International outcry arose this September when, just a day after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah announced a commitment to women’s rights and granted women voting rights in 2015, a woman named […]
Author: Holly L. Derr
Holly L. Derr is the Head of Graduate Directing at the University of Memphis and a feminist media critic who uses the analytical tools of theater to reflect upon broader issues of culture, race and gender. Follow her @hld6oddblend.
NEWS BRIEF: Mississippi Voters Get One Right, One Wrong
Yesterday, voters in Mississippi overwhelmingly rejected a personhood amendment that would have defined fertilized eggs as people and given them the full legal rights and protections of real humans. Polling […]
NEWS BRIEF: Mississippi Personhood Amendment Might Really Pass
Tomorrow, Mississippi will vote on a personhood amendment that would declare fertilized eggs to be “people.” Frighteningly, a Public Policy poll conducted over the weekend shows that this measure–which could […]
NEWS BRIEF: Mississippi Gov. “Concerned” Over Personhood Amendment
When a guy who can’t even talk about fetal rights without getting all misty-eyed says an initiative to give “personhood” to fertilized eggs goes too far, you know it really […]
Crime After Crime: So That the Imprisoned Shall Not Be Forgotten
But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. I was forcibly carried off from […]
Kate Adie and Parisa Hafezi: Profiles of Courage in Journalism
On October 24, the International Women’s Media Foundation honored four women journalists for risking their lives to cover the news. Adela Navarro Bello, general director of Tijuana’s weekly news magazine […]
Mississippi Blues
Folks, we’ve got a situation in Mississippi. In September, the state’s Supreme Court decided to allow a so-called “personhood” amendment to appear on the ballot this November 8. In addition […]
10 Questions for Anti-Choice Candidates
Amanda Marcotte posted an interesting rant at Double X yesterday about the cognitive dissonance between the desire of anti-choice individuals to make abortion illegal and their unwillingness to address the legal issues […]
This Again? House Votes to “Protect Life,” Kill Women
In another sure sign that Congress has neither a plan for, nor the intention of, addressing America’s massive jobs crisis, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted 248-173 to approve HR […]
Police Refuse to Investigate Gang Rape Caught on Tape
“Please just kill me.” The victim begged for death several times during a brutal gang rape at a Nigerian university. The men laughed. They recorded the incident, and the tape […]