Friday night I was live on Canada’s CBC discussing the role Bollywood plays in establishing beauty standards for South Asian women, telling us that lighter skin makes us beautiful, a myth which feeds the ridiculous marketing of whitening creams in the region. Although this is a topic I have covered in the past, nothing has changed. …
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The spirit of the Arab Spring broke the steel gates of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today as one by one Saudi women started their engines, defying the country’s notorious ban on women driving, the only place in the world where women are not permitted to drive. Today’s protest is the culmination of an online …
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Disgraced democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, has been garnering just as much press as her scandal-ridden husband in the wake of Rep. Weiner admitting that he not only sexts, but has had online relationships with as many as six other women. Normally when a politician is caught with his pants down, on or …
Dear Angelina Jolie, I am writing to you about Syria and the ongoing bloodshed we are watching across the country every day. You may have seen the consistent coverage in the news recently about the latest country in the Middle East to join the “Arab Spring.” Despite excitement over pro-democracy movements successfully removing dictators in …
There is no doubt that the recent revolution in Egypt got the wheels of the Arab Spring rolling. But just as quick as women were to flood the corners of Tahrir Square and the streets of Cairo in the hopes of a democratic Egypt, their voices were soon sidelined. This is nothing uncommon. Even in …
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