Take Action Today To End Sexual Violence in Conflict
This is a guest post by Jaclyn Friedman.
Today is the international day of action against sexual violence in conflict. And it only take a few minutes to urge your elected officials, wherever you are, to make ending sexual violence in conflict a top national priority.
Things I Have Never Done That I Would Like To Do Before the World Ends
So, the bad news is that we’re all going to die. The good news is that we know when we’re going to die, so we can blow our life savings this week to do all the things we’ve always wanted to do. Unfortunately, my life savings is somewhere in the low four figures (and my [...]
...read moreSupporting Abortion Rights Throughout the UK
This is a guest post by Hannah. Hannah is a writer and activist in sunny London town. She blogs about gender, disability, and whatever else is sticking in her teeth, over at give the feminist a cigarette. Being a UK lady-blogger and reading predominantly US blogs, when reading about abortion in the States, you succumb [...]
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Mitch Daniels Defunds Planned Parenthood of Indiana, and Why You Should Care
This is a guest post by Lauren Bruce, life-long Indiana resident, founder of and former resident blogger at Feministe. Last week, Jill reported that the state of Indiana might cut funding to Planned Parenthood as well as enacting some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. Yesterday that bill was signed into law, [...]
...read moreRally for Women and Families in New York
New York City is in a budget crisis, and cuts need to be made. But the proposed New York City budget cuts large chunks of aid to low-income families and children: We hope Mayor Michael Bloomberg was listening. At present, the city subsidizes child care for 98,000 children. His new budget would end that support [...]
...read moreHappy May Day!
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” -Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Hellraiser. Here in the U.S. Labor Day is a muted affair celebrated at the end of the summer. It’s mostly lost its meaning to millions of people as anything other than the time at which kids go back to school [...]
...read moreI know I can fight rape culture by ….
On Monday evening, for the first time, I got to attend a meeting for the awesome new Chicago coalition: Sexuality Health Education to End Rape (SHEER). It’s all about a sex-positive approach to rape prevention, and the folks there were great. I especially liked the exercise we did at the end of the meeting: we [...]
...read moreReminder: Bowling for abortion access this Sunday
Come! Bowl! Join the Feministe team! If you do want to join our team — and you should! — sign up on our team page. If you can’t bowl, please consider donating.
...read moreGo to Walgreen’s and demand a pap smear.
Oh wow this idea is brilliant: FLASH MOB ALERT!!! FOX & Friends thinks we don’t need Planned Parenthood because women can just get their breast exams and pap smears at Walgreens (which is not true). Let’s prove them wrong by demanding these health services at Walgreens across the country and seeing what happens. Here’s what [...]
...read moreGrassroots organizing for feminism, S&M, HIV, and everything else
I wrote this for Bitch Magazine’s Feminist Coming-Out Day Blog Carnival; the goal is to talk about feminist “click” moments. Earlier this month, my sex-positive documentary film series screened “Jane: An Abortion Service”. The film tells the extraordinary story of “Jane”, an underground network of women in Chicago who provided thousands of safe abortions in [...]
...read moreBowling for Abortion Access (Again)!
People, it’s time to get your bowl-on! OR, for those of you not in the NYC Metro area, it’s time to get your fundraising-on! Yep, for the second year in a row, Feministe & friends are participating as The Barrier Method in the National Network of Abortion Funds’ bowl-a-thon. NNAF is raising money for grassroots [...]
...read moreFrances Fox Piven Has a Posse
I’m enough of an Internet Personality that I’ve had some hate-tweeters and hate-bloggers in my time. Not a lot, but a few. But I’ve never gotten as many straight-up nasty responses as when I tossed off a tweet Friday night that “Frances Fox Piven is tougher than you. Fact.” See, Glenn Beck has it in [...]
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