How Equality In Sport is Undermined by Compulsory Heterosexuality
By Leanne Norman, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. A major hidden ideology that runs through sports and that affects all women participants is the need to appear feminine, according to research that I’ve conducted in the United Kingdom. My study leads me to conclude that the fight to gain equality in sports will mean [...]
...read moreVolunteer Abortion Funds Ramp Up in New York, Nationally
By Mary Lou Greenberg, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York City abortion clinic one winter day in 2001, they had no idea their experience would affect the lives of over 700 women. And that number grows daily. As the students, Irene Xanthoudakis [...]
...read moreHeading Toward Menopause, Still Caring About Abortion
By Andrea Plaid, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. I’m not an aberration because I’m a childless, employed, divorced, college-educated Black cisgender woman — regardless of what the promulgated stereotypes undergirding the media stories about women like me say. At this point in my life — I’m in my early 40s –I’m drumming my fingers [...]
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Filming Against Odds: Undocumented Youth “Come Out” With Their Dreams
By Anne Galisky, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine.
“Papers”is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. More than two million undocumented children live in the U.S. today, most with no path to obtain citizenship. These are youth who were born outside the U.S. and yet know only the U.S. as home. The film highlights five undocumented youth who are “American” in every sense but their legal paperwork.
...read moreStopping Police and DAs from Using Condoms to Convict Sex Workers
By Crystal DeBoise, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine Last winter, “Sheila,” a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling session with me at the Sex Workers Project, and was heading out the door. Sheila was seeking counseling from the Sex Workers Project to help her make a career change, but [...]
...read moreTeaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action
By Ileana Jiménez, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists know edu hashtags and vice versa?” The point I wanted to get across is that many feminists today don’t know much about today’s education conversation and, in turn, [...]
...read moreMeaningful Enforcement in the War Against Domestic Abuse
By Madeline Lee Bryer, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine *Trigger warning* The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly on August 17, 2011, an international human rights tribunal has determined that the U.S. authorities paid insufficient attention to domestic violence and violence against women in violation of the nation’s [...]
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