Take a Minute for Fair Pay
Are you blogging for fair pay today? Submit your posts to the National Women’s Law Center, and check out all the great bloggers who are covering this issue. While you’re at it, urge the U.S. Senate to support the Paycheck Fairness Act. Feel free to self-promote your fair pay posts in the comments.
...read moreCriminalizing Sex
This is disturbing: A German musician has been arrested on suspicion of infecting a sexual partner with HIV. The prosecutor’s office in the western town of Darmstadt said Ms Benaissa had been detained because of the “urgent suspicion” that she slept with three people between 2004 and 2006, without telling them she was HIV-positive. At [...]
...read moreWhat about the children?
A trans parent writes about raising her sons, and it will make you cry. With all the hand-wringing we hear about non-traditional families, it’s easy to forget that a little empathy goes a long way — and that what matters most is not how your family is structured, but what kinds of values you work [...]
...read moreBoys Teach Me Things.
Because I need a little humor to break up what has been a fairly depressing news day, a g-chat conversation between myself — who is apparently perceived as an expert on all things vagina-related — and a male friend. Laugh and enjoy: Neil: question Me: shoot Neil: how do you pronounce “kegel” as in the [...]
...read moreMapping Our Rights
All the way back at WAM (wow, was that really a month ago already?), I attended a workshop with Loretta Ross of Sister Song called New Technology, New Activism. Loretta Ross is one of my personal activist heroes, which is why I attended. I certainly didn’t leave disappointed, as she and Serena Garcia, also of [...]
...read moreThat was even faster than I expected.
With swine flu now hitting the United States, I figured it was only a matter of time before someone started to blame Mexican people. But this is an impressive turn-around, even for Michael Savage and Neil Boortz. Plus they get the “OMG terrorizm!” aspect in there too: Neil Boortz claims that Mexico doesn’t have a [...]
...read moreFeminism: Not a Religion. Men’s Rights Activists: Still Not Getting Laid Much.
Feminism is not a religion any more than physics, says a District Court judge in response to a “guys’ rights” lawsuit brought against Columbia University. And… yeah. No shock there. The contention? That Columbia uses government aid to preach a “religionist belief system called feminism.” Roy Den Hollander, the man behind the cases, sounds like [...]
...read moreDenist Defends Sexual Assault of Patients as Medical Treatment
Trigger Warning Since I’ve been blogging, I’ve come across a whole slew of excuses for rape and other sexual assault, made both by perpetrators themselves and their supporters. The stream is almost never-ending, and they’re usually pretty easy to recognize. There’s the “what did she expect dressed/acting like that?” defense, the “well, she didn’t say [...]
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Congratulations to Iowan Newly Weds
Earlier this month, a court ruling declared an Iowa ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Today, that decision took effect, and the first same-sex couples have applied for their marriage licenses. Apparently, all over the state there are couples lined up at government offices to fill out their applications (above). At least one couple — Melisa [...]
...read moreRIP, Bea Arthur
We lost a good one this weekend.
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
It’s a little bit late today folks, but self-promote away. Leave a link in the comments to something you’ve written this week, along with a brief description. Be specific — don’t just link to your whole blog.
...read moreDominican Republic Passes Complete Ban on Abortion
RH Reality Check clues us into the horrible news that the Dominican Republic has approved an amendment to the Constitution that outlaws all abortion. The amendment states that “the right to the life is inviolable from conception until death” — just not if you’re a woman who needs access to a safe medical procedure. Even [...]
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