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Oxford: Afghanistan's soft-spoken rebel
Znet Article, January, 12 2010
Andrew Oxford
Oxford's ZSpace page
Malalai Joya is only 32, but she has been an exile, a refugee, a teacher of girls in the Taliban's Afghanistan, and now that country's youngest member of parliament. She's still on the run though, and still threatened with assassination
Wolf: Putting Prop 8 on Trial
Znet Article, January, 11 2010
Sherry Wolf
Wolf's ZSpace page
While Ostensibly about the marriage rights of lesbians and gays in California, the Perry v. Schwarzenegger court case that begins January 11, 2010, will likely debate the constitutionality of discrimination against LGBT people nationwide. The tria...
Shymanski: Afghan activist urges foreign troops to leave
Znet Article, January, 10 2010
Jackie Shymanski
Shymanski's ZSpace page
The author of this compelling autobiography has been called one of the bravest women in Afghanistan, by media and politicians the globe over.
Ireland: Republic of Georgia Frames Gay Leader
Znet Article, January, 07 2010
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Arrest of Paata Sabelashvili, LGBT group founder, chills nascent liberation drive
Wise: On Santa and Other Harmless Fibs: Childhood, Aging and the Maintenance of Hope
Commentary, January, 04 2010
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
This Christmas Eve, I stood guard, anxiously surveying the narrow border between childhood innocence and the complex wisdom of messy adulthood. Little had I realized before now, how perilously close to one another are these two geographic spaces, ...
Weiss: A Voice of Resistance in Afghanistan
Znet Article, January, 04 2010
Suzanne Weiss
Weiss's ZSpace page
A book review of "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" by Malalai Joya.
Berlatsky: Leaving Camp
Znet Article, December, 27 2009
Noah Berlatsky
Berlatsky's ZSpace page
According to stereotype, people of idiosyncratic genders and sexualities congregate in cities. Their cabarets and fabulous performance events happen indoors and at night. For a variety of historical and cultural reasons, you probably wouldn't expe...
Penny: Moving Towards Solidarity
Znet Article, December, 23 2009
Laurie Penny
Penny's ZSpace page
For decades, the feminist movement has been split over the status of trans people, and of trans women in particular. High-profile feminists such as Germaine Greer, Jan Raymond and Julie Bindel have spoken out against what Greer terms "people who t...
Sinclair: Exhibition review of Ms Understood: Women's Liberation In 1970s Britain
Znet Article, December, 22 2009
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Exhibition review of Ms Understood: Women's Liberation In 1970s Britain
Carroll: Fat, Gay and Proud: A New Kind of Venezuelan Beauty Queen
Znet Article, December, 14 2009
Rory Carroll
Carroll's ZSpace page
Music swells, lights flash and the contestants strut on to the stage, waving and blowing kisses. All wear high heels, bikinis and wide smiles.
Joya: A Woman Among Warlords:The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Znet Article, December, 05 2009
Malalai Joya
Joya's ZSpace page
Book excerpt...
Fitzgerald: Afghanistan: The Mourning After
Znet Article, December, 05 2009
Paul Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald's ZSpace page
The President’s speech is history now. Al Qaeda is still the objective and General Stanley McChrystal will get 30,000 more troops and 18 months to make his counterinsurgency plan work. In a country the size of Afghanistan, even ten times that nu...
Grumiau: Hong Kong: Women Workers in the Economic Crisis
Zmag Article, December, 04 2009
Samuel Grumiau
Grumiau's ZSpace page
An interview with Hong Kong labor leader Cheung Lai-Ha
Ehrenreich: Not So Pretty in Pink
Znet Article, December, 04 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
Kaggen: Mammography Revisited: Research and Rationalization
Zmag Article, December, 01 2009
Marilyn Kaggen
Kaggen's ZSpace page
A writer returns with new research on overscreening
Cook: Israel's Arab women workers need not apply
Znet Article, November, 30 2009
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Discrimination, not culture, keeps families in poverty...
Chávez: Women Clamour for Right to Land
Znet Article, November, 27 2009
Franz Chávez
Chávez's ZSpace page
Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of indigenous peoples...
Finley: Grassroots Domestic Violence Advocacy is Alive, Well, and Essential!
Znet Article, November, 26 2009
Laura l. Finley
Finley's ZSpace page
An estimated one in three women across the globe endures domestic violence. Domestic violence agencies across the U.S. provide crisis lines for help and emergency shelter, among other services, but are often inadequate to meet the other needs of v...
Keber: Family Detention
Znet Article, November, 20 2009
Lily Keber
Keber's ZSpace page
When she first arrived in the U.S. with her two small children, Denia didn’t realize she was pregnant. Fleeing an abusive relationship in Honduras, she had traveled north to the U.S. to reunite with her mother, a naturalized citizen living in Ho...
Pollitt: Time for Men to Make a Sacrifice
Znet Article, November, 16 2009
Katha Pollitt
Pollitt's ZSpace page
Women are being asked to shut up and accept the ban on abortion funding in the US healthcare reform bill. We won't
