by Pam Zuber Menstruation and birth control. Discussing these topics sometimes makes people uncomfortable. Why? Society sometimes says that we’re not supposed to talk about what happens down there, that they’re just not proper topics for everyday conversation. Could this discomfort be due to the fact that men have often traditionally served as political leaders, […]
The Crisis in American Journalism Is a Labor Rights Crisis (Part I)
by Andy Carr To say American media has struggled in recent decades would be an understatement, but the past weeks of extensive newsroom layoffs cut especially deep. As CNN reported on January 24, from Monday to Thursday of that week, at least 1,000 journalists were laid off nationwide, including 15 percent of BuzzFeed News personnel […]
International Women’s Day: Continuing the Fight while Celebrating the Victories
Today is International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change.” In her context statement about the theme, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka states that the changing world continues to shape the lives of people and “we have to be intentional about its use to positively impact the lives […]
Health Care Is a Human Right
by Pam Zuber Being sick or struggling with a chronic medical condition can harm health, emotions, and finances. Sickness can hurt various aspects of a person’s life and impact society as well. It causes people to miss days of work. It creates financial costs if people have to cover medical expenses for uninsured people. Isn’t […]
Book Review: Invisible No More – Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
This book review was originally published in the Vulcan Historical Review, Fall 2018. Andrea J. Ritchie is a lawyer and activist. She writes Invisible No More “as an act of love, of mourning, of honoring, of commemoration, of liberation, as a contribution to our shared struggles, wrestling with the meanings of Blackness, privilege, solidarity, and […]
Book Review: Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
February is Black History Month. For the next few posts, I will review books by Black women who provide insight into the Black experience. Zora Neale Hurston (ZNH) was a cultural anthropologist. With her very being, Hurston occupied a space of protest of the normative within the field of anthropology as she traversed through society […]
A Humanitarian Crisis in Xinjiang
by Dianna Bai Among the corpses frozen in exodus over the icy mountain pass, will you recognize me? Our brothers we begged for shelter took our clothes. Pass by there even now and you will see our naked corpses. When they force me to accept the massacre as love Do you know that I am with […]
At the Intersection of Disability and Everything Else
When someone says the word intersectionality, do human rights come to mind? Maybe but probably not. For some people, intersectionality is a just buzzword used by protest movements or the liberal media, while for others is a means of social identification. It is okay if you have never heard of it or do not understand […]
ADA: Civil Rights Legislation for All
* This is a repost from summer 2017 by ABBY ROSS Today marks the 27th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). This was a truly groundbreaking piece of civil rights legislation that finally took permanent steps towards ensuring equality for all Americans. The ADA requires private and public entities to […]
CRPD: Implementation for the people, by the people
** As the IHR and other sponsors prepare for the “Symposium on Disability Rights,” the next few weeks will highlight some posts from the past as well as feature new posts written to provide some background into the various panel focuses. * This is a repost from summer 2017. The UAB IHR team had the […]
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