March 2012
13 posts
Things...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Hello, all.
I feel some disclosure is needed. A couple of weeks ago I was hired on by the pro-choice website RH Reality Check to do some social media for them, including working on their Tumblr site (to be clear, while I do tweet and Tumble and post on their FB, I am not at all the only person doing so - we are a team). My job is specifically to get people to...
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Step up to your power
giddybombs:
“Slam is a microcosm of the real world. Women are misogynists and racist as much as men. To expect an operation, or art form, borne out of first world privilege to look like anything more than its parents is a culturally genetic impossibility. The crux of the contention seems to hinge on the privileging of men’s experience over women. So let me say this, and hopefully your...
This is DAY 43 of TEXAS HAVING MANDATORY...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
While Texas is only state currently forcing people to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, AND VIRGINIA all have forced ultrasounds before an abortion.
Oklahoma and North Carolina have passed similar laws to the one in Texas but they are not being enforced due to pending court decisions.
Guttmacher’s updated...
“Women have historically resorted to any means necessary. Women will do this...”
– The Alienable Rights of Women (via iamdrtiller)
The ways of talking about the “war on women” that... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
This is a piece at Feministing by the amazing and brilliant Jos Truitt.
If you follow this blog, 1) Thank you. 2) You know that inclusivity in the reproductive rights movement is important to me. I try to use inclusive language so that people who are affected by anti-choice legislation/tactics but aren’t cis women are included in the conversation, too. This isn’t...
This is DAY 42 (SIX WEEKS) of TEXAS HAVING...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
While Texas is only state currently forcing people to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, AND VIRGINIA all have forced ultrasounds before an abortion.
Oklahoma and North Carolina have passed similar laws to the one in Texas but they are not being enforced due to pending court decisions.
Guttmacher’s updated...
Arizona Senate passes a bill allowing docs to hide... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
maehemsez:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
jessicavalenti:
To borrow a gif from Ann Friedman’s epic piece today…
h/t @scATX
This is NOT the moment where we make statements like, “Oh, that’s just Arizona. Why don’t people move? What more do you expect? Oh well. *shrugs*.” Because you know who that helps? NO ONE. And you know what that make Arizonans who...
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Arizona Senate passes a bill allowing docs to hide... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
jessicavalenti:
To borrow a gif from Ann Friedman’s epic piece today…
h/t @scATX
This is NOT the moment where we make statements like, “Oh, that’s just Arizona. Why don’t people move? What more do you expect? Oh well. *shrugs*.” Because you know who that helps? NO ONE. And you know what that make Arizonans who need/want access to abortion care feel like?...
