*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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Despite spending almost a decade as a feminist policy analyst, I always felt the urgency of investing in women, specifically in our health and in our rights, was a cause most policymakers in Capitol Hill could not grasp. How can lawmakers understand that legislation they author impact women and girls globally? More importantly, how can
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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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*This post was published on Masala Mommas, Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post Canada.* Any woman can tell you that as a feminist, your morals and boundaries are constantly being challenged, and none more so than when you are both Asian and feminist. As with any culture, our traditions come laden with sexist traditions and customs, and if
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*This post of mine was also published in Forbes Woman.* I am still wiping my tears from Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscar acceptance speech. But all the Hollywood fawning and ogling over her is making me more uncomfortable than proud, mainly because it serves as a reminder that moments like this for women of color do not occur nearly as
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Wonderful to begin the new year with my writing premiering on the Daily Beast, and returning twice to PBS’ To The Contrary, the show I made my US TV back in November of 2013. In the first episode, we talk about unwed mothers and putting caps on their benefits, Spelman College, more women of color getting
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes.* Last month when Beyonce’s massively successful secret album launched, I had it on repeat for weeks, and danced all over my house with my baby girl to the addictive beats of “Flawless,” “XO,” “Grown Woman,” and “Pretty Hurts” just to name a few. With her latest
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