Recently, POPLINE, which is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is both the “world’s largest reproductive health database,”and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), began to block searches using the word “abortion.” Such overt interference of politics and anti-intellectualism into research projects, databases, information dissemination is especially [...]
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I nearly titled this post: “A Slight Digression,” but then I realized: that’s silly, it really isn’t one. This blog, after all, is an exercise in activism through writing. I was asked to write an opinion piece for the Columbia Daily Spectator recently on the state of print activism as part of a three-part series [...]
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I plan to repost the below every couple of weeks to remind New Yorkers to CONTACT your LEGISLATORS to show your support for RHPPA.
There is one easy way to demonstrate your support for the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHPPA) and that is by writing to your assembly member and state senator.
As mentioned below, [...]
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Feminist Generations/Feminist Locations: The Continuing Vitality of Feminist Thought and Action
Here it is finally, a recap of a spectacular panel, held at the New School, March 27, 2008, with Deborah Siegel, Linda Abad, Meredith Tax, Ann Snitow, Cleopatra LaMothe, and Erica Reade.
A meeting of the feminist minds across generations came together at the New School [...]
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Posted in Activism, Feminism on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a reminder to go to this tonight! It should be a great cross-generational discussion on the state of feminism– a much needed conversation! And for those who can’t make it, I’ll have a recap later tonight or tomorrow.
CELEBRATE WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008
66 WEST 12TH ST., ROOM 407
6:30-8 PM
FEMINIST GENERATIONS/
FEMINIST LOCATIONS:
THE CONTINUING [...]
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In honor of Back Up Your Birth Control Day, I wanted to do a quick post on Emergency Contraception: the myths, the facts.
The Myth: “Abortion Pill”: Anti-Choice groups would have you believe that Emergency Contraception IS an abortion. It is not:
1. The woman is not pregnant: Medical authorities agree that it takes a few days [...]
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Posted in Activism, Feminism on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
This promises to be an exciting panel and hopefully will spark some cross-generational dialogue. Many women’s caucuses and gender workshops are facing the same question: Ok, women, what now? I think it’s important to remember that the work ain’t done, so don’t kick your feet up just yet. Hopefully we can start formulating some answers [...]
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As we go into the Easter weekend (and Happy Purim as well!), I (as someone raised Catholic) will attend a Catholic mass with my family tomorrow. I will be preached to by a priest with whom I have fundamental disagreements about some essentials on how people should live their lives, which will make me think [...]
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Notes from a (not so underground) Panel: New York’s Abortion Law: Are We Really Protected?
March 13, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m, Judson Memorial Church
Featured Speakers:
Richard F. Daines, M.D., New York State Health Commissioner [...]
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Yes, yes, what a goddamn cheesy title, bunch of phoneys.
BUT there is one easy way to demonstrate your support for the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHPPA) and that is by writing to your assembly member and state senator.
As mentioned below, the anti-choice movement has been bombarding our assembly members with false information and [...]
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