A feminist appeal to former Clinton supporters:

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A new law passed in Oklahoma requires doctors to perform a vaginal ultrasound and to describe the fetus in detail to women seeking abortions.

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Background: Joe Arpaio is the sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona (and my pretend arch nemesis), which contains the city of Phoenix. He has a history of unabashed racial profiling, abusing civil rights, and just being a generally disgusting racist, sexist, hell, anti-human, jerk. Here are a few of his "accomplishments":

• Encouraging racial ( Read more... )

I just read this story in the NYTimes.

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In the U.S. October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month. There was a minor, very minor, media campaign, and to be honest I didn't hear anything about it outside of my day job. In fact, the only coverage I read in October of Domestic Violence Awareness month was a Counterspin interview with Lucinda Marshall about her article discussing the ( Read more... )

maclyn shared a post with the community a few days ago urging us all to acknowledge and reflect on the US-centric posts that have proliferated and become standard in this community.  in that same vein, i'm calling on everyone to pause and reflect on their own heterocentric inclinations.  the posts recently, and in general, have been very much focused on ( Read more... )

This was on the front page of the Sunday newspaper; I had rung up about twenty of them for people before I happened to look down and saw the big headline in bold, and nearly broke down in tears:

Rape victim: 'Morning after' pill deniedBy Carla McClain ( Read more... )

As much as we all get a little skeptical of Lifetime programs, something interesting caught my eye. I was watching The '60s when an ad came up for a mini-series called "Human Trafficking;" it's supposed to be a program based on the kidnapping and transportation of young girls to brothels, where they are unwillingly trafficked ( Read more... )

Right, im not usually one for mob-justice...BUT i found this story quite moving. It's centered on a woman being made a scapegoat for murder, after the death of a rapist at the hands of his victims.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1571407,00.html

so apparently the US government spends it's time discussing "A bill to ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child ( Read more... )