Category: domestic violence
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Taslima Nasreen: Women’s Rights vs the Holy Hell
_____ Taslima Nasreen, International Women’s Day, March 8, 2007, Women’s Rights, the Veil and Islamic and Religious Laws _____ Taslima Nasreen or Nasrin was born in Mymensingh in what then was known as East Pakistan. Read more about this poet, writer, physician, radical feminist, human rights activist, and secular humanist here: Family Security Matters: Taslima…
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Nikki Giovanni’s “We Are Virginia Tech”
_____ Click on Nikki Giovanni‘s picture to be taken to the CNN article from which you can watch and listen as she stirs the crowd with her poem “We Are Virginia Tech.” _____ by Nikki Giovanni We Are Virginia Tech We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite…
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Warning: A stark poem on the gruesome murder of Addie Hall
_____ Something than which nothing greater can be thought so truly exists that it is not possible to think of it as not existing. –Anselm of Aosta Saint Anselm and the Murder of Addie Hall in New Orleans on October 5, 2006 1. Unbelievable, overwhelmingly…