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It Gets Better: Sanctioning Routine Violence
Between the movement for marriage equality and the It Gets Better campaign, I’m just about ready to give up my membership in the LGBT community. But I checked, and it turns out that I don’t have a membership card. It’s Read More …
The Death of Bin Laden: The End of An Era?
It’s official — for the first time in history, hordes of mostly white people rioted for May Day outside the White House. And most of them were The George Washington University students who heard the news about the gathering on Read More …
Fighting Against Women’s Oppression All Over Again
I’ve such a horrible case of déjà vu right now. Anyone else remember how the oppression of women in Afganistan was used as a polemic and rhetorical device to justify the occupation of the country and distinguish between “us” and Read More …
Japan On The Brink of Nuclear Disaster: Is It Time to Deconstruct Nuclear Threats Yet?
The nuclear fallout from Japan has reached my state of California. Reportedly, the level of radiation is not dangerous to the people of the West Coast so they do not need to take those iodine pills. I’m plagued with a Read More …
Pani (Water), Memory and Post-Colonial Identity
Miles from a place fondly called home, a small plastic bottle of FIJI Water peers at me through the doors of a convenience store, teasing and tormenting, begging me to take it back. I reach out fondly, only to jerk Read More …