The YWCA USA is thanking those Senators and Representatives who have supported extending tax cuts for the middle class. Join us and thank your Congressman or Congresswoman – send a letter, tag them in a Facebook holiday card, or send them a Tweet. When I was attending graduate school, I interned at the YWCA Madison (Wis.), which served homeless and [...]
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Going Over the Fiscal Cliff: Women and Kids First
Congress is likely to remain in session until Christmas Eve — wrangling over the looming sequester and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. The country doesn’t have enough money, or doesn’t spend it right, or the rich have too much of it, or the middle class doesn’t have enough, or the poor get too much [...]
We Must Keep Fighting: Post World AIDS Day
I was born in 1989, while the AIDS epidemic in the US was in full force. I’ve never lived in a world where learning about HIV/AIDS wasn’t a part of my school health classes. I know that I’m lucky to have been taught an unbigoted view of how HIV/AIDS could happen to anyone, no matter [...]
World AIDS Day: Seize the day
With December 1 comes World AIDS Day. The timing of this commemoration of those gone, those still fighting, and our hopes at prevention (and dare-we-hope an end?) to this epidemic always strikes me as curious. For Americans, World AIDS Day comes on the heels of Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) and nearly smack in the [...]
Toned Arms & Tight Shirts: Media Coverage of the Petraeus Affair
National news coverage this month has been dominated by the exposure of the extramarital affair of CIA director David Petraeus. Oddly enough, Petraeus is not the key player in this story – at least as told by the media. Rather, a national spotlight has stalked not Petraeus, but his mistress: Paula Broadwell. And it’s been [...]
The Election is Over but I am still scared
Sure the election is over, but Emily Heist Moss still worries that she’ll have to spend the rest of her life defending her rights.
Obama Wins! Ding-Dong The Election (Season) Is Dead!
Praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever deity you do or don’t believe in… this presidential campaign season is all over but the shouting! And there is good news to report! Of course, people wasted no time celebrating (or complaining) via social media of the president’s victory. I personally loved Think Progress’ tweet, “Obama Wins. It’s better on Fox [...]
Elizabeth Warren’s Fight for Women vs. Scott Brown’s Faux Pro-Choice Stance
My home state of Massachusetts has never elected a woman to the U.S. Senate. But we have the chance to make history today by voting for Elizabeth Warren. Now I don’t vote for women merely because of their gender. Although I do believe we need more women in electoral office at all levels. But as [...]
Why Rape Should Matter To Your Vote: 50 Facts
God, again. Rape? What is the big deal? There are more important issues than “the rape thing.” At least that’s what I keep hearing. However, I am with Garance Franke-Ruta who asked recently, in an Atlantic piece called Richard Mourdock, Mitt Romney, and the GOP Defense of Coerced Mating: “Do we want to live in a country [...]
Something Of Monumental Importance is Happening Tomorrow!
It’s here! I can’t believe tomorrow is finally Election Day. By now you’re probably exhausted from all of the pleas for your vote. I know I am. But hopefully you’ve already registered and, if you didn’t vote early or by absentee, you plan to vote tomorrow at a polling station. Well if you’re tired of [...]