Trailblazing Women
Harvard researchers have discovered that voters, men in particular, feel prejudiced against women in power — ORLY? — but that prejudice is reduced with greater exposure to powerful women. In the study, the first women in powerful positions in a small village were given performance evaluations “that are lower than those of her men counterparts [...]
...read moreXenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in All Sorts of Places
Golf is not something that is usually on my radar screen (unless I’m getting worked up about how golf courses buy water rights to maintain their unsustainable lushness in draught-affected areas or about how the Bush administration claims to have increased the amount of wetlands in the U.S. by counting golf courses as wetlands), but [...]
...read moreWoman With Muscular Dystrophy Had to Crawl Off Plane
This is outrageous and angered me to my very core: On July 20th, Julianna’s (delayed) Delta flight landed in Atlanta at 7:30pm, with a connecting flight scheduled for 8:05pm. Julianna, who has muscular dystrophy, missed the connecting flight because nobody came with a wheelchair until 8:05—the same time the connecting flight took off. To make [...]
...read moreQuick hit: No fucking way
Today’s edition of “When Orange County sees blizzards” is brought to you by… Here’s Robert Waldman: One politically unfeasible approach to this would be to assign people randomly to HMO’s and pay the HMO’s based on their health but have the HMO’s pay for their health care. Then the HMO decides incentives. You have to [...]
...read moreBush Administration Promotes Discriminatory Practices Related To Birth Control
From the New York Times: The Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control. [...] The proposal, which circulated in the department on Monday, says the [...]
...read moreSpace: The Funnest Frontier!
So, hey, Phoenix Mars Lander, anyone? Awesome, right? It landed on Mars! Well, I think it’s awesome. For those of you who don’t spend your typical Saturday night watching NASA TV, the lander is on one of Mars’ polar regions, looking for ice. And by gum, it found some, my friends: This picture is too [...]
...read moreThe Elephant in the Feminist Classroom
There are plenty of elephants in feminist classrooms, as we’re all aware. As a woman of color, there have been times when I was one of those elephants. White, middle-class feminism’s overlooking of race, class, queer identities, ability…this leads to a classroom full of elephants that many students and instructors are unable to see or [...]
...read moreEsmin Green
If this story doesn’t disgust you, I don’t know what will: It was a nightmare captured on surveillance video. A woman who had waited nearly 24 hours to be seen in a Brooklyn public hospital collapsed, fell face-down on the floor, convulsed and for nearly an hour — while several hospital staff members looked at [...]
...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 moreFighting Ableist Language
I often use words like “crazy,” “insane,” and “nutbag” to describe people whose views I think I bizarre, illogical or bigoted. But as Tekanji points out, words mean things. And while words like “crazy” are pretty steeped in my vocabulary, it really isn’t all that hard to make an effort to purge them. Consider this [...]
...read moreWhy this queer isn’t celebrating
I’ll admit it: I couldn’t help but get a bit happy when I heard that California was legalizing same-sex marriage. And today, when I heard about the first couples in line to enjoy their new rights, couples like Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin who got married again after their 2004 marriage was declared invalid, my [...]
...read moreGovernor Paterson Orders State Agencies to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage
UPDATE: If you live in NY, please call the governor’s office TODAY and let them know that you support Paterson’s directive. Call 1-518-474-8390 and say “I support the Governor’s directive on marriage equality,” then give them your 5 digit zip code. I did it just this moment, and it really is that easy. The opposition [...]
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