I'm not sure about trigger warnings, but the article discusses abortion (with a dash of anti-choice rhetoric), reproductive coercion, disability & aborting due to birth defects, custody laws / adoption, and surrogacy / pregnancy. Please let me know if there is anything else I should include here (and Mods - let me know if you'd like this edited ( Read more... )

I will be angry.

I will be angry because I am not allowed rights to my own body.

I will be angry because I am not acknowledged even in issues that concern me intimately.

I will be angry because I am jailed for being a victim and trying to bring my attacker to justice.

I will be angry because I am unworthy of protection.

I will be angry because I am not ( Read more... )

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 For those that do not keep up with the world of comics, DC is rebooting their universe and among the changes being made is Barbara Gordon aka Oracle getting out of her wheelchair and becoming able-bodied to fight as Batgirl again. The announcements are here and here.

ORACLE Is Stronger Than BATGIRL Will Ever Be
By Jill Pantozzi

Who’s your symbol for ( Read more... )

In 1996, the world was a very different place. Mel Gibson--pre-Passion, pre-anti-Semitic, misogynistic drunken tirades--was still a bankable Hollywood movie star. Rene Russo had yet to disappear off the face of the planet, and it was at this time that these two starred together in a movie called Ransom.

The plot of Ransom is simple (spoilers ( Read more... )

Inside the bullied brain
The alarming neuroscience of taunting


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Wall Street Journal Misrepresented Chua's Book on "Asian Parenting"

Follow-up to this post, from a review in the SF Chronicle, via the mothership:

The more I re-read the Wall Street Journal article, the more I felt like I wasn't getting the whole story. The "excerpt" made the book seem like a harsh diatribe against American parenting standards and ( Read more... )

Call for easing of restrictions on test-tube babies in Germany

Dec 21, 2010, 13:53 GMT

Berlin - A cross-party group of parliamentarians called Tuesday for a relaxation of Germany's strict laws on test-tube babies - paving the way for a conscience vote on the issue next year.

Currently Germany does not allow doctors to screen embryo ( Read more... )

I would like you to take a moment to imagine the look on my face when I realised that the BBC interviewer in the following clip (transcript below) actually asked Jody McIntyre, a 20 year old man who uses a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy, whether or not the fact that Jody is a “revolutionary” is reason enough for the police to have assaulted him ( Read more... )

Katie Price has called in her lawyers after comedian Frankie Boyle made a vile sexual slur against disabled son Harvey on his Channel 4 show Tramadol Nights.
Former Mock The Week star Boyle, 38, said on the show, which is watched by one million viewers : 'Jordan and Peter Andre are still fighting each other over custody of Harvey - eventually one ( Read more... )