Remembering Dr. King
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
...read moreThe Afghan Women Tug of War
Earlier this week, GRITtv posted an interview with a woman from RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. I wanted to post the video for you all to watch and just say a few things that came to mind as I was watching.
...read moreObama Speech Open Thread
What are your thoughts? I’m still parsing through mine.
...read moreNo More Rape By Contract
Senator Al Franken passed a major piece of legislation today, a major warning for the defense contractors hired by the U.S. government and their disregard for their female employees. It’s notable that all women in the Senate, Democrat and Republican, voted in favor of the amendment while thirty Republican men voted against it. In 2005, [...]
...read moreGoodbye Goodbye
My last day as a guest blogger! I want to thank the Feministe regulars for sharing your corner of the interwebs with me. Thank you to the readers who read my posts, and especially thank you to those of you who posted thoughtful responses to them. Like many guest bloggers before me, I leave you [...]
...read moreHoly War
You’ve probably all seen those Rumsfeld intelligence briefings, but just in case you haven’t had the pleasure, click over and read this GQ article. This is the kind of stuff that, if you replaced Biblical quotes with Koranic ones, would be on every right-wing blog (not to mention network news) as evidence that crazy, irrational [...]
...read moreU.S. Soldier Convicted of Rape and Murder of 14-Year-Old Iraqi Girl
Following up on Jill’s post from the other day, the news has just come in that Steven Green was convicted for his heinous rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, Abeer Kassem al-Janab. Thank god. Sentencing for the 16 counts on which he was convicted will begin on Monday. h/t to Gillian in the [...]
...read moreInterrogating Torture
Philip Gourevitch has an excellent comment in this week’s New Yorker about who we should hold accountable for torture. Go read.
...read moreTrial for soldier accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl
Steven Green is standing trial for the murder of Abeer Kassem al-Janabi and her family. The details are horrifying. (Trigger warning on those links and the rest of this post). Green has pleaded not guilty to killing 14-year-old Abeer. The crime he is accused of is nearly unimaginable: Prosecutors have said Green was the triggerman [...]
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