Earlier this week, the New York Times was rightly criticized for victim-blaming and overall bad reporting in a story about the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, Texas. The reporter, James C. McKinley, seems preoccupied with what the survivor wore, who she hung out with, and whether her mother was keeping a close watch—the [...]
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A Noticeable Absence: Women in the Media on IWD
Yesterday, March 8, was International Women’s Day (IWD). On this day, groups around the world celebrated women in general and specifically, our political and social accomplishments. Happily, I follow feminist blogs and Twitter accounts that alerted me to this fact. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have known about it. I checked the New York [...]
Victims or Agents? Carla Koppell on the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Anybody who pays even the slightest attention to the world around them has a right to sometimes be a little confused about the lives women lead. In America, we see news about women earning more Bachelor’s degrees than men while simultaneously being bombarded with words and images that portray women as mindless sex objects. Internationally, [...]
Roots of Collective Bargaining
Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi "The boss is hurrying the life out of me." Rose Cohen and her father immigrated from Czarist Russia to the tenements of New York City, working exhausting schedules under harsh conditions to survive and to send for the rest of the family. In this podcast, I read an excerpt [...]
Women’s Health Issues: News from This Week
It’s only Wednesday, and already, this has not been a good week for women’s health. As many of you know, the Planned Parenthood defunding debate continues. Sen. Schumer called H.R. 3 "dead on arrival" in the Senate, but pro-life Republicans show no sign of relenting. The New York Times has dubbed this a war on [...]
“77% of pro-life activists are men. 100% will never be pregnant.”
On Saturday, our dedicated Fem2.0 bloggers Christina Black and Maggie Arden met up at Upper Senate Park for the DC Walk for Choice. Here are their impressions, what they learned and their hopes for the future. Christina Black This was only my second rally, ever. The first was Jon Stewart’s Rally for Sanity last fall. [...]
Advocacy, Part II: Continuing the Conversation, and What You Can Do – This Week
Today, I just want to do a brief follow-up on my activism post from last week with a few additional links and suggestions. With the GOP’s current “war on women,” this question has become more important than ever, and we’re not the only ones talking about it. Glorida Feldt on Blogher offered some great suggestions [...]
Abortion Underground II–JANE
Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi "In the public discourse the fetus has been elevated to an equal status with a living, breathing human being. More and more, women are viewed as the enemy of children, requiring the State’s intervention to protect their developing children from them. But, in reality, women still conceive, nurture, give [...]
Welcome to South Dakota: The Anti-Choice State
Interested in murdering abortion providers without penalty? You may soon have your chance! A provision expanding the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus was added to HB 1171, a law under consideration in South Dakota. This bill was voted out of committee and is now [...]