Kathy Spillar, executive director of Ms. Magazine and executive vice president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, talks to Rachel about the threats, burglaries, intimidation and violence by anti-abortion extremists, particularly in Georgia.
Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show (05/25/2012)
Also, an article from Huffington Post on the FBI’s investigation of the fires set at two women’s clinics in Georgia here.
“Ohhh Kathy” how I miss you. Rock on with yo bad self. On a more serious note, this looking more and more like the 90s, and that is scary!
"Women raped while in the US military are denied abortions. End this now." →
trigger warning: sexual violence
“A female solider in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by military fire,” declared a piece on rape in the US military in the Guardian last December. As if the details of ensuing isolation, lack of psychological support and risk of homelessness weren’t enough, one travesty was left out: unless life is at risk, military medical insurance does not fund abortion for women who are left pregnant after such attacks. Period.
Even if a woman can afford to pay for her own termination, military hospitals are currently outlawed from performing the procedure.
A feminist vent session
- Yes, sexual assault and rape are prevalent on college campuses.
- Yes, there are cases of false sexual assault and rape reports, but they are no higher than other falsely reported crimes (2-8%).
- And saying that girls (even though girls in college are women not girls) get drunk and regret it later, is an example of VICTIM BLAMING!
- It always amazes me when people are so oblivious or rude. Especially when they have daughters! And I get real pissed when they discredit my work with the Interpersonal Violence Prevention initiative.
women, men and non binaries! PP is pretty much the only medical treatment I can afford.
A poem about Daiya “cheese”
reblogged from modificationnotmutilation:
Daiya you are delicious and i love you a lot
you’re good on a pizza or even a tater tot
If I could afford you id eat you all the time
you make a vegan feel happy when they dine
but Daiya there is something that bugs me so much
no, its not about the taste, or how much I munch
Daiya there is one thing that you just dont have
and that is a FUCKING RESEALABLE BAG
This isn’t even mine but holy shit this part kills me every damn time.
http://fuckyeahsexeducation.tumblr.com/post/23470124439/circumcision →
I have no problem with circumcision so long as the choice is freely consented to. People circumcising babies and children without their consent is seriously fucked up, it’s unacceptable in every way possible. All people deserve the right to choose what does and does not happen with their own…
Wow, this is really interesting.
The fetus lives parasitically. It is a distinct animal surviving off the life (the blood) of another animal creature. It is incapable of surviving on its own resources, of independent nutrition; incapable even of symbiosis. If it is true that males live parasitically upon females, it seems reasonable to suppose that many of them and those loyal to them are in some way sensitive to the parallelism between their situation and that of the fetus. They could easily identify with the fetus.
- Marilyn Frye on why many male-identified male-bodied people are anti-choice.
Interesting. Discuss… what do you think about this statement?
(via yeas)
WOAHHHHHH. Blowin my mind.
