Let’s Hear It For the GirlsChronically undervaluing teenage girls like this hurts everyone. Sure, there are practical reasons to support them, like the impact of the youth vote in an increasingly polarized political atmosphere. But more important is that each and every one of these girls matters. Each one deserves to hear, directly and repeatedly, that her ideas are worth sharing, her feelings are valid.Her selfies aren’t shallow — they’re feminist self-construction, an “I was here” painted on the entire Internet. She’s singing on the train because she deserves to take up as much space as anyone else.Some teenage girls don’t care what you think anyway, and that kind of confidence is not easy to come by. Some really do care what you think, and that’s okay because it shows their deep capacity to offer and demand empathy. My feminism is rooted in supporting these girls no matter what. The ultimate goal is a world in which it’s not just girls themselves who believe they can do anything, but we all know it’s true — and see them accomplish their dreams every day.
This tension is not new. It is a product of the systemic racism built into the institution, as ubiquitous as the architecture that characterizes the place in our shared consciousness. “Everyone who enters Yale is reminded that they’re in an environment that is a product of centuries of classism and racism,” Cynthia Hua, who graduated earlier this year, told me. “You can see it in the buildings. They’re symbols of the way society has been stratified—it’s even in their names.” (One of Yale’s residential colleges is named for the nineteenth-century politician John C. Calhoun, who advocated secession and spoke of slavery as a force for good.) And the problem goes beyond architecture—architecture just happens to be its most potent symbol.This breed of racism isn’t showy or overtly violent, which makes it hard to define, like a kind of low-grade radiation that kills slowly. It’s being the only woman of color in a seminar room, or feeling physically unsafe on campus, or having to endure stereotypical assumptions about one’s race in even the most innocuous of situations. Zack Graham, a black student who graduated in 2013, gave me this anecdote: “I showed up for office hours and the TA asked which sport I played—as though the notion that I was a regular student accepted through regular channels was an impossibility.”
It’s been a year since the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa students—now the most emblematic and publicized case of disappearances in the history of the country. When speaking of the anniversary, Nava expresses herself with the resolve and frustration characteristic of many other mothers, many of whom have searched for their children for much longer.“Many are saying that one year is a long time. But for us, no time has passed at all. We are still living on the night of the 26th. For us time is at a standstill. For us it is the same day when our children were disappeared. In my case, I had to go to the morgue to claim my son’s body. I never thought I would have to go recognize his body. But we’re still here, to ensure that the death of my son and the disappearances of these young men doesn’t stay in impunity.”
After the speech, several young woman jumped into the stage wearing the band’s signature neon-colored ski masks and started dancing to one of the collective’s punk rock songs.“I feel free when I can shout Ayotzinapa lives!” shouted a woman on stage, referring to the missing students who were allegedly kidnapped and murdered last year by a criminal gang in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.Alyokhina and Zhivago later met with the Mexican branch of H.I.J.O.S., a human rights activist organization created in Argentina in 1995 by family members of those who disappeared during that country’s military dictatorship. In Mexico, H.I.J.O.S., along with other rights groups, has actively pushed for more answers from the government in the case of the missing students.
Geena Davis is making it her mission to educate Hollywood in gender equality.For years the actor has been very vocal about the dire need for equal gender representation in movies and has backed up her words with research from her Institute on Gender in Media. A few days after giving a keynot speech at ArcLight’s Women in Entertainment event, Davis spoke with The Hollywood Reporter in a telephone interview.Davis explained that she specifically collects data on family movies because she wants to change what children see as they are growing up and creating their first impressions of gender in society.”We are training kids from the very beginning, from the first contact they have with pop culture, that girls don’t take up half the space,” said Davis, speaking about a study her institute did which discovered female characters make up only 17 percent of crowd scenes.
For the past 21 years, Nasreen has been living in exile in various countries, including India, Sweden, Germany and the United States.Due to her criticism of Islam, multiple fatwas have been issued against the author calling for her assassination. Still, 53-year-old Nasreen doesn’t mince her words when she talks about freedom of expression and the rise of religious fundamentalism in Bangladesh.The South Asian nation has been afflicted by rising Islamist violence in recent months. Extremists have been blamed for the killings of at least four atheist bloggers and a publisher since the start of this year.In an exclusive DW interview, Nasreen, who recently returned to India from the US, talks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and said that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions go through.Nasreen also believes Bangladesh will be headed for a complete disaster if the government fails to bring Islamic terrorists to justice.
The Taliban is attacking inside my country again: Jaleriz in Maidan Wardak, Kunduz province, in Ishpeshta near Bamiyan province, and in Ghazni province near Kabul. How can they make my motherland suffer such pain?Everybody in my country is scared and it seems that half of the people, especially the young generation, are leaving the country. Nobody leaves their country without serious thought. But with this fighting, everybody wants to leave Afghanistan. They would rather die in a river or on a mountain on the way to peace than live in Afghanistan and be murdered by Taliban.These are the most terrible days for everybody in Afghanistan. Yesterday I met one of my neighbors who wanted to leave the country. He was saying it is like suicide to stay here. “Let’s go from here,” he said. “It is better to die on rivers than to die by the hands of Taliban. If you drown in a river you die at once, but if you live here and are arrested by Taliban you will die a thousand times.” What he meant was if the Taliban arrests someone, they torture him until he asks for death.Everybody, even in Bamiyan, is afraid of the Taliban. Many people who cannot leave the country are saving food in their homes because they say that if Taliban comes, it will not be safe to go out and buy anything.Some days ago at the University I heard that the Taliban were warning Bamiyan that they would attack. I don’t know if it is true or rumor. If it is true, then it is true. But if it is rumor, it means that everybody is afraid and making up rumors.I myself have never seen Taliban, but I have heard many stories of their violence. During their regime they killed many people in Bamiyan. At that time I was living with my family in Iran. But I am scared of Taliban. I have heard what they do to girls and how they oppose education for girls. Last night I dreamed that the Taliban attacked my family. In my dream I ran away but then lost my family and I was alone with my niece. We were running and hiding from Taliban and then I lost her until I found my family hiding in a cave with many other people. People were talking. I was so scared and I shouted at them to be quiet. “Why are you not scared?” I asked. “You should know better. You saw them attack many years ago. If they hear you talking they will come and kill us.” Then I started crying. When I opened my eyes, it was time for the morning prayers. I told my dream to my roommate and she said she also dreamed about Taliban. All of this is almost more than I can put into words. I cannot truly express my feelings and fears. I don’t know how our dear president can bring peace to Afghanistan but I hope he hears our voices and will do something for our country. It is every Afghan’s wish.By Zahra H.
Espinosa emailed Spellman her op-ed, and Spellman responded on October 25 by telling her that, “[W]e are working on how we can better serve students, especially those who don’t fit our CMC mold.”Telling students who already feel isolated that they don’t fit their school’s mold didn’t go over well. Matters weren’t helped by a photo that began circulating of CMC’s junior class president, Kris Brackmann, posing with two white students who were dressed up like Mexican stereotypes for Halloween. Brackmann has also since resigned from her position.
Utah state child welfare officials on Wednesday were wrangling with a ruling by a juvenile court judge who ordered a baby to be taken from lesbian foster parents and instead placed with a heterosexual couple, saying it was for the child’s wellbeing.Judge Scott Johansen’s order on Tuesday raised concerns at the Utah Division of Child and Family Services, said agency spokeswoman Ashley Sumner.Its attorneys plan to review the decision and determine what options they have to challenge the order.
“I’m trying to make it on my own. It’s been a tough road. I fell behind at our first apartment and we got evicted. But I went through a job program for women and now I work as a case manager with Coalition for The Homeless. We moved into a two-bedroom in Bedford-Stuyvesant. I love my job, but I’m trying to raise four kids on a single income. We don’t have much extra stuff. We don’t have cable. The kids say they need internet for school but we’d need a computer for that, so we just go to the library. I’d love to hang up nice curtains. Or paint the house. But I don’t want to make our apartment into a home because I’m afraid to get too comfortable. I’ve already come close to missing rent so many times. I feel like I can never relax. But I have the most wonderful children. They never want me to buy them new things. But I’m afraid that I’m damaging their confidence. I can’t do anything nice for them. And I don’t want them to grow up feeling like they don’t deserve nice things. But at least we’re together. And we have a home. And we’re safe. I tell the girls all the time that we should feel lucky. I think they get tired of me saying that. But I honestly feel that we’re so lucky.”
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