My fever for the past few days is currently at 103°F, so I apologize in advance if this post makes jumps, but it all bears repeating. No one in the history of revolutions has ever placed sex before race, including white women, who consistently prioritize their race over their sex (see: voting for men who've …
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On February 10th, 2015, Yusor Abu Salha, 21, was shot execution-style alongside her husband of six weeks, Deah Barakat, 23, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, by a man who resembles a potato. The potato-terrorist’s name is Craig Stephen Hicks, a 46-year-old while male who, according to the malestream media, shot the three innocent students …
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Does our last guest writer even need an introduction? Metis, wife, mother, academic, and a writer on topics related to religion and feminism, is the badass behind MusFem, where feminism is spoken fluently--and the gridlocks of conventional wisdom is challenged. Under different names, Metis has always been a subversive voice of uncompromising reason and astounding …
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You have the right to bear children. No one may enter your body and alter the state of your existence with an entitled twist of cold medical instruments. If you are impoverished, you have the right to bear children. If you are disabled, you have the right to bear children. If you are of color, …
Since it's been a while since I've written here, I'll remind everyone asking What is the meaning of this!, that according to mainstream interpretation women should avoid applying nail polish because it acts as a barrier (we're suddenly against barriers now) between the water during wudu--ritual purification before prayer--and the surface of the nail. However, …
When I was little this was my favorite holiday, a truth I avoided professing until I reached a point in my life when I didn't give a toss. Aside from the gruesome origin of the holiday (that's sure a downer) I was fond of notes, flowers, red and pink, the expression of affections, and decorative …
Admittedly, even as a Western woman, I still grapple with the role of nudity in the feminist movement--the only real incorporation of it that I understood entirely had been the Slutwalks, and that is because the message wasn't, "I am free to be sexy!" but, "You can't rape me if I am, and you can't …
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