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, …
Category: social justice
State of Israel Devises Ethnic Cleansing of Ethiopian Jews and Palestinians
Ayelet Shaked is a parliament member and lawmaker in Israel, the settler state built on Palestinian land, who remarked that all Palestinian mothers "have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists," appearing unaware that her agenda and occupation of Palestinian land breeds the "terrorists" intent on …
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The State of Oppression and the Strategic Refusal of Responsible Parties to Recognize Justice
When confronted with criticism from immigrants, white Americans will often nonsensically retort, "If you hate America so much, go back to where you came from!" with the intention of forcing an admission that the place in question is worse. But what they neglect, as expected, is to apply that segregative logic evenly: I might not …
LGBT people get to decide whether you are their ally; you don’t.
This email has been brought to you by questions from straight people like yours truly. To "fellow allies" or whatever, I don't know whether I'm an LGBT ally. I don't talk about how much of an ally I am or about being an ally. That is because the decision is not mine. My intention is …
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on the student debt crisis
There is one. It's a crisis by which I am decidedly unaffected. I will be graduating this spring with a B.A. and zero debt. I chose my university according to my budget. I won't be paying my own (nonexistent) student debt, but with taxes, I will probably be paying yours. Irrespective of that, and despite …
“collective” sin
Islam, thankfully, rejects the belief in Original Sin (17:15), and in fact anyone disabled of full mental capacity also loses the ability to sin, until (and unless) that capacity is restored--that includes children before reaching an age of understanding and, less often mentioned, the dreamer before waking. I was taught this as I grew up, …
Update #2: here take my ideas
A few months ago a very, very good friend of mine, at the prospect of having a Mormon for president, revealed a sentiment along the lines of, "I know it doesn't matter to you, Nahida, but it feels kind of sad and strange not to have a president who's not your religion for the first …
the fatal feminist 