Category Archives: family

Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad: both abortion AND motherhood matter

Both sides are so blissfully wedded to their ideological positions that women become little more than props.
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Ukrainian feminism: from Yulia Tymoshenko to making babies in a crisis

"A feminist woman doesn't need a superhero."
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Curbing our Christmas enthusiasm

I liked prancing around the coffee table with them. It was brilliant!
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Tiger Woods gets no love from the Black community, again

"The question everyone in America wants to ask you is, how many white women does one brother want?"
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London Film Festival: “Blessed” is condescension in film format

O’Connor’s Rhonda is infuriating, pitiful and sexy as she meets with her case manager, Gail.
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Back to school in Canada: not fun for everyone

When your wallet is already a site of ruin and cataclysm, you will get the magazine drives.
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“I Don’t”: arranged marriages for HIV-positive couples in Nigeria

This is not the agency’s first attempt at policing sexuality under the guise of public health and disease prevention.
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A “feminist wedding” is an oxymoron

Make sure you use your wedding as an opportunity for activism and awareness, even as you participate in a ceremony that legitimizes male headship.
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From gift-shaped bruises to Alina Shaternikova: highlighting domestic abuse in Ukraine

"We're also trying to change the famous stereotype of 'if he hits you, he loves you.' Abuse is not an expression of love."
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The death of Dae’von Bailey and lessons not learned in California

The system which was supposed to protect Dae’von from harm placed him, time and again, directly in the path of an abusive monster.
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