When we look at art, pop culture, and media on feminist and progressive blogs, sometimes it seems all too easy to force the discussion into a simple good/bad debate: See this movie because it has a strong female character. Don’t…
Day: July 28, 2009
Amid War in U.S. Health Care and Afghanistan: Midwifing Life
Cross-posted at RH Reality Check I received two emails in my inbox today. One was from The Big Push for Midwives, asking for help in advocating for greater access to Certified Professional Midwifery (CPM) nationally. The group is basically petitioning…
Better Than A Magic Eight Ball
Last week I got an email in my personal mailbox from a high school debater who found Feministe while researching the Hyde Amendment, who asked, “I have one question: ‘What’s with the toddler with the gun?’ How is that representative…
Sex Work and Marriage
Okay, so we’ve already had pointed out this story, the tale of a Gov. Official in Florida who was fired after he married a porn performer. The reason given? His choice of a spouse did not live up to the…
Senate panel endorses Sotomayor
Except only one Republican voted for the endorsement. That is quite frankly embarassing. Sotomayor is a moderate judge with a whole lot of judicial experience. It speaks volumes about the GOP’s general arrogance and stubbornness that all but one Republican…
Anti-gay professor will not teach at NYU
A follow-up to the NYU Law/Dr. Li-ann Thio drama: Apparently Dr. Thio has decided not to come and teach at NYU, citing hostility from students. I put in my two cents about Dr. Thio here. I actually think it’s good…
Baby taken away after mom refuses C-section
A woman in New Jersey refused a c-section during labor. She gave birth vaginally, and the child was healthy. But the baby was taken away and placed in a foster home, because the woman allegedly “abused and neglected her child”…
It appears that Dov Charney will have to fire himself.
What a shame.
Troubled Waters: Women on Waves Faces Many Challenges
NRC Handelsblad has a long article up about changes in laws around abortion in the Netherlands, which is pushing the amazing organization Women on Waves to cancel upcoming boat trips to provide abortions and information to women who cannot get…
Questions…and generalized misanthropy.
Right then…in my intro post I described myself as curmudgeonly, I think now is where and when I exhibit how and possibly why… It will, undoubtedly, be asked, either in public or on the aside what I am doing blogging…