There really are so few shows on US TV like PBS’ To The Contrary that analyzes news on women’s rights from diverse female perspectives. This week we talked about female genital mutilation (FGM) rising in the US, Clinton vs Warren and the Hobby Lobby family wanting to build a church on the National Mall. The issue of […]
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*This post of mine was also published in The Daily Beast & Global Voices.* Tucked away between the mazes of overflowing sewers and tea stalls in Tangail, just a few kilometers outside of Bangladesh’s crowded capital, Dhaka, are rows of brothels with sex workers addicted to a steroid intended for cows. Although Bangladesh is one of the
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Imagine convenience stores scattered around pretty much every neighborhood corner in a country that sells comic books depicting violent pornographic, often incestuous, cartoons having sex with children. Some even show children being gang-raped. Now imagine a government in 2014 moving not to fully ban this kind of material. This is precisely what happened in Japan
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Last Friday, the US State Department released a new report focusing on trafficking victims’ journey to becoming survivors. This is the topic PBS’ To The Contrary opened the show with. We hear so much much about the trafficking of women and children overseas, that we often forget it’s a massive problem here in America. This
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* What I love more than smart women is smart women working together for a good cause, especially one that demonstrates women’s rights are human rights, and this week was the perfect example of what I am talking about. Amal Alamuddin, international human rights lawyer representing
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman.* It would only be natural to assume the founders of Feminist Apparel, a t-shirt company that describes themselves as both intersectional and feminist, would be women. But the mind behind the clothing startup actually belongs to a young man, 24 year old recent college graduate, Alan J.
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*This post of mine was also published in Masala Mommas.* After the California shooting less than a week ago, when a man killed six and injured seven in a mass murder, feminists took to Twitter to respond to what was clearly a targeted killing by a young man who hated women. The killer, whose name I will
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Last Friday, I was honored to return to PBS’ To The Contrary, the network’s iconic weekly feminist news analysis by and for women. This time, we tackled a host of issues from the 200 girls abducted in Nigeria to campus assault here in the US to feminist men. My main emphasis in all of the
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When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, reading Martha Nussbaum’s, Sex & Social Justice electrified my feminist consciousness, so you can only imagine how excited I was when the place where she works invited be to be a part of a panel on South Asian’s women’s mobility earlier this week. Sadly,
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Last Friday, I was back on PBS’ To The Contrary, hosted by the legendary Bonne Erbe, with fellow panelists Sabrina Schaeffer, Debra Carnahan, & Rina Shah. We debated Fmr. President Carter’s new book which accuses the world’s major religions of being sexist, Sex & the City writer, Cindy Chupack, and why seemingly less and less millennials are getting
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