This Century’s War of the Roses

Regardless of your feelings on Valentine’s Day–whether you were the cis-girl who staged Valentine’s day protests, the trans-boy who nervously wondered if the girl he liked could ...Read More

Argentina Says “Don’t Cry” About Unsafe Abortion

In the land of gauchos, pampas, the tango, grilled beef, Evita and now legal same-sex marriage, unsafe abortion is the leading cause of maternal mortality. In 2008, more than 20 percent of deaths ...Read More

More Violence Against the Women of Juarez

Before I finished my Ph.D., I worked in the cosmetics industry for ten years as a makeup artist for Lauder Corp, which owns such prestige brands as Clinique, Estee Lauder, Bobbi Brown and MAC. The ...Read More

Can Soccer Reduce Brazil’s Domestic Violence?

A troubling statistic from Brazil: Ten women are killed in the country every day due to domestic violence, according to a recent study called the “Map of Violence” published by the Sao ...Read More

Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil

Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains ...Read More

Guyanese Machete Murders Have Century-Old History

In the village where I grew up, in the backwoods province of Berbice, Guyana, several recent murders of women recall a spate of brutal killings on British sugar plantations in the West Indies in ...Read More

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