Is it wrong for feminists to be football fans? This was just one of the topics we tackled, (pun intended), on this week’s To The Contrary on PBS. I’m all about women doing and enjoying whatever they want, but one must be conscious of the fact that there is a culture that pervades the National […]
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Even though 2016 is a mere few hours away, and already arrived for many of you around the world, I still cannot believe 2015 is (almost) behind us. A big part of me feels exhausted trying to rethink the past 12 months, largely due to the world’s refugee crisis, the war in Syria, ISIS and
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This time of year is normally filled with superlatives and I have to admit I love it. As a writer, looking back and reflecting on the year is one of my favorite things to do, especially from a feminist perspective. Things at the end of 2014 were looking so good for women that I wrote
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If you spend any time online then you know that when it comes to US Supreme Court Justices perhaps none are as revered as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or as the Internet lovingly refers to her, the “Notorious RGB.” Authors of the new book on the Justice, Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik joined HuffPost Live host,
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman:* As a child of Punjabi immigrants growing up in Buckinghamshire in the 1970s, Anjula Acharia-Bath was taunted with racist bullying from her peers. Now the founder of DesiHits! is a new partner at venture capital firm Trinity Ventures and a go-to for connecting Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
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*This post of mine was also published on The New York Times/Women in the World.* Artists trying to break into the American market would do well to study how Priyanka Chopra made it happen. The Bollywood icon’s U.S. TV drama, Quantico, debuted last week on ABC to strong reviews across the board, becoming the network’s
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*This post of mine is also published on The New York Times/Women in the World.* In a year that has seen secular bloggers hacked to death in broad daylight, progressive voices in Bangladesh made a bold move this month to spotlight the plight of homosexuals in the country by launching Dhee, the country’s first lesbian
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Talk about coming full circle. Three years ago Al-Jazeera English (AJE) took myself & AnushaysPoint.com on air by inviting me to be a guest on their social media driven show, The Stream. The show was really revolutionary and pioneering for its time, giving viewers a forum using social media. My two appearances, the first just
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One of the most vivid memories I have from my childhood home in Bangladesh involve Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. The book was always present in my parents’ various bookshelves, and although I never fully grasped the depth of the work until I was older, the faded, sepia shades of the book’s cover was always somewhere
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*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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