A Clearly Necessary Reminder
This is why you don’t give an eight-year-old child an Uzi, no matter how much “adult supervision” he has. And why doing so ought to be illegal. Dear god. It seems to me that a little boy needn’t have died in order to figure that one out.
...read moreArgentinian Journalists Develop Plan for Non-Sexist Reporting
In Argentina, an organization of over 100 journalists has drawn up a set of ten “commandments” for writing about gender-based violence. It’s an interesting idea, and as someone who’s obsessed with how the media covers violence against women, I think it’s also a really necessary one. Here are the rules: THE DECALOGUE 1. The following [...]
...read moreUnder the Wire…
Belledame over at Fetch Me My Axe is hosting the next Carnival of Feminist Sexual Freedom and Autonomy. Some thematic suggestions (suggestions only) for this edition: -Halloween: “Trick or treat,” or “come as you aren’t.” Costume, role-play, illusion, trickery, sugar: what roles do any of these play in sexuality? Make it personal or political or [...]
...read moreIt’s Crunch Time in South Dakota
The good news is that a new South Dakota poll on Initiated Measure 11, the proposed abortion ban, shows the public is opposing the ballot initiative. The bad news is that we’re only ahead by a hair: On behalf of Daily Kos, Research 2000 conducted a South Dakota Poll about Initiated Measure 11 from October [...]
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