Two student groups, Jewish Perspectives on Globalization (JPOG) and American Movement for Israel (AMI), hosted a coffee talk last night regarding organ trafficking and donation as a political and religious point of concern for Israel. Organ trafficking presents a global problem, creating a platform for turning poor, under developedand overpopulated cities into major sites for [...]

Is feminism a zombie rising from its cold grave to suck the fun from a society that has moved past the need for humorless, hairy-legged lesbians to champion equal rights for the sexes? We’ve already achieved equality, right? Womyn hold powerful political positions and can enter any job market and be successful. Is it time [...]

Feministing recently tackled the question “Can porn be feminist?” Female pornographer Tristan Taormino identifies herself as a feminist porn producer in that her films are highly dependent on the actors involved. She tries to tell a story and remain respectful to the desires and comfort of everyone involved in the process. To her, this makes [...]

I’ve written before about being a Math and Womyn’s Studies major, mostly focusing on the how important the intersection of the two fields are to understanding the gendered nature of academia as well as why there may be fewer girls in math and sciences as a result of societal structures directing gendered bodies into specific [...]

Over break, I read Alice Walker’s new book, written as a testimonial, Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel. She spends a long portion of her characteristically poetic, searching writing recounting her journey crossing the Egypt-Palestine border into Palestinian territory. Here, along with the CODEPINK members, she spends time [...]

My History of the American Environment English class met early this morning for breakfast at SELMA’s Cafe to explore our current topic of food politics. Our reading, excerpts of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, supplemented our venture to Ann Arbor’s own local food, community dining. Every Friday, a house on Ann Arbor’s Old West Side [...]