taking over DC
Hi folks, My guest-blogging stint at Feministe ends tomorrow and I’ve been a terrible blogger. I hope you will forgive me for not posting more. In the meantime, I wanted to share news of a non-violent civil disobedience disability rights group, ADAPT, that is taking DC by storm. 600 ADAPTers are in DC fighting for [...]
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Requiring Gardasil for U.S. Immigrants
Well this is effed up. The federal government is considering making Gardasil vaccination, made by Merk pharmaceuticals, mandatory for female immigrants applying for citizenship. These shots, which vaccinate against certain types of HPV related to potential development of cervical cancer, are not mandatory for U.S. citizens. I am all for making Gardasil more accessible and [...]
...read moreMore on the Sarah Palin rape kit controversy
I wrote about this a while back, but Ezra has more details, so I’ll just quote him: Like Atrios, I’d stayed away from the rape kits story because some of the details seemed shaky and it was explosive enough to ignore until it firmed up. Now it has. Eight years ago, the Alaskan Legislature had [...]
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Jill on Ko Phi Phi, originally uploaded by JillNic83. I’ve finally returned from my Southeast Asia travels, and will be back on the blog full time. A huge, huge thanks and round of applause to the guest bloggers, who did a fabulous job (and whose posts I’ve spent days going through the archives and reading). [...]
...read moreGive $10 to a Feminist Cause, Win a Prize
Nice! Mac of Pesky Apostrophe is hosting a fundraiser for Medical Students for Choice: After Roe v. Wade, hospitals stopped seeing a lot of injuries and deaths from illegal abortions and eventually most hospitals stopped performing them. As a result of this, as well as political pressure and fear of being targeted by anti-choice whackadoodles, [...]
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