Abortion Funding Assistance for Women in Need
From “Fund Abortion Now“, the blog of the National Network of Abortion Funds – non-profits that provide financial assistance to women in need of an abortion – comes this list of funding sources by...
View ArticleThe War on Women: Reality Optional
Rick Santorum – humiliated in his last electoral bid, and trailing badly in the GOP primary polls – knows he needs to keep saying outrageous things to keep himself in the public eye. Plus which, he’s...
View ArticleComplexities of Transexual Procedures, and of Progressive Healthcare
There’s a great post up at Skepchick, discussing a supposed regimen for “natural” transexual procedures for female-to-male transitioning. Debbie Goddard (@DebGod) responded to a question from a writer...
View ArticlePatriarchal Progressives
Jill Filipovic, at Feministe, has a great post up on objectification of women within liberal activist circles. It was prompted by the much-commented assholery of one Steven Greenstreet, who took video...
View ArticleWhen Do You Still Count as Human?
Here’s a really great snippet from “An Examined Life” (which see). Renowned philosopher Judith Butler takes a walk with Sunaura Taylor, talking about the reality of disability and the ways physical...
View ArticleSusan G. Komen Foundation: Cowardice and Hypocrisy
You’d think one of the most high-profile women’s health organizations in the country would steer clear of misogynist religious-right campaigns to curtail woman-centered healthcare. You’d be wrong....
View ArticleThomas Szasz: Opposition Whip
Thomas Szasz, MD, has died at the age of 92. Szasz made a career as the gadfly of psychiatry, excoriating its role as enforcer of political and social orthodoxy and questioning mental illness as a...
View ArticleBlog for Choice Day 2013: Decimating Law to Eviscerate Women’s Rights Under...
January 22: the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and a perennial high point in the continuing relentless fight for women’s rights. This year is the 40th anniversary of the decision that gave women their own...
View ArticleUnder the Ooze
Once you get on a Scarlett Johansson kick, it’s hard to let go. Real, real hard. Having just done a review of the godawfully dumb but Scarlett-Johansson-containing Lucy, I can’t overlook the...
View ArticleFury Unabated
On a whim, I stumbled into the new Mad Max installment – Fury Road – on what happened to be its opening night. I just wanted diversion, and got it in spades. The film is an utterly unapologetic...
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