Over the years, HIV-AIDS has been demonized and stigmatized, especially by religious reactionaries. Family “values” conservatives oppose condom use, even though it could save women’s
by Maia Szalavitz “Female addicts are seen as doubly deviant. A drunk man is one thing, but a drunken woman is considered disgusting” When President
by Mary Lou Greenberg Glaring artificial light 24 hours a day, no sense of time, constant surveillance, every remark recorded, better conditions promised only upon
by Kavita Menon …She said she would keep fighting for me until I was free. She was like an angel, someone who had come in
by Tanya Melich For both parties, the stakes in this November’s off-year election are higher than usual. The 11-vote Republican majority in the House of
by Jennifer Tierney The colossal bureaucracy of the United Nations, with its bloated underbelly of agencies, commissions and special advisors on the most pressing international
by Alan Clements …it is more important to understand the mentality of torturers than just to concentrate on what kind of torture goes on, if
by Swanee Hunt Change never travels in a straight line, so when Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to create a center for women
by Jennifer Gonnerman “WHEN WOMEN VOTE, WOMEN WIN.” THAT’S THE slogan on the buttons EMILY’s List was handing out in the months leading up to
by Kelly Candaele At five o’clock A.M. on May 2, newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair climbed atop a stage to face the glistening
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