Did you know it was Jill’s birthday?
I didn’t either until she unceremoniously uninvited me to her birthday dinner this week by email (apparently there are other people named Lauren in this world). Heartless.
...read moreThis is why we need more women in media
In the last six months or so, Chicago has had its fair share of townhalls and gatherings trying to figure out what the heck is happening with corporate media. What will happen when the newspapers finally fail? Will they? Where did the journalists go? After the first townhall, that I had to miss, another conference [...]
...read moreMore on the misogynist shooting in Pennsylvania
By now, many of you have probably already heard about the Pennsylvania man who entered a fitness center and opened fire, apparently targeting women in the gym. The guy had a blog, which has been taken down, but that apparently detailed his “frustration over his inability to find a girlfriend” — a frustration that, by [...]
...read moreTesting and Early Treatment: HPV & Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource Settings
Over the last several years, Gardasil and the concept of vaccinating against human papillomavirus (HPV) have gotten quite a lot of press here in the United States. But combating HPV and cervical cancer in developing nations is a whole other challenge. More than a quarter of a million women die from cervical cancer every year, [...]
...read moreSacrifice, Parenting, and Feminism
OK – here it is: my first Feministe post. I’m sorry this is rambly – I’m working through these thoughts, myself. I’m happy to clarify. There have been, for a number of years, endless debates about approaches to parenting. When I had Bean, the Sears and Sears’ “Attachment Parenting” was big, and it sounded pretty [...]
...read morePregnant woman ordered by court to be confined in the hospital
Score another one for the folks who think pregnancy makes a woman less deserving of basic rights and liberties: Imagine this — you’re the busy mother of two small kids with another one on the way. This pregnancy has been fraught with complications. During a medical exam, your doctor orders bed rest for the remainder [...]
...read moreReady for Recess: Conference Call on Health Reform
Having this long August congressional recess fills me with dread. Oh, I do enjoy how DC falls into a lazy summer slumber, but while the members of Congress are home, God only knows what kind of mess we can expect them to make of health care reform. They have a lot of time to spread [...]
...read moreA peeve
Okay, so I am gonna begin my second week of blogging here with a huge peeve of mine. Of course, since it is me saying this, and am going to qualify that no one out there in the whole wide world need share the same peeve, but I am writing about it anyway… This thing [...]
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