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Apr 2, 2019
5 min

Feminism: Definitions Have Power

Feminism is a buzzword in the field of international development. After the Truman doctrine in 1949, many Western nations followed the le...

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Jiwoo Jeong

Mar 29, 2019
3 min

Comfort Women and Historical Amnesia

Throughout history, pursuits of hegemony have often been trailed by the perpetuation of systematic rape and sexual violence. Exploitation...

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LGBTQ+ Social Strife in Bolsonaro’s Brasil

Ella Wischnewsky

Mar 25, 2019
2 min

LGBTQ+ Social Strife in Bolsonaro’s Brasil

Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected in January of 2019, has already become known for his conservative policies in govern...

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Empowering Women in the Healthcare Sector

Nicole Houdelot

Mar 24, 2019
3 min

Empowering Women in the Healthcare Sector

Health, as well as gender, are not solely biologically determined, but also socially constructed. Indeed, the existing healthcare system...

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Transgender Athletes: A League of Their Own?

Su Ning Goh

Mar 21, 2019
5 min

Transgender Athletes: A League of Their Own?

Where queer individuals have achieved increasing recognition in many societies around the world, there has been a consequent rise in disc...

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The Perpetuation of Systemic Inequality Through Female Genital Mutilation

Marilou Cameron

Mar 20, 2019
5 min

The Perpetuation of Systemic Inequality Through Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice that “comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female...

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Grace Hu

Mar 15, 2019
3 min

"Leftover Women" and Gender Relations

China’s one-child policy was introduced in 1979, which stipulated that each family was legally limited to having one single child, and in...

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Lucy Brock

Mar 12, 2019
6 min

The Pink Tax

I have a friend who’s had short hair for a while now--“boy-short” or a “pixie cut”. Last summer she recounted a story to me of when her a...

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