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Pollit: Thank You, Hillary, for Opening the Door for Other Women
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Katha Pollit
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Hillary Clinton came this close. In fact, as of this writing, she hasn't formally conceded. Nobody really understands why: why she stuck it out this long, given the math, and why she gave such a grudging, graceless version of her stump speech afte...
Acosta: Cuba: Sexual Diversity - the Rainbow Revolution
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Dalia Acosta
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Nearly 50 years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, sexual minorities are at last beginning to feel that their voice is being heard and that they can finally take their place in the movement towards a more just and inclusive society.
Jones: MIlitary Sexual Trauma in the US Military Part One
Video, May, 14 2008
Nathan Jones
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Military Sexual Trauma is an issue that faces more and more of America's soldiers. Most victims are female, and while the pundits and politicans clamor for us to support the troops, it seems as though they have forgotten to do the very same...
Jones: Military Sexual Trauma Part 3
Video, May, 14 2008
Nathan Jones
Jones's ZSpace page
Military Sexual Trauma is an issue that faces more and more of America's soldiers. Most victims are female, and while the pundits and politicans clamor for us to support the troops, it seems as though they have forgotten to do the very same...
Jones: "Me, I'm a Camera"
Znet Article, May, 13 2008
Ann Jones
Jones's ZSpace page
The last time I was back in the U.S.A., everyone was talking about "change." Change seemed to mean electing Barack Obama president and thereby bringing all Americans together in blissful agreement. But real change isn't like that. Didn't the guy w...
Pollitt: Backlash Spectacular
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Katha Pollitt
Pollitt's ZSpace page
Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Let me run that by you again. Washington University, the distinguished 155-year-old seat of higher learning in St. Louis, is giving an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly--arc...
Schenwar: Women in the Running
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Maya Schenwar
Schenwar's ZSpace page
Whether or not we elect a female president this year, the US has a long way to go when it comes to political gender equality.
Ehrenreich: Hillary’s Gift to Women
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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In Friday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.” F...
Paterson: Juarez Mothers Demand Justice for their Murdered Daughters
Znet Article, May, 09 2008
Kent Paterson
Paterson's ZSpace page
No contemporary human rights crisis in Mexico has moved world public opinion more than the rapes and murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua.
Ireland: Nepal's First Gay MP Speaks
Znet Article, May, 08 2008
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
In an historic breakthrough, the leader of Nepal's largest LGBT group, the Blue Diamond Society, has been named to a seat in the parliament following April 10 elections in that nation, the largely mountainous home to some 30 million people.
Reed: Race, Feminism and Hillary Clinton
Znet Article, May, 03 2008
Betsy Reed
Reed's ZSpace page
In the course of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the White House--in which she became the first woman ever to prevail in a state-level presidential primary contest-- she has been likened to Lorena Bobbitt (by Tucker Carlson); a "hellish housewi...
Berlet: Right-Wing Witch Hunts, Then and Now
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Chip Berlet
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Debbie Almontaser and Hallie Flanagan were both targeted by public witch hunts for their educational and cultural activities. Both were smeared by small-minded xenophobic right-wingers. Both stood up to their accusers. Both belong in the Bill of R...
Yoder: Chastity Science Still an Oxymoron
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Steve Yoder
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Science has not been kind to the Bush administration’s abstinence- until-marriage programs in the last 12 months. Three large-scale studies in 2007 found that federally funded chastity promotion has no effect on teen behavior. The latest of these,...
Wright: Is There an Army Cover-Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?
Znet Article, April, 28 2008
Ann Wright
Wright's ZSpace page
The Department of Defense statistics are alarming - one in three women who join the US military will be sexually assaulted or raped by men in the military. The warnings to women should begin above the doors of the military recruiting stations, as ...
Jensen: The Sorrows of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election
Commentary, April, 28 2008
Robert Jensen
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It may seem odd to talk of sorrows around race and gender in politics when we are a few months away from being able to vote for a white woman or a black man for president of the United States. When I was born in 1958, any suggestion that such an e...
Ireland: At World's Crossroads, Backlash
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Police raids on gay organizations in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and in Turkey have underscored the fragile position of LGBT peoples in those two countries.
Faludi: They Always Play the Gender Card
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Susan Faludi
Faludi's ZSpace page
No sooner had Hillary Clinton proceeded from the Democratic presidential debate to a speech at Wellesley College last week than the wailing began. Barack Obama hit the "Today" show accusing her of playing the "don't pick on me" woman and a chorus ...
Joya: Malalai Joya: "truth has a very strong voice"
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Malalai Joya
Joya's ZSpace page
Stephen Harper's government has not seen fit to comment on the case of Malalai Joya, the suspended Afghan parliamentarian who has become known around the world because of her courage in denouncing the warlords and war criminals who have been empow...
Ireland: Massimo Consoli, An Italian Giant, Dies
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Massimo Consoli, known as the father of the Italian gay movement, died on Sunday, November 4, at the age of 61 after a long battle against cancer.
Street: Establishment Politics in “Rebel’s Clothing:” Corporate Power, Populist Pandering, and the Ironies of Identity in the Democratic Presidential Race
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
John Edwards’ “left-leaning” (Nagourney 2007) attempt to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in the name of ordinary working people and against corporate rule and “the privileged few” faces three interrelated obstacles. His fi...
