I’m so utterly shocked
Apparently a new study shows that academics chosen to write op-eds for three major newspapers are overwhelmingly male. The Wall Street Journal was the worst of the bunch, with 97% of their op-eds by academics written by men. The study doesn’t get into the fact that this gender bias isn’t limited to op-eds by academics. [...]
...read moreThe Latest in Stupid Laws You Probably Didn’t Know About: HIV Criminalization
Recently at The Center for HIV Law and Policy, we’ve been helping out with this case, in which a woman is facing jail time for exposing her husband to HIV. The woman being charged faces up to 10 years in prison. Her husband has also gotten a restraining order against her, and she has been [...]
...read morePolice Officer Promoted for Breastfeeding Quake Victims
Apparently some people have protested the promotion of this police officer for her decision to breastfeed nine orphaned victims of the earthquake in China. Holy moly. Nine kids? She deserves a freakin’ medal for the chafing alone. The concern of the protesters, apparently, is that police should not be promoted for “good deeds,” but only [...]
...read moreAnd I thought I hated him after 2000…
Why doesn’t Ralph Nader just go away? According to ABC News: Nader earlier today told the Rocky Mountain News Obama is trying to “talk white”… He also said Obama wants to show he’s not “another politically threatening African-American politician. He wants to appeal to white guilt.” Hey, Ralph Nader. You know who doesn’t have the [...]
...read moreStrategery
I’ve been thinking for a long time about what would be most effective in helping us make progressive change. There are probably a lot of answers to that question, but lately what keeps coming up for me is this: we need to start getting strategic. No, I don’t mean strategic like Linda “won’t somebody think of the [...]
...read moreWhat about the menz gets religion
I came across an article in the Boston Globe today decrying the “gender problem” that has emerged in liberal Judaism. What’s the emergency? There are more women than men entering leadership positions. “After bar mitzvah, the boys just drop out,” said Sylvia Barack Fishman, a professor of contemporary Jewish life at Brandeis University and the coauthor [...]
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Please allow me to introduce myself.
Hi everyone! My name is Ashley, and I’ll be guest blogging here for a coupla weeks. Thanks very much to the Feministers for the invite. I’m a blogger with Change Happens, the blog of Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER), an organization that I co-founded. I also sit on SAFER’s board. I’m currently in the [...]
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