So, former NYPD officer Kenneth Moreno would like the world to feel bad for having to travel the “rough road” of the past two and half years since he was indicted for raping an intoxicated woman after escorting her to her apartment. Last Thursday, Moreno was found not guilty, as was former officer Franklin Mata [...]
Following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former managing director of the International Monetary Fund with sexual assault charges pending, news has begun to focus on his successor. At this point, it appears that the most likely candidate is French Finance Minister Christine LaGuard. The news of the first female director of the IMF could not come [...]
Yesterday marked the 2nd anniversary of Harvey Milk Day, and what would have been the 81st birthday of our country’s first openly gay politician. As a city supervisor for San Francisco, Milk successfully passed a gay rights ordinance that outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation, the first of its kind and a signifier of change [...]
Good news campus blog readers – we’ve got our new blog site up and running! Our posts here (feministcampus.org/blog) begin with 2011, but if you’re looking for an older post you can still find them on our old blog (feministcampus.blogspot.com). We’re excited to have this new space for our campus feminist activist blog posts. [...]
This is a guest post by Students for CEDAW co-founders Lara Yeo & Alex Hayes. For more information find them on Facebook or email them at studentsforcedaw[at]gmail.com. President Carter signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1980. Today, the United States (US) remains one of [...]
Today, May 5, 2011 is International Day of the Midwife, which was spearheaded by the International Confederation of Midwives in 1992. It’s been said over and over, but it bears repeating. ONE WOMAN DIES EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY DUE TO COMPLICATIONS OF CHILDBIRTH. That’s approximately 529,000 women each year, with another 10 MILLION more [...]
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