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Murder In Jefferson’s Village: UVA Death Exposes Reality of Intimate Partner Violence

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I have always held the torch so high for my alma mater UVA (University of Virginia) that I was pretty much blind to any criticism about the University: Perfect UVA in perfect little Charlottesville where perfect students study. Needless to say that when I read about the murder of Lacrosse player Yeardley Love allegedly by […]

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6 Out of 10 Migrant Women Raped In Mexico

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If that headline doesn’t convince you why immigration is a feminist issue, I honestly don’t know what will. Amnesty International reports that six out of 10 women and girls experience sexual violence as they cross through Mexico hoping to come to the United States. Rape is so common, in fact, that some smugglers allegedly demand

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A Woman Like Benazir

Politics Not As Usual, Violence Against Women / /

This month, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry investigating the death of Benazir Bhutto released a report which tells us nothing we did not already know: The 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Bhutto could have been prevented if the government of then President Pervez Musharraf had provided her with “adequate security”. Thank you,

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Fair & Lovely? Indian Vogue Takes On The Desi Color Complex

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Anybody that grew up in the Indian Subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), especially as  a woman, believed one thing: Being fair is better. Lighter skin was always and continues to be equated with success in all realms of your life. How many of us Desi women can count the times we heard the phrase, “She is

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The End of The Affair: Karzai No Longer The Puppet US Needs Him To Be

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Just when you thought nothing could make the US war in Afghanistan get any worse, it has. American public support for the war is at an all time low, more and more people want to call it a day in Kabul and bring the troops home, Afghan civilian causalities continue to mount, and the question

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Watering Your Neighbor’s Garden: The Global War On Baby Girls

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According to Chinese State media, when local residents first discovered the bodies of 21 babies along the riverbank, they thought they were toys. The babies, who ranged in age from newborns to several months, had hospital tags linking them back to the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, a city in eastern China. It is

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Too Powerful or Too Black? The Fall of White House Staffer Desirée Rogers

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The dust is still settling in Washington after the resignation of White House Staffer and close Obama insider, Desirée Rogers. As Social Secretary to the Obamas, the task at hand for Rogers was to project the glamor of the First Couple. The New York Times credits Rogers with “personifying the fresh, new-generation approach that the

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