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It has been almost a year since Neda Agha-Soltan was gunned down during the protests in Iran. Last week, HBO released For Neda to commemorate her death and reveal more of the woman behind the symbol. More »
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"'You have to wear a hijab,' my husband told me shortly after we got married. 'Don't argue with me over this issue.'" So begins writer Dalya Hassan's somewhat disquieting account of "wearing a headscarf in Iraq": More »
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Since a pregnant woman was stabbed to death in a German courtroom, apparently for wearing a headscarf, the debate over Islamic women's dress in Europe has grown more urgent. More »
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A judge in Orange County, California signed an agreement last week that will allow Muslim women to wear county-issued headscarves in jail. The change came after a Muslim woman named Jameelah Medina filed a lawsuit against the county after she was arrested in 2005 for having an invalid train pass and forced to remove her headscarf in from of a male deputy. [MSNBC] More »
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• A ruling on Wednesday by the Turkish Constitutional Court that reversed a ruling that would have allowed women to wear headscarves at universities is being met with fierce opposition. • Got a bubble wrap-popping addiction? Get your fingers on this bubble wrap calendar. • "Dozens" of anti-choice protesters came out to picket the groundbreaking of a new Planned Parenthood in Portland on Wednesday. • A Wisconsin man was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly peed on his female roommate's dog and pushed the roommate's sister into a wall after the roommate denied his sexual advances. • More »
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Another sad consequence of our crappy economy: dognapping! Pet thefts are on the rise, with a spike in February when contraband pooches may have been given as Valentine's gifts. • Is your period messing up your morale? Try this "vulvar deodorant system" with a little flower that dangles out of your vag. • Double dutch is now an officially sanctioned sport in New York City's high schools. It's primarily played by girls, but check out this movie about a boy who quits boxing to jump with the best of them. • Strip clubs are illegal in Iowa, but "art centers" where women happen to dance nude are totally fine — until the sheriff's 17-year-old niece decides to take the stage. • More »
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Does this photo of the 2008 US Womens Olympic Gymnastics Team piss you off? If so, you're in agreement with Feminist Law Professors, who wonder if a photographer would ever ask the men's gymnastics team to stick their butts out like that. • Melvina Lathan will be the first black woman to chair the New York State Athletic Commission, meaning she is basically New York's boxing czar. She replaces Ron Stevens, a former "matchmaker" — he organized fights, not weddings. • Two Muslim women say they were refused jobs at a Dearborn, Michigan McDonald's — one of only two in the country to serve halal McNuggets — because they wouldn't remove their headscarves. • Reader-submitted awesome: The Girl Effect. More »
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Perhaps you have already let out a long woebegone sigh re the news of the two Obama volunteers who barred headscarf-wearing Muslim women from sitting near him at a rally in Detroit on Monday so as not to generate any more photographic fodder for the insane wing conspiracy. I would say this was a low point, but that would be to pretend the French ban on the things or the senseless murder of Alia Ansari — or for that matter, Monday's other headscarf debacle, the judge who ordered a London beauty salon owner to pay £4,000 to a Muslim woman she'd denied a job on account of her headscarf — hadn't happened. So here's the thing: can we drop this subject? And if not, can I somehow blame society's irritating insistence that the way a person dresses is the purest expression of a woman's identity for this fucking mess? Because back in Catholic school, I associated headscarves with Jesus' mom, and nuns. I didn't really get it with the nuns. No one was forcing them to don sixty pounds of black polyester in August. But guess what? More »
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