This upcoming Saturday, August 18th, thousands of protesters are converging on the Capitol in Washington, DC at a women’s rights rally. I have to ask, along with the organizers, We Are Woman, spokesperson Jessica DelBazlo, who wrote here last week: Why don’t more people know about this national march? The event is focused on the [...]
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Please Stop Telling Me Why You Use Birth Control
There are things I care very, very deeply about. Especially when it comes to women’s health, and women’s lives. This isn’t because I think that women are special. This is because I care deeply about people’s health, and people’s lives, and for some reason still incomprehensible to me, many people do not view women as [...]
On International Women’s Day, a Woman’s Pleasure
Today was International Women’s Day. There were articles written by thoughtful well-meaning women and smart indomitable women, coming together to welcome our progress and caution about the obstacles yet to conquer. I couldn’t help but feel pre-emptively weary of reading these articles. These last few months have been such a scathing beating of American women [...]