Newsy reads for today
The Times: BBC bows to age rage and brings back mature women. Three women over fifty, Fiona Armstrong, 53, Julia Somerville, 62 and Zeinab Badawi, 50, have been hired as presenters on the BBC News Channel. This is a pleasant change in a world in which older women mysteriously disappear from news programs, when women [...]
...read moreDepartment of Housing and Urban Development Announces Protections for LGBT Community
Earlier this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced plans to ensure that people eligible for their programs will not be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. From the press release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced a series of proposals [...]
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Six Women Murdered, Three Still Missing, and Nobody Seems to Notice
There is quite seemingly a serial killer loose in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. And if there’s not, there certainly still is a murderous epidemic. Nine women have disappeared since 2005, and six bodies have so far been found. Since 2005, nine women who lived at the edges of the poor community in this small North [...]
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Aging Is (Not) Unnatural
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross-posted to Body Impolitic. All photographs by Laurie Toby Edison. Some photos below may not be okay for office viewing. After our introductory post here last week, Daisy Deadhead asked if we wrote about age as a body image issue, since we hadn’t happened to mention it in that post. Great [...]
...read moreShocking: teens know sex feels good
Via Tracy Clark-Flory’s excellent takedown of yet more conservative fear-mongering, news of a sex education pamphlet published by the National Health Service of the United Kingdom titled “Pleasure.” The word doesn’t quite inspire hives for me, but for some, it sure seems to: conservatives are calling it “deplorable” and — wait for it — “nothing [...]
...read moreIn nursing homes, black residents receiving worse care than white residents
The Chicago Reporter did an investigation revealing poorer ratings for majority-black homes in Illinois than majority-white homes: An investigation by The Chicago Reporter found that Illinois is arguably the worst state in the nation for Black senior citizens seeking quality nursing home care. There is just one home in Illinois rated “excellent” by the federal [...]
...read morePalin’s anti-choice legacy
Via Feministing, a post by Clara Jeffery of Mother Jones tells us that one of Palin’s last acts in office was to accelerate a parental notice and consent law for women under 18 who are seeking abortion. We see this shit all the time: my sisters’ rights to our own bodies are routinely taken away [...]
...read moreWhat the DOE doesn’t want you reading
As I mentioned in my introductory post, I will be a senior at a public high school in NYC this fall. (As much as I’d like to forget all about school during these fleeting summer months, it still seems to be on my mind.) As far as public schools go, mine is pretty well furnished. [...]
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Do cougars have smarter kids?
NYMag says yes, in a genius piece of jumping to psuedo-scientific conclusions. Really, read it. If only most science writing were as honest. Not quite as hilarious is the fact that a former, younger boyfriend sent me the article, with the joking implication that I am a cougar. Dude, I’m 25.
...read moreCFS: The Body as a Site of Discrimination
I saw this call for submissions, and it looks like a pretty interesting project. I thought some of our readers might be interestd in submitting, since I know you all are an insightful and talented bunch: Call for submissions: The Body as a Site of Discrimination – A Multidisciplinary, Multimedia Online Journal The Body [...]
...read moreCaturday Kitteh War!!!1!
Sad, but true: I detect a bit of ageism in the favoritism of Leopold and Omar/Percival as the newest, sparkliest Feministe kittehs. Is there no room for kittehs over the age of four on this blog? Take Doug. At the spry age of four, Douglas is an active kitteh with an excellent motor: And five-year-old [...]
...read moreHealthy Transitions for Adolescent Girls: working session at the CGI
Yesterday I watched the live video feed of a Global Health working session at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. (The press can’t attend the actual working sessions, so we had to sit and watch from the press room.) A bit of background – at the CGI Annual Meetings, government, corporate, and NGO leaders get [...]
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