The Girl in the Red Beret by Lina Mounzer.
Cocorosie redoes Akon’s “I Wanna Love You.” It’s an incredible juxtaposition – same music, same setting, very different perspectives.
Sex toy recycling program. They even give you a gift certificate when you send in old toys!
Teen girls on Chris Brown’s abuse of Rhianna. People ask why women don’t leave their abusers more often and this is why: they think it’s their fault. And so do many of the people around them.
And why don’t more women report that they’ve been raped? This is why:
But still, the police did not believe the victim. Worse, they didn’t just laugh at her, as many other victims report happening to them. They didn’t ask her if she really deserved it for X reason, or if she had sex with the gunman consensually and then just regretted it later. They didn’t ask her if she really wanted to press charges, because hey, this could ruin this man’s life, you know! All of these are outcomes far more than bad enough, and which still happen far too often, but didn’t happen here.
Instead, they accused her of a false report and put her in jail.
Majikthise has two good posts up on the economic crisis and the bailout.
Where I’d be applying to grad school if I were a physicist.
An eleven year old killed himself because of constant bullying and taunting for being gay. This isn’t an isolated case. Many children kill themselves or are killed by their peers for being queer or being perceived as queer. The schools aren’t dealing with it.
Another school failure: a teenage girl was suspended for taking birth control at school.
A case where justice is very unlikely to be found.
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Abortionclinicdays proposes that a special notice to patients be displayed in places where caregivers are allowed to refuse reproductive care to women if it interferes with their religious rights. It begins”I follow my own religious beliefs ahead of your medical needs. Therefore, I will not support, offer, or approve any of the following checked off below.”
Fears of skin cancer may be leading to vitamin D deficiencies. My grandmother is definitely on to something with her strategy of “everything in moderation.” Though this rule doesn’t seem to apply to chocolate.
Helen Boyd has a link to a leaked Bush administration memo that defines the pill as abortion.
The most damning political attack ad I’ve ever seen. Via The Edge of the American West.
A woman fights off a man who assaults her and is assaulted by bystanders in retribution, via Feministing.
The Pill Kills – a new campaign of the American Life League.
That $600 isn’t going to help our economy and it certainly won’t help people who really need it.
7.2 million families holding sub-prime mortgages, disproportionately lower-income, black and Latino are in danger of losing their little bit of the American Dream.
37 million poor people (the definition of poverty for a family of 4 is an income of less than $20,000) can receive $600 a person and $300 per child if they have an income already. If not, then not.
In a society without justice such as ours, poor people, people with one foot out of poverty, and the working class are experiencing a crisis only guessed at on Wall Street where all the mischief began.
English as an official language has nothing to do with concerns about education and everything to do with racism and xenophobia.
Women do more housework than men in general. What you may not have realized, is that men create a heck of a lot more of it for women to do, via (en)Gender.
the research shows women, of all ages with no children, on average do 10 hours of housework a week before marriage and 17 hours of housework a week after marriage. Men of all ages with no children, on the other hand, do eight hours before marriage and seven hours afterwards.
Live in Flagstaff? Ride a bike? Do this!
My new hero:
Since arriving at Stanford as a professor in 1995, Ms. Koller has led a group of researchers who have reinvented the discipline of artificial intelligence.
Hey, those old generals got paid to lie to you!
My school newspaper recently published an article on the debate surrounding Roe v. Wade. I wrote a letter to the editor in response. It was not published. This confused gem about “liberal politics” did make the cut, though. While I’ve discussed most of the things I bring up in the letter already on this blog, I think it’s a decent summary of a big problem in the abortion debate.
Anti-choice activists claim that they are trying to save lives by fighting to make abortion illegal. In fact, criminalizing abortion does not reduce abortions; it kills women. A study published last October in the Lancet found that abortion rates were not affected by its legality. Some may argue that criminalizing abortion is the right thing to do even if it does not actually affect abortion rates. This stance is inhumane. Almost 70,000 women a year die from unsafe illegal abortions. A year after Nicaragua placed a blanket ban on abortion Human Rights Watch published a report, “Over Their Dead Bodies,” documenting the results of the ban. This report found that women were dying because of the law. Many pregnant women with complications are afraid to seek treatment in case they are accused of attempting to induce an abortion and doctors are not giving abortions to women who will die without one. If anti-choice activists were truly “pro-life,” they would join hands with the pro-choice movement to promote policies that reduce unwanted pregnancy – comprehensive sex education in schools, forcing insurance companies to cover family planning services and providing public funds for this effort, and ensuring easy access to emergency contraception. Unfortunately, most anti-choice activists do not support these actions. Like many religious fundamentalists, they seem far more concerned with controlling women and punishing them for having sex than saving lives.
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While the price of birth control pills on college campuses in US has skyrocketed this year due to Bush’s Deficit Reduction Act, Brazil is looking to prevent unwanted pregnancy by subsidizing the pill. If our politicians really were interested in reducing abortions, they wouldn’t make it so difficult to prevent pregnancy.
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