“My culture not outfit” campaign launches against cultural appropriation in fashion.

The idea of the “bikini body”

Fully dressed superheroines are about questioning the genre, not imposing a moral code.

Kai M Green: “I will never straighten out my wrist.”

Hillary Clinton: Helping women isn’t just a “nice” thing ...

By Samhita • 13 years ago

The pope tells priests, “marriage is not an absolute right.”

Over the weekend during his annual speech Pope Benedict the XVI said that marriage is not an absolute right. Strangely, while this headline makes it sound like he is talking about same-sex partnerships, he wasn’t (or maybe he indirectly was, I don’t know). But, the Pope qualified this statement by shaking a finger at high rates of annulment, mainly looking at the United States, suggesting couples need more marriage counseling.

via Yahoo News.

Benedict made the comments in his annual speech to the Roman Rota, the Vatican tribunal that decides marriage annulments. An annulment is the process by which the church effectively declares that a marriage never took place.

Benedict acknowledged that the problems that would allow for a marriage to ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

Bishop revokes AZ hospital’s Catholic status over life-saving abortion

Here’s one biggie we missed last week: Remember the nun who was excommunicated earlier this year after approving the life-saving abortion for a critically sick patient? It looks like that wasn’t good enough to be make an example of, and Bishop Thomas Olmsted revoked St. Joseph’s Hospital Center of its Catholic status entirely because it “violated Catholic moral teaching”:

Linda Hunt, president of St. Joseph’s, said the woman was in imminent danger of dying unless the procedure was performed. “If we are presented with a situation in which a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life, our first priority is to save both patients,” meaning both the woman and the fetus, Hunt said. She added, ...

By Rose • 13 years ago

The Pope’s recent gesture is not an about face on HIV prevention

This weekend, the Pope has drawn wide praise after comments he made in the recently released, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times, that support condoms in some circumstances. But I agree with the Christian Science Monitor’s assertion; this is evolution, not revolution.

Let us first look at the context of both comments.

In March 2009, the Pope was on a plane ride to Yaounde, Cameroon during his first visit to Africa as Pope when he said, ”You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope continued ”On the contrary, it increases the problem.” While he later followed up by saying that a moral attitude toward sex would help fight ...