Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I was listening to This American Life yesterday (I am really ashamed to admit how much that damned show with all those everyday funny/touching stories gets to me– I’ve been at work a few times now wiping away tears). But in any case, I was listening to a program that originally aired in 1998 (#99!) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Just had to note this excellent article by Katha Pollitt over at The Nation chronicling both women’s strides (viable female candidate, powerful Hollywood execs, women in higher ed) and what appears to be a severe cultural backlash (”the Pill kills”?, women can’t sue over discriminatory pay after six months of employment? South Dakota banning abortion, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Urban areas tend to be ahead of the game when addressing issues of reproductive rights and access. On the one hand, this has to do with the fact that liberal, progressive populations have flocked to urban centers in recent decades. As centers of culture, intellectual life, and sexual revolutions, as well as a diversity of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Yet another roadblock put in the way of women seeking abortions. This time from Oklahoma: the legislature overrode the governor’s veto on a new “informed consent” law requiring women seeking abortion to have either an abdominal or vaginal ultrasound. Take a look here for more information.
Again this is taking power out of the hands of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
In a continuing conversation on the state of masculinity and male roles in our society, here’s a great post from the Guardian’s Comment is free… on whether men can be feminists. At a certain point, you have to wonder how much we really want to get caught up in semantics of what is feminist, pro-feminist, [...]
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