Women and oppressed genders

Cuomo out, #TimesUp for all you misogynist ruling class creeps!

Finally, after months of denials, dismissals and weak excuses for multiple incidents of sexual harassment, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo…

August 17, 2021

Behind the media debate on Afghanistan debacle

Aug. 15 — Insurgent Afghan forces, under Taliban leadership, have surrounded the capital city Kabul. After its initial withdrawal, Washington…

August 15, 2021

Women’s League Convention of the Communist Party of Kenya holds inaugural meeting  

Despite attacks and repression of their Party by the government, the Communist Party of Kenya held its first-ever Women’s League…

August 6, 2021

Shackling harms hospitalized incarcerated workers

An incarcerated person must be very sick before the prison administration will allow them to go to an outside hospital.…

August 2, 2021

Honoring mental health issues, athletes like Simone Biles deserve support

The biggest news coming out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is not about the pandemic excluding large numbers of crowds…

July 30, 2021

Esther Bejarano ¡Presente!

This lightly edited article first appeared in Berlin Bulletin No. 193, July 20, 2021. She was all of 96 years,…

July 30, 2021

The case of Britney Spears: Lessons on the patriarchy, mental health and art as a commodity

It is shocking to me that a 39-year-old woman cannot take out her own IUD if she so wishes. Or…

July 20, 2021

‘Say her name: Sandra Bland’

July 10 marks the sixth anniversary of the day when Sandra Bland was pulled over while driving to a new…

July 9, 2021

Texas: ‘¡Alto a ataques a los derechos reproductivos! No, a la Ley 8 del Senado’ 

El gobernador Greg Abbott dijo a los medios de comunicación el 19 de mayo: “Nuestro creador nos dotó del derecho…

July 2, 2021

DC action demands: ‘End Trans ICE Detention!’

Carrying signs and three brightly painted pink coffins, transgender immigrant rights activists and their supporters marched on the White House…

July 1, 2021