September 2011
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As Mississippi Debates Extreme 'Personhood'... →
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A wonderful article on Huffington Post about what’s going on here in Mississippi.
…Hemmins and the No on 26 campaign said they are frustrated with the majority of Democratic politicians in Mississippi for refusing to publicly oppose the amendment.
“There’s been a lot of ‘off the record’ sentiment, but it’s really disappointing to not see state leadership publicly talk about the ...
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Yes on 26 Launches Fake Website →
nowms:
The Jackson Free Press reports:
The campaign working in support of the Personhood Amendment has launched a fake website to attack the Political Action Committee working against the ballot measure that would redefine the word person in the state Constitution. “Yes on 26” is using the site to call out Mississippians for Healthy Families’ registered officers Nsombi Lambright of the ACLU...
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The Facts about Amendment 26 →
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From the Daily Mississippian:
…But on Nov. 8, birth control could become illegal in the state of Mississippi; yet another unintended consequence of Initiative 26. This so-called “Personhood Amendment” will change the legal definition of the word “person” in Article 111 of the state constitution to include “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the ...
July 2011
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What kind of "doctor" is marcus bachmann? →
interesting post:
Over the weekend, Truth Wins Out and The Nation exposed the truth about Michele Bachmann’s husband’s Christian counseling service: It tries to “cure” gay people with harmful, quack-science “ex-gay” therapy…
ARS doubts in his post that Bachmann is even a licensed therapist.But Politico indeed confirms that he is not licensed and that...
June 2011
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Senator Tom Duane's Moving Speech for Marriage... →
If you missed it last night, check out the video of highlights from openly gay Senator Tom Duane’s speech about marriage equality.
“most of all i want to thank my family, and i want to thank louis. you know, he was there when my brother died, my mother and my father. i was there when his brother died, when his mother and father died and i loved his parents. my whole family loves...
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Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause... →
this is a bit concerning because the language “cause emotional distress” is vague, as well as “post on the internet”.
A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to...
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Greg Fultz creates a billboard about his ex's... →
Um, WTF?
fucknogregfultz:
“An American man’s decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights.
The sign on Alamogordo, New Mexico’s main thoroughfare shows 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, “This Would Have Been A Picture Of My...
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Personhood on Trial Today →
“Personhood” is on trial today, as the JFP is reporting:
Jackson Attorneys Robert McDuff and J. Cliff Johnson will stand before the full Mississippi Supreme Court today at 1:30 p.m. and explain why a ballot initiative giving rights to microscopic human eggs amounts to an illegal modification of the state constitution.
The plaintiff attorneys, who are working on behalf of two ...
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Radical new birth control for men is 100%... →
This is an interesting read:
…scientists in India claim to have invented a male contraceptive that’s 100% effective for up to 10 years that can be reversed at any time. The caveat is that you’ve got to get it injected once into each nut. Yowch. The injection is called RISUG, which stands for “reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance.” Let’s just get the uncomfortable bit out of...
May 2011
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The feminists - not so angry... →
Jezebel is reporting on a piece on Gothamist that describes the protest of “the acquittal of the former NYPD officers who were accused of raping a woman inside her East Village apartment in 2008.”
According to Gothamist:
…the protest itself was largely good-natured, if loud, and missing was a palpable sense of anger. Attendees proclaimed to be outraged, but it seemed a proper...
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Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive... →
the title of that ALONE is offensive, and the whole theory behind this is racist and sexist. tell psychology today that this is not the type of thing that belongs on their website or in their magazine!
It is very interesting to note that, even though black women are objectively less physically attractive than other women, black women (and men) subjectively consider themselves to be far more...
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Changing the Public Conversation About Obesity:... →
this is a good read:
“Mainstream media aren’t motivated to talk about how diets contribute to poor health because they depend on advertising dollars from these industries,” said Jean Kilbourne, a longtime media critic and author of the seminal Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. The food and diet industries are also powerful lobbies in Washington, which means...
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Louisiana Republican Wants to Sterilize Poor Women →
i’m pretty speechless on this one.
…If you don’t think that’s bad enough, his ingenious plan includes giving more tax incentives to “college-educated, higher-income people to have more children.” He has already earned the ire of advocacy groups who call his plan blatantly racist, sexist, and immoral. He has argued that more white people than black people are...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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25 Facts about Rape in America →
Prepare to be infuriated! From the Ms. Blog:
9. Percentage of rapes that result in incarceration: 0.35 percent
14. Two of the top five cities in the U.S. with the most “unfounded” (i.e., false or baseless reports, according to police) rapes: New Orleans and Baltimore
15. Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by New Orleans police in 2008: 60 percent
25. Number of people who have...
April 2011
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10 Facts About America's Gays →
10. If all 50 states and the federal government recognized marriage for same-sex couples, the federal budget would benefit by over $1 billion each year.
1. 9 million LGBT people live in the U.S., 3.8 % of the adult population.
check out the full list at the advocate’s website. [via @unityms on twitter]
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How Your Brain May Be Different Than a... →
my first snarky thought to that headline: “you mean other than just having one?” i haven’t posted in forever, i will try to be better about that. i have two internships going on right now, one with planned parenthood and one with a non-profit org dealing with mental health so i’m super busy getting ready to graduate in may!!!! (it only took me 12 years.)
now the article:
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March 2011
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Gay Only Spaces →
this is a great piece:
“Let’s be clear here. The world is a straight space. 99.999999% of the world is a straight space - not only a straight space, but an aggressively straight space, that fiercely resists being anything but straightness. The whole damn world is straight dominated, straight ruled, straight controlled and straight enforced. We are grudgingly allowed to be...
February 2011
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What Abusers and “Pro-Family” Conservatives Have... →
this is absolutely horrifying. Ms magazine blog reports:
Birth control sabotage has been revealed to be a common form of partner abuse… The callers said their partners hid birth control pills or flushed them down the toilet. Some refused to wear condoms or poked holes in them.
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Why Title X is Critical - Cecile Richards →
great article, definitely worth reading the whole thing!!
Some 60 percent of women who receive care in a Title X family-planning health center say it’s their main source of health care — not a supplement but a lifeline. That’s because 85 percent of them live at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level, and two thirds lack health insurance. What do the House...
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Super Bowl Sunday's Dark Side: Big Game Attracts... →
this is so incredibly disgusting.
During the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami Beach, child outreach professionals said they saw a surge in young women working the streets in the week leading up to the big game. Many of the young girls they spoke with told outreach experts that they’d been brought to the area by pimps hoping to profit from the game.
“We saw at least four times as many,...
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Send a message to your rep asking them to oppose... →
You can send a pre-written message to your representative asking them to oppose HR3 through the National Network of Abortion Funds website. The message reads:
Dear Representative: As your constituent, I am writing to ask that you say “NO” to H.R. 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” The bill, introduced by Representative Chris Smith on January 20th, would endanger women’s health and...
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#DearJohn: Resources for the digital activist →
tiger beatdown has some great talking points and info on HR3.
HR3 makes permanent the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal funds for a legal medical procedure. As it stands, Hyde must be renewed each year.
HR3 will make it harder for rape victims to seek justice, by creating a hierarchy of rape that is based on the worst elements of rape culture. HR3 is based on the idea that...
January 2011
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PETA's disgusting casting video →
is it a casting video for porn? no, it’s for PETA not that you can really tell much of a difference. when will PETA stop using women’s bodies and sexuality to promote vegetarianism? the end doesn’t justify the means, and i don’t think anyone goes veg based on these misogynistic ads.
Via lez get real
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Arkansas Supermarket Censors, Then Possibly... →
wtf? how is this even slightly offensive?!
great job arkansas! heteronormativity ftw.
STFU, Conservatives: Want to help Kelley... →
mizjenkins: thecranium:
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She’s in need of donations to appeal the sentence. You can send them to the National Action Network Akron Chapter, c/o Kelley Williams-Bolar, P.O. Box 4152, Akron, Ohio, 44321. Checks can be made payable to Williams-Bolar.
Please spread this far and…
Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to Wrong School... →
this is the first i have heard about this, and it blew me away. this punishment seems so harsh.
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live…
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how a non-profit coffee house is helping to stop... →
this is pretty cool. i have never heard of such a thing before. people volunteer to work in the coffee house and all the profit - overhead go to fighting human trafficking.
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Send health care hypocrites the form to repeal... →
Fill out this form on Credo to send your rep a form to repeal his/her own health insurance.
Who would have the audacity to vote for repealing affordable health care for 32 million Americans while gladly accepting generous, federally subsidized insurance for themselves? 237 congressional health care hypocrites!
Call out this hypocrisy by sending your Representative who voted for repeal the...
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My husband brought a knife to a political rally →
this is a moving account of what it is really like to live with and love someone with severe mental illness. the stigma is still far too great in this country. mental illness can range from mild to severe, and no matter what it is - depression, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, social anxiety - it is not something that a person should be vilified or blamed for. it is also not...
December 2010
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HuffPo's Top 10 Craziest Moments in Body Image... →
These moments are pretty crazy!
Amanda Seyfried doesn’t eat: “Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just spinach. Spinach and some seeds.”
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Petition telling Etsy to remove the rape greeting... →
There’s a petition on change.org now telling Etsy to remove the rape congratulation greeting cards. Only 352 people have signed it (up from 296 when i signed last night). Please go sign it and pass this link along!!
I reported the card on Etsy right after i posted the link and so far i have gotten no response from them. Maybe they will not ignore a petition signed by 500 people?
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Etsy calls "Congratulations on your rape" greeting... →
the description of the card reads “Get creeped on, get raped? Know someone that has? Then this card is for them.” the seller’s name is youstupidbitch. this is all incredibly offensive but what is most offensive is Etsy’s reply to a blogger that complained:
…It is important to us that we allow members of the community to express their own sensibilities, and to...
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Blacks doubt death in small Southern town is a... →
this is a sad thing, whether or not it was suicide. the question that i have is, why isn’t more of an investigation being done to put people’s minds at ease? there are questions and it seems that they could easily be answered rather than simply closing the case as a suicide. a young man’s memory needs to be honored, whatever the cause of his death. it seems odd to me that someone...
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