Soraya Chemaly
Soraya L. Chemaly is a feminist and satirist whose work focuses on cultivating feminism through humour. She writes about gender, and gender absurdities, for The Huffington Post, Alternet, Role/Reboot, The Feminist Wire, BitchFlicks and Fem2.0 among others. www.sorayachemaly.tumblr.com or Twitter @schemaly.
The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body Is a Crime Scene
May 16, 2012 - 7:26pm (Print)
Bei Bei Shuai's case means that all pregnant women are potential criminals and that their bodies can be treated as potential crime scenes. How the "pro-life" movement is threatening to imprison a depressed woman for up to 45 years for attempting suicide.
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A Message to Legislators: You Deny We Have Rights
May 1, 2012 - 9:39pm (Print)
This speech was given at the WomenUnite Rally in Washington, DC on April 28, 2012, one of 53 events that took place in 45 cities around the country. The marches recieved little or no national coverage, despite the fact that thousands of people participated in a grassroots movement of more than 50 events co-ordinated by volunteers in fewer than 10 weeks.
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