Time to invest in tampons and Chardonnay.
image via Tampon Crafts. Women will recover faster from the recession than men, which leads economists to suggest investing in female-centered companies like Ann Taylor and Lululemon. Women will rebound from the U.S. recession faster than men because females didn’t lose as many jobs as men did during the recession, the report said. Some of [...]
...read moreSwedish feminists start a Twitter campaign to talk about sexual assault
This is awesome. Sometimes it’s difficult, even impossible, to talk about negative sexual experiences. About the times when our boundaries were violated, but we didn’t say anything. About times when we violated others without realizing it. About times when we violated ourselves. Initiating an honest conversation about sex and consent is scary. Reactions can be [...]
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Monday Reads
A few things to get your week started right: 150 Years of Vassar: A photo spread. Thanks, Lauren, for the link. I know a lot of us are WikiLeaks-ed out, but there are two more pieces worth checking out: This one from the New Statesman that discusses the liberal values that are in conflict in [...]
...read moreColombia ensures free access to contraceptives
Way to go. The Colombian Government recently passed a law which guarantees access to free contraceptives, including surgical procedures such as vasectomy and tubal ligation. The law was proposed several years ago, but received the push into legislation from new President Juan Manuel Santos. Under the constitution, Colombian citizens have access to universal health care [...]
...read moreIn case you didn’t hear the good news yet…
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which is the American law barring openly gay men and women from serving in the military, was repealed by the Senate this weekend. Once Obama signs the bill, the military will no longer be able to discriminate against gays and lesbians. It’s ridiculous that it took this long, but good news [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
You know what to do.
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Whore Stigma Makes No Sense
This is a guest post by Clarisse Thorn, who blogs at Pro-Sex Outreach, Open-Minded Feminism. (The above image is a slide from a presentation by Marlise Richter, a researcher at the AIDS Law Project, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. It is described at the bottom of this post.) Stigma is [...]
...read moreIt’s not just violent clients who abuse sex workers
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. There are 21 events happening in the U.S. alone; more are listed on the site. Too many sex workers are killed, raped, assaulted and abused because, to paraphrase Oregon serial killer Gary Ridgeway, they’re easy targets. Their work is often done clandestinely, and they typically [...]
...read moreAnd… she’s Muslim
So this article by Nick Kristof isn’t actually as bad as it could be. He honors Dr. Hawa Abdi, who is a pretty amazing woman. He points out that it’s totally fucked up that there are going to be Congressional hearings on American Muslims, led by the Republican party (although Kristof’s contention that it’s “the [...]
...read moreHospital saves woman’s life; is told by Catholic leadership not to do it again.
File under “You know you’re an asshole when…”: A Catholic hospital saved the life of a young mother of four. The woman was pregnant and suffered from life-threatening pulmonary hypertension, which caused her heart to begin to fail. Doctors determined that she would almost definitely die if she did not end the pregnancy immediately, and [...]
...read moreMan-Repelling
Maybe I will have something more intelligent to say about this later, but: I appreciate women who are able to have a sense of humor about fashion, and who recognize that for a lot of us, clothing is wearable art and not just a way of making ourselves look attractive (or covering our butts). Maybe [...]
...read moreNYPD Fakes Statistics, Downgrades Rape Charges
Anyone who’s seen The Wire knows the drill here: There’s political pressure to have lower crime rates, and so crimes are downgraded and not fully pursued. Which, in New York, has let serial rapists go free. An investigative report by the Village Voice uncovered nothing short of a scandal. A series of articles exposed the [...]
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