You could be taken at any time, day or night. You might be at home, at work or traveling on the street. Your captors may be in uniform or civilian clothes. They forcibly take you away, giving no reason, producing no warrant. Your relatives desperately try to find you, going from one police station or army camp to the next. The officials deny ( Read more... )

Today is the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. Never forget.

Ahhhh coffee...sweet elixir of life, make me strong so that I may smite my enemies as their screams echo in my ears.  Or at the very least help me to annoy the dictators and assholes of the world mightily so they will go home and leave people the hell alone.

In other words, go to the AIUSA site and send an email to the military junta in Myanmar ( Read more... )

The U.N. now has a campaign and website dedicated to putting an end to the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. What follows are a few excerpts from a speech by UNIFEM Executive Director, Inés Alberdi:

In adopting Resolution 1820 on women, peace and security in June, the Security Council has recognized that sexual violence as a tactic of ( Read more... )

TELL CONGRESS: DON’T DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD - Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood has just learned that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is expected to attack Planned Parenthood again today. He will offer an amendment to the Appropriations Act this afternoon that would block Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving federal funds from Title X, ( Read more... )

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Today's podcast is a quickie.

It's a brief blurb about the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. I mention it's origins as a brain child of Dr. Annie Sprinkle that the Sex Workers Outreach Project ran with and turned into an international event ( Read more... )

No really, I am. A huge, horrible event occurred in LA this weekend and I was blissfully unaware of the entire thing ( Read more... )

From Amnesty International

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the best hope for justice in SudanThe conflict in Darfur, Sudan, has led to some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable: systematic and widespread murder, rape, abduction and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed. Over 2.5 million civilians have ( Read more... )