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Feministe’s Next Top Troll is still in its initial round, and there are more trolls to read and love. This time it’s a couple of commenters who have very special relationships with both...
He slashed abstinence-only education, which is fantastic, but unfortunately did not strike governmental restrictions on abortion as hoped. The Center for Reproductive Rights has more:
The Hyde...
Washington and Lee law professor Robin Wilson has an op/ed in the LA Times arguing that same-sex marriage laws must be careful to not infringe on religious freedom. Apparently “religious freedom”...
The Garden by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
(Black Valley Films)
At Home In Utopia by Michal Goldman
(Filmmakers Collaborative)
Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s The Garden opens with aerial shots of South...
This Argentinian advertisement is currently making the internet rounds:
I’m of two minds about this: On one hand, of course it’s nice to see an ad with a fuzzy message about how positive...
Today is the Eleventh Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today is a day to remember the transgender people (or people perceived by their killers to be trans) who have died as a result of hatred and violence, and as a result of the hateful and...
Part of the funding for the Senate’s health care bill will come from a 5% tax on cosmetic surgery. The tax would generate $5 billion over ten years, and would only tax procedures where surgery “is not necessary to ameliorate a deformity arising...
As you have probably read by now, the Senate introduced its version of the health care bill yesterday. As expected, it’s good and bad — it includes a public option, but leaves a lot of people out in the cold, and opens up the healthcare debate to an...
I watch how those around me do activism, and I wonder about how to serve ourselves and the world better. I so often see people hurtling along, trying to cram in as much as possible, falling apart, hitting the dust. I have no problem with trying to do...