*This post of mine was also published on The New York Times/Women In The World.* Perhaps no single organization embodies the intense politics surrounding women’s reproductive rights in the US as profoundly as Planned Parenthood does. The iconic women’s health organization, which provides basic healthcare to low- and middle-income families, is no stranger to political […]
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It was great to discuss one of my favorite feminist topics, the role Millennial women are playing in the current movement, on PBS’ To The Contrary last week. I think younger women have long gotten slack for not being as passionate or active as their feminist predecessors, but I think millennial feminists are fearless. I
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Most of my readers know that before going full-time with my writing three years ago, I spent close to a decade working as a feminist policy analyst on Capitol Hill in Washington. That means that working and lobbying to ensure US foreign policy protected women’s health & rights was my job. So at the core,
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Last week on PBS’ To The Contrary we recorded a special episode which allowed us to delve into and discuss issues at a longer length than normal. Tackling welfare, entitlements & how the school system punishes girls of color is no easy task. But in my responses I found that I do believe believe it is
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* In the aftermath of the Charleston Shootings, which killed nine churchgoers in South Carolina, there has been so much discussion around whether the incident can be labeled an act of terrorism to whether the Confederate flag should still fly. Much of America remains wrapped up in this
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There has barely been enough time to properly process the Charleston, South Carolina shootings, but the politics over what we call the massacre of nine black Bible study group members in also controversial. I went on CNN this morning with the Editor at Large for the Daly Beast, & The Huffington Post’s Marc Lamont Hill
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With Hillary Clinton officially in the race for President, naturally there will be endless segments on gender, but I thought today’s segment on CNN with Carol Costello gave a different perspective on gender politics. I joined the Executive Director of IWF (Independent Women’s Forum), Sabrina Schaeffer, who is also a fellow PBS To The Contrary panelist,
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This week on PBS’ To The Contrary, we took on pay equity, how social media impacts marriage, anti-poverty experiments, and mothers who abandon their children. Washington, DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and I agreed on the apparently complicated issue of pay equality while some of our fellow panelists did not. I just cannot get my
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One of my favorite things to do is discuss and debate with my friends, especially those near and dear to me because chances are like me, they are passionate about gender, politics and culture. My best college buddy, Bilal Qureshi is also a fantastic and brilliant radio producer. Did I mention he produces NPR‘s All Things
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For the second time in just over a month, a blogger has been hacked to death on the streets of Dhaka in Bangladesh. The death of Washiqur Rahman sent a chilling message to Bangladeshis that the days of thinking and writing freely in our country are numbered. Rahman’s death comes just five weeks after American writer Avijit Roy was
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