May 2012
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“This is about equity. Civilian women who depend on the federal government for...”
– Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the sponsor of an amendment to the Senate’s version of the defense budget removing some of the restrictions on abortion funding in military medical facilities (only in the cases of rape or incest, but this is a start), which was approved Thursday by the Senated...
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Why am I a freelance writer?
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Two female Army reservists have filed suit in... →
Command Sergeant Major Jane Baldwin and Colonel Ellen Haring, are filing suit on the basis that a combat exclusion policy based “solely on sex” violates their due process rights under the Fifth Amendment.
They state that: “This limitation on plaintiffs’ careers restricts their current and future earnings, their potential for promotion and advancement, and their future retirement benefits,” a...
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Terrible Statistic of the Day: →
The Justice Department statistics report that 1 in 3 Native American women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape, a number more than twice the national average.
Incidentally, House Republicans are against a bipartisan-supported provision in the Senate’s version of the Violence Against Women Act which would grant tribal courts greater authority to prosecute who are not...
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When I'm in hour three of edits:
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Always relevant.
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Thanks for sharing your summer reading, y'all... →
Lots of worthy and interesting-sounding titles in there - check everyone’s recs out! You all have such smart and varied and super cool reading choices. (And I’m quite impressed by the number of you choosing to tackle Caro’s LBJ biographies… no small feat.)
My own tentative early reading list includes finishing up what I have left of David Cole and James X....
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The One-Percentification of Higher Ed
It’s graduation season in an economic downturn, so it’s time to reflect on the sorry state of college affordability, student loans and job prospects in the US. Being a twentysomething here in the US, I take discussions like these incredibly personally.
This afternoon I read this comment piece by Nicholas Lemann in The New Yorker about the increasingly elite nature of higher education...
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Guys, keep me in the loop, what's everybody...
As if I need recommendations to add to the giant stack of unread books on my floor…
Also, if anyone knows of a really great book about the evolution of US immigration policies and politics, recommend that to me?
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So there's been lots of protesting in Chicago...
as well as a number of solidarity protests in other cities in the US and elsewhere. If any of you participated in or went to observe those protests, I want them! I have a submission or two from last night, but I’d like to include a nice selection of photographs from this event in my Occupy documentary archive. So get submitting! (And if you’re planning to go to one in the future,...
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WGN Live Video of Chicago protests. →
Stay safe, Chicago! (Also, SEND ME PHOTOS OF THESE PROTESTS! at torierosedeghett@gmail.com so I can post them on here!)
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“The upshot is that teen motherhood is much more a consequence of intense poverty...”
– Matt Yglesias at Slate, explaining that getting pregnant doesn’t make teen girls more likely to be poor throughout life. Being poor makes teen girls more likely to get pregnant. Poverty isn’t something inflicted on teen mothers by some vindictive paternalistic cosmos, y’all…
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Anonymous asked: how come everything you post gets tagged in politics? :/
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“Kennedy was not a moderate but an extremist—of varied enthusiasms.”
– From Jeffrey Toobin’s fantastic and fascinating #longreads piece in The New Yorker about the Supreme Court, the evolution of corporate personhood and the backstory for Citizens United. This line is a really excellent description of Justice Anthony Kennedy and his record of opinions as the...
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(Pop) Cultural Imaging and Modeling Possibility: A...
In recent weeks I’ve been revisiting The West Wing, a show during whose early years I was fairly young and which has been embedded in my memory banks as a model of the progressive dream: brilliant people who earned their jobs and spend their time doing The Right Thing. In many ways, it’s as good (entertainment-wise) and good-hearted (politically) as I remember it. The people are less...
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thebrownnotebook asked: Can you name some prominent Middle Eastern feminist figures? I know some Western ones but not many Middle Eastern, except for that woman starting women's football teams who was in an Al Jazeera report.
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roavl asked: Where are some good resources (academic or otherwise, I have access to databases) for learning about rap in the "Middle East", during the Arab Spring (or at any other time/place)?
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“I’ve heard from women all across New York who want nothing more than to take a...”
– Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who today introduced the Gender Equality in Combat Act to order the Pentagon to, within the year, set an end date for the military’s exclusion of women from combat.
Dear Senator Gillibrand: you are the BEST.
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sharquaouia asked: Oh hi there! :) I've always wanted to ask what got you interested in the Middle East and North Africa, especially your interest in Arab rap as a medium for expression during the uprisings.
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A brief update for my followers:
I’ve worked with Current Intelligence for well over a year, but I’m stepping down from my post as staff editor and curator of the Readbook blog (which some of you may have noticed has been on a hiatus). Being a part of this publication has been a really great experience and I’m looking forward to seeing the cool things CI will be up to in the future.
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thebrownnotebook asked: Thank you for being wonderful and truthful, in abundance.
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on the future of journalism as a profession?
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“Female parenting is significant and valuable work which must be recognized as...”
– bell hooks in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
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“By 1991, L.A. rap was all tension and little release. On Cypress Hill’s...”
– Jeff Chang in a very cool piece in the LA Review of Books: “I Gotta Be Able To Counterattack: Rap and the Los Angeles Riots.”
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Maroc: le rappeur Mouad El-Haqed condamné à un an...
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RABAT (AP) — Le rappeur Marocain Mouad Belghouat, alias El-Haqed, a été condamné par un tribunal de Casablanca à un an de prison ferme vendredi pour atteinte à l’image de la police.
Le jugement a été prononcé sans les plaidoiries de la défense, qui s’était retirée du procès lors de la dernière audience le 7 mai.
Il s’agit de la deuxième condamnation dont écope cet artiste membre...
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