Despite the passing of laws forbidding organ sales, socioeconomically vulnerable people in the global south continue to sell parts of their body to survive. In 1994, India’s Parliament passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) to make organ sales illegal. Although superficially beneficial, the lived outcomes of this action were anything but advantageous. After [...]

On a tourist trip to Iran in the summer of 2010 I decided to visit the famous “Big Bazaar” in Southern Tehran. On my way, I found myself in a men’s compartment of the metro. In Iran, the last two compartments of each metro tram are women-only sections, and the rest of the compartments are [...]

Our culture is oversaturated with hypersexualized images of women. If you should know anything about Wonder Woman, it is that she was raised with the Amazonians - a society populated by immortal super-women that had once been victims of male abuse– thus, no men were allowed on their island. But if Wonder Woman grew up without the unrestricted [...]