UPDATE (3/19/12 @ 1:03 PM): New action!! Head over to Say It, Sister! (National NOW’s blog) for more info about taking action to tell the Missouri state government a Rush Limbaugh statue is NOT OK!!Also, at last count there were over 150 advertisers who dropped Rush!! UPDATE (3/12/12 @ 12:51 PM): According to Media Matters, […]
Call to Action: Rush Limbaugh calls BC Champion Sandra Fluke a ‘Prostitute’
The Feminist Campus Team is outraged this morning after hearing Rush Limbaugh’s vicious and inappropriate attacks waged at Sandra Fluke. Fluke is the outspoken and courageous Georgetown Law student who has advocated for birth control coverage without co-pays or deductibles for students and employees of religiously-affiliated institutions. Sandra was denied a seat at the table […]
Live-Tweet Rundown: Today’s Sham Hearing about Birth Control Coverage
We’ve all seen the picture. We know what’s wrong. It’s obvious. So obvious, in fact that it’s unbelievable that the Majority members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform didn’t see a problem with having a panel of five men to talk about birth control coverage! Even after the President announced implementation that […]
A Message about Birth Control from the 71%
Growing up a New Yorker, I was fortunate enough to live in a state that mandated insurance plans cover birth control. Growing up the daughter of a nurse who was employed by a Catholic hospital, I was not fortunate enough to ever actually reap the benefits of this policy. My mother is not a Catholic […]
‘Twas the Night Before Election Day…
…And all through Mississippi, the Campus Team and their amazing Students Voting No on 26 organizers were working their butts off to get out the vote. Many people, inside Mississippi and throughout the country, have been talking about MS i26 this past week or so. That’s primarily because it’s so extreme and dangerous for women […]
Maine Secretary of State’s Confusing Anti-Voter Agenda
In Maine, Secretary of State Charlie Summers’ job it is to protect the voting rights of Maine residents, and yet he supports the legislation obviously suppressing that right. In June, upon Summers’ recommendation, Governor Paul LePage signed a bill into law repealing the state’s 38 year old law allowing same-day voter registration. This effectively strips […]
You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Healthcare
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Seventeen months ago I was driving back to New York with some new friends from the 2010 National Young Feminist Leadership Conference when the announcement came through – the Affordable Care Act was on its way to the President’s desk. In July, I sat in the conference room as […]
Summer of Choice is Over — What Now?
So you’ve read Sarah’s blog about the amazing pro-choice support for Summer of Choice and Laura’s blog about the anti-choice extremists who are targeting providers and clinics here in Germantown and across the country. I know what you’re thinking – what can I do to take action, fight back, and protect access to comprehensive women’s […]
School for Young Mothers is Disposable for Detroit
Yesterday morning I wrote a story for our daily Feminist News site about the closing of Catherine Ferguson Academy. It turned out to be difficult for me to keep my language neutral in any way or maintain journalistic integrity; hence I must now blog about it because I’m pissed off. I originally heard about this […]
NYPD: Shame on you
So, former NYPD officer Kenneth Moreno would like the world to feel bad for having to travel the “rough road” of the past two and half years since he was indicted for raping an intoxicated woman after escorting her to her apartment. Last Thursday, Moreno was found not guilty, as was former officer Franklin Mata […]