Sure, More Men Are Doing Pink-Collar Work, but Race Still Matters
by Akiba Solomon on May 23 2012, 10:07AM
Research shows that men in female-dominated fields make more money and advance more quickly—until you control for race.
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Akiba Solomon
Columnist, Gender Matters
New York, NY
Akiba Solomon writes Colorlines' Gender Matters blog and is an NABJ-Award winning writer, freelance journalist, editor and essayist from West Philadelphia. A graduate of Howard University, the Brooklyn resident co-edited Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts (Perigee, 2005), an anthology of original essays and oral memoirs about Black women and body image.
Solomon has been a senior editor for The Source, where she specialized in politics; the health editor for Essence; and the senior editor for Vibe Vixen, a women’s fashion, beauty and lifestyle spin-off of Vibe.
She has also written for a range of publications, including Glamour, Redbook, Vibe, Heart & Soul, POZ and ColorLines. As a panelist, she has spoken about women’s and social justice issues through the lens of hip-hop culture at a range of institutions including The Schomburg Center for the Research in Black Culture, Stanford University, Yale University, Harvard University and The University of Chicago.
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Three Ways ‘Girls’ and ‘Basketball Wives’ Are Scarily Similar
by Akiba Solomon on May 9 2012, 9:48AM
These two women-centered series are full of flaws, yet I can’t turn them off.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Arts & Culture, Gender & Sexuality
In Planned Parenthood vs. Texas, Judicial Whiplash Ensues
by Akiba Solomon on May 2 2012, 9:13AM
While the Republican-dominated Lone Star state dukes it out with Planned Parenthood, poor patients who rely on the state’s Women’s Health Program are in limbo
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Health
Hip-Hop Activist and DJ Fights Her Fiercest Battle—with Heart Disease and Fat-Phobia
by Akiba Solomon on April 26 2012, 9:45AM
At just 36, DJ Kuttin Kandi has a pacemaker, mounting medical bills and the courage to tell her story. Here, she explains what size, race and bias have to do with her heart.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Health
Government-Funded Crisis Pregnancy Centers Won’t Hire Non-Christians
by Akiba Solomon on April 25 2012, 4:10PM
Some crisis pregnancy centers funded by the government require prospective employees, volunteers and board members to “know Christ as their Savior and Lord.”
Topics: /NOW Blog
Yes, Travyon’s Death Is an LGBT Issue. No, LGBT Politics Aren’t Limited by White Privilege
by Akiba Solomon on April 12 2012, 10:21AM
Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff accuses LGBT organizations of race-baiting by supporting Trayvon Martin—revealing that, for Naff, the struggle for LGBT human rights is mere window dressing.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality
How the Right’s Using Women of Color to Shame Abuse Survivors
by Akiba Solomon on April 9 2012, 8:48AM
In our efforts to secure the Violence Against Women Act, we can’t overlook some of the less publicized ways it can criminalize people of color.
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Black Masculinity, Personal Loss and the Tragedy of Trayvon Martin
by Akiba Solomon on March 29 2012, 9:36AM
It is sad how this country continues to sweat black men. And in the past month, the one thing I can’t shake is a deep fear and dread for the black men in my own life.
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Why Native American Women Are Battling for Plan B
by Akiba Solomon on March 22 2012, 9:34AM
Native American women are three and a half times more likely to be raped in their lifetimes than those of other ethnicities. While some progress has been made since the groundbreaking Tribal Law and Order Act passed in 2010, a new report finds that they’re still fighting. This time it’s for the basic post-assault healthcare.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Health
A Texas-Style War on Women Guts Basic Care to Jab Planned Parenthood
by Akiba Solomon on March 15 2012, 9:34AM
Black, single, childless and back in college, Delia Henry represents a population rarely visible in the so-called war on women. And she’s about to lose her health care because Rick Perry is gutting a Women’s Health Program just to hurt Planned Parenthood.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Planned Parenthood
How Can We Help Kids Define What Is and Isn’t Healthy Sexuality?
by Akiba Solomon on March 5 2012, 9:52AM
In an age of free porn, rape-promoting video games and stupid advice videos from grown men, childhood sexual exploration is trickier than ever. There are no easy answers. Herewith, a few starting points.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Too $hort
The New-Old Southern Strategy Mixes Racism and Sexism for Nasty Results
by Akiba Solomon on February 28 2012, 10:19AM
GOP presidential candidates have thrown gender dog-whistle politics into the race pot. It’s looking an awful lot like the odious 1960s Southern strategy.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, GOP Primary, Gender & Sexuality, Health
Too $hort Calls XXL Video Debacle a Blessing in Disguise
by Akiba Solomon on February 23 2012, 2:20PM
Bad publicity, an enlightening conversation with activist dream hampton and “karma” produce an a-ha! moment for the rapper who instructed middle school boys to “turn out” their female classmates.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, /NOW Blog
5 Things Too $hort & Hip-Hop Media Can Learn About Sexual Violence
by Akiba Solomon on February 23 2012, 11:33AM
Ways to regroup and do better after the debacle of Too $hort’s violent, rape-celebrating XXL.com video.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Arts & Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Too $hort
Whitney Houston’s Gift to the World
by Akiba Solomon on February 13 2012, 10:09AM
When the pop superstar hit the charts, black music was in a precarious place. Ms. Houston showed us how to marry real singing with pop melodies without losing every inch of soul.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Arts & Culture, Whitney Houston
Komen Is Just the Latest Round in the Anti-Choice Game of Chess
by Akiba Solomon on February 9 2012, 10:43AM
And poor women and women of color remain the pawns who get sacrificed.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Planned Parenthood
The Tragic, Craven Undoing of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Noble Mission
by Akiba Solomon on February 1 2012, 10:01AM
Whether they like it or not, defunding Planned Parenthood’s breast health programs makes Susan G. Komen Foundation look anti-choice. And of course, poor women of color will suffer most.
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News Flash: Black Women Do Stuff Like Worry About Bills and Pray
by Akiba Solomon on January 25 2012, 8:48AM
Why The Washington Post’s well-meaning, but reductive survey about black women’s lives misses the mark.
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Bad and Good News on Women’s Right to Reproductive Health
by Akiba Solomon on January 23 2012, 9:21AM
The bad news: According to a new report, anti-choice laws hit a near-record high in 2011. The good news: The Obama administration didn’t buckle to conscience clause bullies hoping to deny women copay-free birth control.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Health, Personhood
On Baby Blue Ivy Carter and the Alleged Ugliness of Blackness
by Akiba Solomon on January 13 2012, 9:58AM
Of all the madness surrounding Beyonce and Jay Z’s newborn, the self-hating attacks on black beauty were the most disturbing. But even in a time when calling babies ugly in print is OK, we can still find solace. In good books.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Arts & Culture, Blue Ivy
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