With Thanksgiving drawing closer, many of us look forward to stuffing ourselves like turkeys and plunging into the sugared gluttony that is the hallmark of the classic American holiday. And […]
Author: Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen is a contributing editor at In These Times and associate editor at CultureStrike. She is also a coproducer of the Asia Pacific Forum radio show and studies history at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
This Thanksgiving, Remember the Migrant Hands That Feed You
There will be an unexpected guest at Thanksgiving this year, one you’ll barely notice. You only know her by her hands, which pick, process and package that rich feast your […]
The Wars Come Home
For military families, the war front and the home front are, increasingly, one and the same. The trauma of war invades the lives of men, women and children every day, […]
Arizona’s Disappearing Abortion Providers
It’s a simple political calculation: If you want to stop women from getting abortions and you can’t ban abortions outright, then limit the number of people qualified to provide them. […]
Montana Tries to Push The Pill Out of Public Health Care
Debates on reproductive health care tend to center on abortion, but pay close attention to a stealth war on a kind of reproductive choice that many women take for granted: […]
The Bible-Belt Miseducation of Pregnant Teens
Contrary to the preachings of anti-abortion zealots, a teenage girl’s chances of getting pregnant before she’s ready may have more to do with her race, region and economic status than […]
Bachelet Launches UN Agency to Empower Women
A new U.N. agency strives to put women front and center, and it’s headed by a lady with plenty of experience being at the helm. Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet […]
Getting Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Confess
If only “crisis pregnancy centers” came with their own FDA warning labels: “contains misinformation,” or “may result in poor decision-making.” Generally, however, crisis pregnancy centers have long operated under the […]
Is Single-Sex Education the New Separate-But-Equal?
Just when you thought we were over that whole separate-but-equal hullabaloo, Louisiana throws us another curve ball. One school district’s program to teach boys and girls in segregated classes has […]
It’s Not Abortion That Drives You Mad, It’s the Law
Abortion probably won’t make you depressed, but the obstacles you might face in order to get one are devastating. A new study from the Guttmacher Institute counters conservative fear-mongering about […]