Politics
Audrey Bilger talks gay marriage, gender roles, and Roseanne Barr on the Menage
Audrey Bilger’s article “Wife Support” appeared in the Art/See issue of Bitch and discussed how the word “wife” was evolving with the gay marriage movement. The article caught the eye of Seatte talk show the Menage, who intereviewed Audrey in December 2009. Here’s the full rambunctious... Read more »
Going Pro: Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad Responses
CBS’s decision to air a Focus on the Family ad during this year’s Super Bowl, while frustrating for pro-choice advocates, has a silver lining: It has inspired some pretty, well, inspiring, responses.
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The Biotic Woman: Strays and Breeders Edition
Andre Bauer, South Carolina's Lt. Governor, conflated the suffering of people and animals, threatened those on government assistance with unnecessary and unrelated stipulations to receiving their benefits, and used sexual shaming tactics and mocked decision-making abilities that he conflated with... Read more »
Recommended reading on Sarah Palin's disability (lack)tivism
Seen the new cover of InTouchWeekly yet?
I recommend chasing it with Kristina Chew’s article on Care2 speculating whether Palin will be covering disability rights on her new Fox position, and... Read more »
Asylum-seeking lesbians find expression through art
The recent Uganda death penalty bill for homosexuality has raised awareness of the inhumane treatment of LGBT people globally. The repercussions of rape, jail, and murder for expressing your sexuality are... Read more »
Race Card: Blagojevich Says He's "Blacker" than Obama
Oh, no he didn't. In the February issue of Esquire, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich declares himself "blacker" than Barack Obama is. Discussing the first black President, the disgraced... Read more »
People for the Ethical Treatment of Obama
PETA is in some hot water (again) for using first lady Michelle Obama’s image in one of their ads without her permission. PETA pres... Read more »
Don't Drop the Birth Control Ball This Year
Oh the things that make up New Year’s Eve: chintzy eye-glasses, countless top ten lists, nosiemakers…emergency contraception? According to the National Institute for Reproductive Health, sales for emergency contraception... Read more »
Her Life Depends On It
Here's something I learned today: Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician in the U.S., gave a series of lectures in 1859 that emphasized the importance of physical
activity in the lives of girls-going so far as to define the first law of life as the law of exercise. Blackwell argued that a... Read more »
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