NPR Backs Out of Interview with Abortion Provider
In response to the WaPo article I wrote about this November, NPR’s Talk of the Nation got in touch with my charity of choice, Medical Students for Choice, to interview a doctor who is part of MS4C and did opt to perform abortions unlike the student profiled in WaPo. Apparently the interview with Dr. Rachel [...]
...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 [...]
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Requiring Gardasil for U.S. Immigrants
Well this is effed up. The federal government is considering making Gardasil vaccination, made by Merk pharmaceuticals, mandatory for female immigrants applying for citizenship. These shots, which vaccinate against certain types of HPV related to potential development of cervical cancer, are not mandatory for U.S. citizens. I am all for making Gardasil more accessible and [...]
...read moreLessons from the Magic Carpet
Is sex work a feminist act? Not in itself, no, IMO. Any job is feminist in the limited sense that women working and supporting ourselves is feminist. But unless a type of work actively promotes women’s equality, I don’t think it’s affirmatively feminist. It’s not antifeminist either, though, unless it involves coercion of unwilling participants [...]
...read moreFeminist Porn: Sex, Consent, and Getting Off
Warning: May not be safe for work…unless you are like me and work at Planned Parenthood. :) The links are definitely not work-safe and may contain adult content to be viewed only by people over the age of 18. Feminism has a love/hate relationship with sex. The “Feminist Sex Wars” rage on and not just [...]
...read moreMedical Harassment, It Just Makes You Feel Better
File this one under creepy, inappropriate, and completely unethical*: In a lawsuit filed yesterday, a Camden County woman accused her orthopedic surgeon of “rubbing a temporary tattoo of a red rose” on her belly while she was under anesthesia. The patient discovered the tattoo below the panty line the next morning, when her husband was [...]
...read moreThe Naked Truth: Security vs. Privacy
NPR covered a story about security in Baghdad’s Green Zone, which centered specifically on one woman’s protest against the type of body scanning used: it doesn’t see hair or clothing, but sees the body, (I’m assuming metal) jewelry, and any prospective weapons. The body is rendered essentially naked (pictured here; picture from NPR). Farah al-Jaberi’s [...]
...read moreWords mean things, part 2
I read something today that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up (emphasis mine): In the rest of the interview, she basically suggests that about 60% of the evangelical community is politically conservative and won’t ever vote for a Democrat. But the other 40% will, and those 40% are worth trying [...]
...read moreWhat will anti-choice groups do now?
Sara Robinson has a thought-provoking post up at The Group News Blog about the shift from surgical to medical abortions, and how anti-choice activists/terrorists are likely to respond. Read the whole thing, but here are some excerpts:
...read moreWhat trans means to me
Well, it seems like we’re in need of another Trans 101 post. Feministe has had them before but still, every time a contentious post is made about trans issues (like Jill’s recent post) the same basic issues are brought up: why are people trans? How do we approach trans stuff as feminists? What does this [...]
...read more“That thrilling conquest”
Lauredhel examines the five reasons why YOU should get a bionic hymen.
...read moreWhen is female genital mutilation just peachy?
When it’s done by an American mother to stop her daughter from having sex: NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A woman who had her 13-year-old daughter’s genitalia pierced to make it uncomfortable for her to have sex was acquitted of aggravated child abuse on Thursday. The girl, now 16, had testified that her mother asked a [...]
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