This week marks two landmark anniversaries in the history of American voting rights. Ninety-one years ago tomorrow, U.S. women won the legal right to vote. Forty-eight years ago this Sunday, […]
Author: Annie Shields
Economic Woes, Nefarious PACs and 100 Years of Lucy: Editors’ Picks, July 31-August 6
For anyone who depends on money to fund their existence, getting through this week may have been an emotional roller coaster. The Senate finally approved the so-called “Satan sandwich” debt […]
Rosa Parks Revelations and Fearless Feminist Governors: Editors’ Picks, July 24-30
A new revelation about the life of Rosa Parks surfaced this week: Among thousands of her personal items collected by Guernsey’s Auctioneers was a six-page, handwritten account of an attempted […]
DADT, DOMA and the Truth About Fathers’ Rights Groups: Editors’ Picks: July 17-23
Friday marked the official end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that openly gay service members will begin to […]
Almost 100,000 Have Told the FBI That Rape Is Rape. Have You?
Nearly 100,000 people have signed onto the Ms. and Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) campaign to change the FBI’s definition of “forcible” rape. After a Ms. investigative report found that the […]
TOMS Joins Forces with Anti-Gay, Anti-Choice Group
UPDATE: In response to public outcry, TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie has posted this mea culpa to his blog, apologizing for his appearance at a Focus on the Family event and […]
Apparently Richard Dawkins Is a Jerk and Miscarrying Is a Crime: Editors’ Picks, July 3-July 9
World-renowned evolutionary biologist/atheist/smarty-pants Richard Dawkins showed his true colors this week (which, one assumes, are the colors of the official flag of privilege) when he instigated a comment war with […]
Imaginary Lesbians, Pro-Choice Christians and Santorum’s Gay Friends: Editors’ Picks, 6/12-6/18
This week the blogosphere was shocked when it was revealed that the popular American-born Syrian lesbian blogger Amina Abdullah Araf, the voice of the widely read blog “A Gay Girl […]
No Comment: “Give Us Your Cash, Bitch”
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes “Give Us Your Cash, Bitch,” the frontrunner for the most racism and misogyny ever combined in one political ad. In […]
Weinergate, the Black Church and Child Brides: Editors’ Picks, 6/5-6/11
There has been a lot written this week about “Weinergate” after Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), known for his House floor diatribes, admitted Monday to having sexual Internet relationships with at […]