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The House is voting tomorrow on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The anti-VAWA Republicans are introducing their own version of the bill, which removes protections for people in same-sex relationships and weakens provisions to allow courts on Native lands to prosecute non-Native Americans who commit violence on tribal lands. If the Republican version fails — and I hope it will — then the House will take up the more comprehensive version of the bill already passed in the Senate. The fact that VAWA remains controversial, and particularly that Republicans would want to make prosecutions more difficult on tribal lands and strip protections from people who suffer intimate partner violence from a member of the same sex, is stunning, though not surprising. There are 22 senators opposing VAWA, including Republican It Boy and Poland Springs spokesman Marco Rubio. The Ms Foundation for Women has brought a little levity (along with some eduction) to the issue with this parody video, which I am helping them disseminate, featuring the queen of the revenge tune, Ms. [fake] Taylor Swift:
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The Matinee Cure: A 1st World Solution to Heartbreak
(I am working on a bigger piece for Feministe, but thought I would post a few of my favorites from my “other” kind of writing in the mean time, which is to warn you that these are creative stories about dating, parenting, and other Los Angeles adventures.) [Trigger Warning: Sexual Content] My child’s classmates regularly [...]
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Is over at The Honest Toddler. The post about animals is spot-on.
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Hi There! For those who don’t know me already, I’m Anna–or perhaps my nom du tweet, @agoodcuppa. I am a writer (no way, the guest blogger is a writer!), a social justice activist and rabbel rouser, and an unapologetic feminist with a bleeding heart. I hail from the Bay Area in California. My mother is [...]
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Go. Learn. Never have bad sex again. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
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So perfect, every day:
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It’s true — being a perfect feminist is a full-time job. That in itself is EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC.
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Single PUAs are on the prowl, and they would like you to know that they like your headband. Bitch.
...read moreSorry I haven’t been blogging today.
I’ve been carrying on a torrid text-message love affair with this guy. Are any of YOU Jill from Miami? Your boyfriend misses you.
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