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Prop 8 Decision Day: California Upholds Discrimination
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The California Supreme Court upheld the discriminatory Prop osition 8 and has yet again told its same sex citizens that they are not worthy of equal protection under the law. While the 18,000 same sex marriages that were performed in the short amount of time that the state recognized gay marriage in 2008 will be ... More About: Discrimination , Decision
Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court
2009-06-02 22:13:00 I apologize for not getting this up yesterday, but I sleep sometimes. Yesterday morning Obama announced his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court to replace Justice Souter. Sotomayor would become the second woman on the court, only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court, and the first Hispanic justice to serve on ...
Oral Sex and Reciprocity
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Sex, Sex, Sex and more Sex. We are so obsessed with sex that we often attach it to things that it has no relation to and when it comes to the actual conversations about intercourse, we use ridiculous euphemisms to highlight our supposed discomfort. Speaking directly is something that is often discouraged in ... More About: Oral , Oral Sex
The GOP?s Campaign Against Sonia Sotomayor
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Sonia Sotomayor was originally nominated to federal court by George Herbert Bush; a fact that Obama mentioned in his speech to nominate Sotomayor for the US Supreme Court and a fact that the entire GOP and its supporters have conveniently ignored for the sake of having something else to bitch and complain about. The Guardian’s Scott ... More About: Campaign , Sonia
HIV Still Seen as the ?Gay Man Disease?
2009-06-02 22:13:00 I thought that the whole ‘only gay men have HIV’ hysteria had passed in the late 1980’s; that someone had educated the obviously sex-education-sheltered population at some point letting them know that sexually transmitted diseases and infections affect well, sexually active people… Male, female, of all sexual orientations. However, I recently learned that in ... More About: Disease
Video Montage of the Meet in the Middle 4 Equality Rally in Fresno, CA
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The Meet in the Middle 4 Equality rally in Fresno , CA took place on Saturday, May 30, the first Saturday after the California Supreme Court upheld discrimination in the state by upholding Prop 8, eliminating the fundamental civil right to marry for thousands of same sex couples in the state. Here is a video montage of ... More About: Video , Rally
Abortion Provider Dr. George Tiller Assassinated
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Dr. George Tiller, a man who dedicated his life to women’s rights and reproductive freedoms, was murdered in the foyer of his church while handing out the church bulletin. Dr. Tiller had become subject to much scrutiny from anti-choicers not only in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas, but across the country due to the ... More About: Abortion , Provider , Assassinated
Born Into Brothels
2009-06-02 22:13:00 I watched the 2004 Academy Award winning documentary Born Into Brothels last night. Yes, I know I’m about five years late with this, but thanks to Netflix I have been watching a ton of movies I should have seen a long time ago–As well as some movies I wish I never came ...
Happy Birthday Harvey Milk!
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Today would have been Harvey Milk ’s 79th birthday. It also would have been an official day of significance in the state of California, had Governor Schwarzenegger not vetoed legislation to declare every May 22 as officially Harvey Milk Day. Last year, the Governor stated that Harvey Milk was merely a local hero; not ... More About: Happy , Birthday , Happy Birthday
Judy Blume + Planned Parenthood = Widespread Anti-Choice Hysteria
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Judy Blume wrote a Mother’s Day letter for Planned Parenthood soliciting donations for the organization. For Judy Blume and Planned Parenthood to team up seems only natural to me, with Judy Blume being a household name for girls and women spanning several decades and in some cases, was the only introduction to puberty for ... More About: Choice , Hysteria , Anti
Celebrating Unconventional Families
2009-06-02 22:13:00 If you have read this website long enough or happen to talk to me on a personal level, you will know that Mother’s Day is not a very good day for me. In fact, it is one of the most loathed days of the year for me right up there with spending Christmas surrounded ... More About: Families
New Look?Menstrual Poetry Version One Thousand
2009-06-02 22:13:00 EDIT: The look of Menstrual Poetry has changed yet again. It’s the same Holly-created theme that I have had up for ages, just revamped quite a bit. Okay, while it may not actually be version one thousand, I’m pretty sure it’s up there in the twenties or maybe even thirties. Here is a ... More About: Thousand , Version
Sex(ist) Columns Turn a Woman?s Intelligence into Blathering Pieces on the
2009-06-02 22:13:00 DailyMail has published two separate articles in the past two days on one topic–Intelligent women are better in the bedroom. Both articles were written by different people, mentioning the same study conducted by Professor Tim Spector at King’s College in London, which leads me to think that they couldn’t merge the two stories that ... More About: Intelligence , Woman , Columns , Turn , Pieces
When Will We Say Goodbye to Don?t Ask Don?t Tell?
2009-06-02 22:13:00 President Obama has voiced his disapproval of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the federal law that does not allow lesbian and gay people to serve openly in the military, many times and he has also voiced his position on ending the law. However, qualified and valued people continue to be discharged from the military and ... More About: Goodbye
Missouri State Senate Passes Additional, Traumatizing Anti-Choice Legislati
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Just three days ago, the Missouri state Senate passed a bill in a 25 to 7 vote to expand restrictions currently on access to abortion in the state. The additional restrictions would include requiring women who are seeking an abortion to be informed of certain information–in person–24 hours prior to the abortion procedure. The “certain ... More About: State , Choice , Anti
Withdrawal a Viable Method of Contraception?
2009-06-02 22:13:00 According to the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth regarding methods of contraception used by sexually experienced women, 90% have used condoms in their sexual past and present and 82% have used in the pill. These statistics are not necessarily news, albeit the percentage of women who have used the birth control pill as ... More About: Contraception , Withdrawal , Method
Newest from National Organization for Marriage: Hide the Children Edition
2009-06-02 22:13:00 This is a new ad from National Organization for Marriage and uber extremist group CornerStone Policy Research that is currently running in New Hampshire. But this time, instead of raining gays, NOM is now exploiting children to try to get the word out about how “marriage needs to be protected” because it’s just oh ... More About: Children , Edition
Ellen DeGeneres: Be True to Yourself & Everything Will Be Fine
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Ellen DeGeneres gave an incredibly passionate and inspirational commencement speech at Tulane University last week that included some of her own life experience (wanting to be famous, becoming famous, coming out, losing fame, and becoming famous again) and a great deal of humor as only Ellen could pull off effectively. But with all joking ... More About: Ellen Degeneres , True , Ellen , Fine
The New & Improved Searching for Angela Shelton DVD Now Available!
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The new version of the documentary that has been inspiring, empowering, and changing the lives of survivors, friends, and allies for the past five years, Searching for Angela Shelton , is now available for pre-order. The new version of the DVD includes super fancy graphics, never before seen footage, closed captioning, Spanish subtitles, and a photo album. ...
Third Grader Organizes Gay Marriage Rally
2009-06-02 22:13:00 This has me smiling. A lot. As part of an independent class project, Ethan McNamee organized a same sex marriage rally in Colorado. His incredibly powerful speech is below. Now folks, this is what happens when you raise your children to think for themselves and to be a good human. I would ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage , Rally
New Theme
2008-06-05 00:00:00 Menstrual Poetry has a new theme up! I was pretty sick of looking at all of the white and the very boring theme that was up before, so a friend of mine who runs Take Me Nowhere (that I also write for weekly–When I can remember) made this new, happy theme that has a very small ... More About: Theme
The Emma Goldman Clinic Wants to Hear About Your Experience
2008-06-05 00:00:00 I received an email a few days ago from the Medicaid Organizer for The Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City, IA. The clinic is starting an abortion stories project detailing the personal experiences of women who experienced financial setbacks or barriers any time in the process of seeking an abortion in Iowa. The clinic is ... More About: Experience , Hear
Feminism at its Finest: May 2008
2008-06-05 00:00:00 The Feminism at its Finest blog carnival is a day late, so we’re just going to pretend that it’s still May; just for today! Of course, thanks to everyone who submitted their posts and to submit your posts for the June edition, which will be up on June 30, just go here. I would also ... More About: 2008
The Wii Fit: Showing Your Boyfriend?s True Colors
2008-06-05 00:00:00 The Wii Fit can certainly help many people who otherwise would never get off the couch and put their real video game controllers down, but it can also show you how big of an asshole your boyfriend is. This guy put a video up of his girlfriend in nothing but an over-sized T-shirt and ... More About: Boyfriend , Colors , True
It is NOT Okay to Harass Women?And Here?s Why
2008-05-28 00:00:00 Many women are all too familiar with being harassed on the street. For some reason, when men get together they exude so much testosterone that they tend to believe that not only is the world their personal playground, but the women living in the world are also purely placed there for their amusement and ... More About: Women
The Message is Simple
2008-05-28 00:00:00 Power to the people. Give peace a chance. Mike Gravel is a politician who has always known where he stands when it comes to the issues affecting America. He is a politician who has always spoken out and stood up for his beliefs and the hopes of millions of Americans. He is ... More About: Message , Simple , The Message
Sexism Sells?Unfortunately
2008-05-28 00:00:00 On May 23, The Women’s Media Center and Media Matters launched the video below as well as an online petition to tell the media to stop treating women like a joke. All of the ridiculous, sexist comments made by the mainstream media hold absolutely no weight in the newscasts and the reporters who let such disgusting ... More About: Sexism
The Uterus Vase
2008-05-26 00:00:00 I saw this vase and immediately thought it was kick ass. After visiting the site it’s offered on, Pure Contemporary, I think it’s even more kick ass, especially with how the description is written: “Although the shape of the female reproductive organ is known by everyone from illustrations in biology or anatomy books, one rarely ...
Guest Blogging at The BoBo Files
2008-05-24 00:00:00 I’m hanging out over at The BoBo Files today and bringing some happy feminism sunshine over to the dreary conservative-geared politiblog. Come join me! Related PostsNo Related Post More About: Blogging , Guest
Welcome America, to the Second Vietnam
More articles from this author:2008-05-24 00:00:00 Coverage on the Iraq war has been constant, however, with recent media hitting about war crimes and the bullshit that this country’s administration is pulling against their own troops is honestly astounding and infuriating me to no end. I have been comparing the war in Iraq to Vietnam for a few years now and not ... More About: America 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
