De-funding anti-violence oranizations in the name of religion makes my vagina (and the Baby Jesus) cry
Shankar sent me this video of Eve Ensler talking about The Vagina Monologues, and how VDay came about. It’s worth a watch, even if you don’t love The Vagina Monologues. The first few minutes are of Ensler reciting the opening monologue of the play, but after that she discusses the epidemic of violence against women [...]
...read moreThe Dot, The Line and the Gender Divide
I’m feeling a bit ill today, and not up to much in the way of, like, thinking and writing loads, so tonight I will simply show you my favourite ever animation, “The Dot and the Line”…
...read moreMurió por ser pobre y por ser mujer
Martha Solay, a brave Colombian woman who told her pregnancy story in order to challenge Colombia’s restrictive abortion laws, died today (pdf). She died because “pro-life” abortion laws in her country meant that she could not terminate her pregnancy, despite the fact that she had uterine cancer and waiting to treat it would inevitably kill [...]
...read moreTake it like a man
By which I mean shut your pretty little pie-hole. Or so say Ann Althouse and Glenn Reynolds. They’re responding to the AutoAdmit lawsuit, and, unsurprisingly, they think that it’s just a case of boys being boys and overly-sensitive little girls whining about nothing. Ann: And I could put together tons of terrible things people have [...]
...read moreI’m Never Getting Married
I actually don’t know if that’s true, but the closer I get to standard marrying age, the less I think it’ll ever happen — first because I think marriage is kind of a crock, and second because I’m becoming fairly certain that there just isn’t anyone out there who I want to be forever bound [...]
...read moreNews From (my) Home- Local College Ignores the Clery Act…
Back when I was an undergrad, I had the pleasure of attending Eastern Michigan University, just outside of Ann Arbor. EMU was a great experience for me, and I had a lot of really great profs there, and I enjoyed the experience of getting my education in a school where I had a chance to [...]
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