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Women Are Filling Mexico’s Prisons: Are They Clever Criminals Or Victims Of The Drug War?

Women Are Filling Mexico’s Prisons: Are They Clever Criminals Or Victims Of The Drug War?

August 14, 2011 No Comments

Mexican women find themselves in jail after assisting with crimes for the men they love. As the drug situation in Mexico gets worse, the amount of women in prisons has shot up 400 percent since 2007, with over 10,000 women in Mexican jails. Women are being used by their drug-dealing loved ones as drug mules, ...

Prisoner Almost Rolled To Freedom…In A Suitcase

Prisoner Almost Rolled To Freedom…In A Suitcase

July 8, 2011 No Comments

One girlfriend attempted to roll her boyfriend out of Mexican jail in a suitcase. Imagine your partner is in jail. He was sentenced to 20 years for weapon possession (must have been a shit ton of weapons!). The natural move would be to simply wait it out and pray that he gets out early for ...

Mexico To Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Nationally

Mexico To Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Nationally

August 11, 2010 No Comments

States in Mexico have been refusing to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Mexico City. This means couples have not had access to equal rights. Does this mean you marriage disappears when you cross the border? I hardly think so.

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

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