World Hijab Day: Nothing to Celebrate
Here’s an irony: World Hijab Day—an initiative begun in the US in 2013 to promote cross-cultural solidarity by encouraging woman of all backgrounds to wear a hijab for a day—is…
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The Silencing of Ethnic Minority Victims of Abuse
Having worked in the domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention sector for almost a decade, seeking to end such abhorrent practices as forced marriage and female genital mutilation, I’ve witnessed…
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Is Misogyny Holding Western Women Back?
The term misogyny comes from the Greek word μισογυνισμός that translates as hatred of women. Very few would deny that gendered stereotypes and prejudices exist in the western world, but…
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The Myth of the Natural
If you want people to buy your product just label it natural. If you want to disapprove of something just label it unnatural. Yet, to embrace the idea that everything…
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The Beauvoir Bluff: What Gender Idealists Keep Getting Wrong about “The Second Sex”
“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.”—Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex It is…
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