12-year-old Yemeni girl dies in childbirth
by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux I saw the headline “Yemeni girl, 12, dies in painful childbirth” in the gym this morning, and haven’t been able to get it out of my head all day. The story of Fawziya Ammodi, the girl in question, is terribly sad, and appalling on so many levels. Fawziya came from an impoverished [...]
...read moreRemember the men
by Thomas Dollar I must confess I was a bit nervous about writing for a new season of Equal Writes. As a newly repatriated U.S.American coming off a year in Sierra Leone, I wondered how I could be relevant to a campus discourse on feminism. When I was a freshman, Republicans in control of Congress [...]
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Ted Kennedy’s Call to Service (And How I Got Into Harvard)
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) It’s not wholly surprising, given the current political climate, that Ted Kennedy’s legacy has been framed by the mass media in relation to healthcare reform. But Kennedy’s political and public impact reached far beyond bipartisan policy legislation. For me at least, Kennedy’s most powerful (and, successful) leadership came in the [...]
...read moreIt’s getting harder and harder to think of a good intro title…
Just in time for Jaclyn Friedman’s piece on online misogynist assholes harassing Feministe guestbloggers (fab article, BTDubs), I’ll be Feministe’s guest the next two weeks. My full name is Nona Willis Aronowitz (yes, a mouthful!). I’m a loyal reader of Feministe, but only a once-in-a-blue-moon commenter. I’m a 25-year-old journalist living in Chicago and working [...]
...read moreAdios…
Thank you so much for the chance to share and learn with you during my guest-stint on Feministe. It’s been a terrific experience, and I really appreciate the various conversations we have had over the week. I wanted to leave with you with a few resources to learn more about reproductive justice: (Full disclosure: I [...]
...read moreUntouchable: Dalit women in India
by Laura Smith-Gary Hello, Feministe! Earlier this summer, in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state and the home of over 190 million individuals, fury and small-scale violence erupted when a Brahmin (upper-caste) political opponent of the state’s Chief Minister appeared to suggest the Chief Minister, a Dalit woman (that is, from the lowest case, often [...]
...read moreAllow Me To (Re)introduce Myself
My name is Hov (Oh!), H-to-the-O-V/ I used to move snowflakes by the O-Z/ I guess even back then you can call me/ CEO of the R-O-C, Hov!… My name is Jeremy Levine, and I’ll be guest blogging here at Feministe for the next two weeks. I’m currently a graduate student in the Department of [...]
...read moreEssentialism, gender and Caster Semenya
by Gracie Remington After hearing that Caster Semenya has gone into hiding and is receiving trauma counseling in the wake of the firestorm of publicity surrounding her gender verification tests, Peggy Orenstein’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine seems much more immediate and intriguing. In an article titled “What Makes a Woman A Woman?,” Orenstein [...]
...read moreCrystal Lee Sutton: Labor Heroine
Crystal Lee Sutton, originally of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, died of cancer September 12 at the age of 68. She was instrumental in the 10-year fight to unionize the J.P. Stevens mill, where she once worked for $2.65/hr. You may remember her as “Norma Rae”, as portrayed by actor Sally Field in the Oscar-winning film [...]
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