reproductive rights
What's Under the Polish: A Review of "Joy Joy Nails": New Short Film by Joey Ally Explores Salon Workers and Exploitation
What begins with upbeat music and bright pink neon lights quickly shifts into a disturbing drama, plunging the viewer deep into the lives of exploited salon workers.
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Not Your Belly, Not Your Business: On Serena Williams, Reproduction, and Athleticism
Invasions of Black women’s privacy are often supported by societal notions of Black women’s inability to feel pain in the same ways non-Black people do.
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Popaganda: Where Abortion Is Illegal
Donald Trump and Mike Pence say they want to ban abortion in the United States. But they seem to have a hazy idea of what that will actually mean. Millions of people around the world know all too well what happens when abortion is criminalized: 25 percent of the world’s population lives... Read more »
Mourning Norma McCorvey: The Story of Jane Roe is a Lifelong Struggle to Heal from Hardship and Abuse
Norma was not wounded by the abortions she didn’t have. She was wounded by life.
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Pop Culture Prepared Me: The Trumpocalypse
So glad yet horrified that pop culture prepared me for these terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad, troubled dystopian horror times!
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Six Ways to Take Action This Week
We’re going to have to get creative, and we’re going to have to be loud.
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Roe at 44 May Be Our Worst Roe Ever
Having Congress, The White House, the Supreme Court and most of the states in the nation all under one party’s control? That’s more alarming, and signals real danger for abortion rights.
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Musicians <3 Planned Parenthood
New attacks on women’s health have spurred musicians to support Planned Parenthood in some pretty inventive ways.
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Jeff Sessions is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Jeff Sessions’s strategy at his confirmation hearing was to approach every question with a nice voice and a smile, praise for his questioners, careful phrasing, and a conveniently foggy memory.
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Reproductive Rights Corner: Hail, Satan!
Members of the Satanic Temple don’t believe in a literal Satan, but instead see Satan as a symbol of personal sovereignty and rebellion in opposition to arbitrary authority.
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