As if Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s struggle for freedom could get any worse—especially considering the recently aired state-produced documentary that Amnesty International proclaimed was being used to paint her as a […]
Author: Kyle Bachan
Excluded Workers Have Plenty to Say on Human Rights Day
The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit earlier this year saw the launch of the the Excluded Workers Congress (EWC), a coalition of workers historically left out of the labor movement: […]
Hyein Lee: How One Feminist Devours Artistic Mediums
Looking at canvases belonging to Hyein Lee, you might just find iterations of the word fuck, products of pent-up frustration morphed into art. If you look hard enough, you might […]
NEWSFLASH: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has NOT been freed.
UPDATE: FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 2010. Earlier this morning, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has not been freed and that any reports that were making the rounds […]
Look Out, It’s the Guerrilla Girls on Tour!
Masked crusaders. Feminist artists. Culture jammers. Though several groups have branched out of the famous Guerrilla Girls feminist collective that first plastered New York City with posters about art-world sexism […]
World AIDS Day: Rejudging an Epidemic with “Miss HIV”
“History will look back on this period and say ‘one of the great abuses of the latter part of the 20th century was a failure to do AIDS prevention in […]
Shattering Glass Ceilings with the Globe’s First Woman Playwright
Four hundred years ago, a man named Shakespeare opened the famous Globe Theatre with Julius Caesar–kicking off a rich history of soon-to-be classics that inspired and encouraged men playwrights around […]
‘Women for Sale’: An Israeli Campaign Against Trafficking
If you were in Tel Aviv a couple of weeks ago, chances are you might have done a double-take as you passed by a certain shopping center storefront. Instead of […]
Women Choosing Math: But Does the “Choose” Fit?
Women can’t do math. Women have less mathematical ability than men. Women pursue other careers because they excel verbally. It’s biological. Plain and simple. When talking about the lack of […]