Adios, Feministe!
My two weeks of guest posting are up today, a big thanks to Jill and everybody here at the Feministe community for welcoming me. You can find me over at Amplify, where (in my highly biased opinion) we have some of the best young feminist bloggers you’ll find on the internet tubes. I leave you [...]
...read moreTarget Women: Brooke Shields
Sarah Haskins on Mrs. Mom-a-morphosis, who wants to help cure your un-feminine eyelashes, fyi…
...read more“Are you a treasure or a target?”: More sex ed FAIL from Ohio
For some reason or another, Ohio schools seemed to be inundated with some of the worst abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in the entire country. Ohio is the home of Elizabeth’s New Life Center, notable for employing Derek the Abstinence Clown, who comes to middle school classrooms to perform and inform kids that using condoms is like juggling [...]
...read moreSenator Kennedy and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act
Last night, Senator Ted Kennedy passed away at the age of 77, after 47 years of serving his country in the United States Senate. As we currently still face the threat of harrassment and violence at women’s health clinics from the likes of Randall Terry and Operation Rescue, let’s remember the work of Senator Kennedy [...]
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Randall Terry’s pathetic road show
Domestic terrorist Randall Terry, who has warned of “random acts of violence” and violent “reprisals against those deemed guilty” if healthcare reform is passed, is currently on a 10-city freakshow tour of the south. Yesterday, the freakshow went to Louisville, KY, where Terry performed a “skit” with two “actors”. Dressed as a doctor (after stabbing [...]
...read moreTarget Women: Charm School
National treasure Sarah Haskins takes a look at the most horrid reality show this side of “More to Love“.
...read moreMichele Bachmann: radical pro-choice feminist?
Fo realz?!? “That’s why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.“ Umm… Michele? Maybe you should think really [...]
...read moreOne woman takes on King Coal. And wins.
Back in my home state of Kentucky, there is perhaps no greater tragedy than mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR). This is a method of mining where mountains are literally blown up and leveled, with the remaining debris dumped into the valleys. This creates not only horrific wastelands in its wake, but pollutes valley streams and [...]
...read morePlumber Sam joins the Violence Against Pelosi Club
Fresh off having been the butt of a murder “joke” by Glenn Beck (ha ha), Nancy Pelosi today got another veiled threat of violence by an unhinged man. This time, it was the 2008 mascot of the Republican Party, “Joe” the Plumber: For Pelosi to write about us bein’ un-American and disprespectful — I’ll tell [...]
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Greetings and Salutations!
Hello Feministe community! It’s my great honor to be guest posting at this fabulous blog over the next two weeks. I little about myself: I’m a lifelong Kentuckian who got into political blogging 3 years ago. Besides bourbon, horses, and basketball obsession, we have in Kentucky an entire army of social conservative politicians obsessed with [...]
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