John Moore/Getty Images News/Getty Images In this op-ed, political scientist and Tufts University lecturer Miranda Yaver unpacks why the lack of Republican response to a Honduran detainee’s stillbirth is so hypocritical. While officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were declaring that a detainee’s stillbirth did not constitute a […] Click here to view original […]
Trump’s new abortion rule is an effort to silence women and their doctors while no one is looking
For generations, two words in the Public Health Service Act — Title X — have been the key to low income women’s access to crucial family-planning resources. But the White House’s recent rewrite of Title X literally requires clinics’ dead silence about some aspects of women’s reproductive rights. The […] Click here to view original […]
Hannah Beachler and Ruth E. Carter Make Oscar History for Black Women
Noel West for The New York Times The wait was long. More than three decades, in fact. But on Sunday night, two African-American women won Oscars in nonacting categories: Hannah Beachler for production design and Ruth E. Carter for costume design, both for their work on “Black Panther.” They […] Click here to view original […]
Laura Bates: witch hunts never stopped – now they’re online
If you were tried for witchcraft in early modern Scotland, one of the surest ways to be convicted was to confess. Of course, you didn’t need to confess to be convicted, and confession wasn’t always voluntary. This problem led to a practice called “waking the witch”: a form of […] Click here to view original […]
Inside a Bristol warehouse is a vast history of women’s fight for rights
The Cable explores the present day relevance of the Feminist Archive South. In a Bristol warehouse, there’s an archive of feminist activism dating from 1960 to 2000 which takes up nearly 200 metres of shelf space. Established 40 years ago when no other institution was collecting feminist materials, Feminist […] Click here to view original […]
Sunday Week in Review #1
My Goddess, what a week! This week has stretched me to my perceptual limits. No this post is not about drugs. The breadth of my interests have always confused me. I am unsure whether I have an attention deficit or I have renaissance-paced interests in a digitally-paced world. Last weekend was a TWB blogging work […]