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May.08.2013
Delphine was shocked when she first visited Palestine. She discovered a massive wall slicing brutally through towns and farms, keeping people from work, schools, hospitals, and sometimes their families. She found a land in which...
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Apr.09.2013
A few weeks ago the Commission on the Status of Women convened to focus on eliminating and preventing all forms of violence against women and girls. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon stood in solidarity with women globally. Ki-Moon said:
"A new movement involving millions of people is taking...
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Mar.27.2013
I often find myself in the middle of discussions with strangers about how little people know about Islam.
Those making the critique are usually not Muslims themselves and the reason they're telling me this is because they've just met me as part of my work. For over a decade, I've sought to...
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Jan.10.2013
Lance Armstrong's confession was there all along, if you knew where and how to look. As a result, I suggested we all consider forgiving Armstrong for his past transgressions and try to move on with what cycling will become in the wake of the Lance Armstrong era, which occupied our...
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Dec.28.2012
The idea came from a vivid dream, actually of an intense sexual nature. I was having relations with a man (don't know who) and quite enjoyed it. I then remember going out of my room and telling other women about my experience, because they have never had sex. But just then, another woman ran down...
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Dec.04.2012
Let the word go forth this holiday season. Glory, glory hallelujah, the culture war is over.
November 6th, 2012, was VC day, the day the fifty-year war for the...
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Nov.18.2012
Her eyes mirror a thousand tomorrows,
And thousands beyond.
A tide of pain decrees her legacy.
Cassocked men weep
And shrug and turn their heads,
Wash their Pilate-hands.
Martyr to yesterday,
Innocence outshines
The lights of a thousand candle
Flames, begging the
Question...
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Nov.12.2012
Remember when the worst thing to call a liberal was a “card-carrying” member of the American Civil Liberties Union? There’s no feminist card, but if there were, it would be in my elaborate, many-zippered red purse.
People will tell you there’s a credibility gap between that purse and feminism,...
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Oct.05.2012
It's great having a Supreme Court Justice with a sense of humor. Most of them seem sober and thoughtful. Maybe it's the black robes. We should try an experiment, put them in some rainbow robes. Or maybe each one should wear a rainbow color with the Chief Justice in black as a somber reminder that...
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Sep.20.2012
At the end of 1847, not so long ago, a British surgeon told the world that chloroform was now being used to ease pains in childbirth. The surgeon was trashed by religious leaders and those who insisted that to offer up a pain-free child birthing experience to women violated God's will because of...
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