June 2012
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There are thousands of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who are coming home who...
– Kevin O’Brien: The Other Side of Veterans With Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury PTS/TBI
May 9, 2012
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May 2012
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Gender isn’t simply a biological trait; it’s a societal one. The...
– Why Do I Write “Strong Women” Characters? - io9 Matt Rucka
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You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you’re...
– Laurie Penny: A woman’s opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent November 4, 2011
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Hatred against those receiving benefits is out of control in Cameron’s...
– Owen Jones: Hatred of those on benefits is dangerously out of control - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent of London, UK 2012
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The economics of intimate partner violence shape the impacts of abuse as well....
– GOP Version of Violence Against Women Act Tries to Push Women Back Into the Home | | AlterNet 2012
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April 2012
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by even accepting modesty as a valid area of concern for women, you have...
– How Modesty Doctrines Made Me Hate My Body | RH Reality Check by Vyckie Garrison, November 21, 2011
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Modesty taught me that I was a decoration. Everything about my life was governed...
– How Modesty Doctrines Made Me Hate My Body | RH Reality Check by Vyckie Garrison, November 21, 2011
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Between personhood bills and the assault on access to contraception, it’s...
– Arizona Lawmakers Trying To Legislate Pregnancy Two Weeks Prior To Conception | RH Reality Check
April 1, 2012
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Again, at the same time as the Catholic church has warned dioceses against...
– Catholic Bishops Were Behind Komen Defunding Planned Parenthood - Part 2 | Care2 Causes
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[T]he conversation was pointedly nasty, gendered, and misogynistic and embodies...
– Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance - The Daily Beast
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Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men...
– Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance - The Daily Beast
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I hold that it is none of my business what people think of me. I arrived at this...
– Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance - The Daily Beast
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Domestic violence advocates sounded alarms earlier this year when Congress...
– Reproductive Control - When Women Are Forced to Get Pregnant - Redbook
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Reproductive coercion comes in a variety of forms: men who exert psychological...
– Reproductive Control - When Women Are Forced to Get Pregnant - Redbook
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The Womanifesto: Men's Reproductive Rights →
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While we focus so much on women’s (and throughout this post I’m saying women to imply all uterus-bearers regardless of their gender) reproductive rights, some people like to say “Hey, where are men’s reproductive rights? If the woman doesn’t want the fetus she can get rid of it even if I want it…
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Survey Indicates "Reproductive Coercion" Prevalent →
A survey released yesterday by the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the Family Violence Prevention Fund revealed that one in four women who agreed to answer questions after calling the hotline had experienced “reproductive coercion.” The Family Violence Prevention Fund defines “reproductive coercion” as “threats or acts of violence against a reproductive health or reproductive decision...
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5 Ways the GOP’s War on Women Is Fueling Rape... →
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It’s been an explosively successful year for anti-choice legislators, lobbyists, and supporters. It seems every day there’s news of a new abortion (or birth control) restriction being introduced or passed in some state legislature, each story containing painfully ignorant quotations from the legislator who authored the bill. Here are five ways that recently introduced and enacted...
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Over the years [after 1864, ‘In God We Trust’] disappeared and...
– The Founders Preferred ‘E Pluribus Unum’ as a Motto - Get Rid of ‘In God We Trust’ - NYTimes.com
April 4, 2012
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As a child nobody dreams of growing up one day and driving somebody else’s...
– Santosh Desai, columnist for Times of India, regarding children and adults enslaved as domestic help.
India Shaken by Plight of 13-Year-Old Maid - NYTimes.com April 5, 2012
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"The People United Will Never Be Defeated": Maddow... →
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night said the Republican Party needed to either own up to its legislative agenda or stop doing it.
She mocked the idea that the Democrat’s huge lead among female voters in battleground states was the result of media bias, as RNC chair Reince Priebus had…
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Black males are, for far too many in America, a racial Rorschach test, onto...
– Tim Wise: Trayvon Martin, White Denial and the Unacceptable Burden of Blackness in America
March 22, 2012
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March 2012
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Within a realistic time frame there is not going to be any change in human...
– Noam Chomsky on linguistics and climate change. - Slate Magazine March 2012
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I would say some of the most startling national statistics are the teen...
– Would you let your teen have sex at home? | parents, sex, teen - Life - The Orange County Register
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[T]he personal is always political. I believe that all of our acts are rooted in...
– Mammograms, Contraception, and Abortion are Always Political, Even Religious. We Ignore This At Our Peril | RH Reality Check February 5, 2012
“The personal is political” is one of the most important slogans of the Second Wave of feminism, which dates back to the early 1960s.
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Suggesting that abortion be “safe, legal, and rare,” and crowing that “no one...
– I Love Abortion: Implying Otherwise Accomplishes Nothing for Women’s Rights | RH Reality Check
by Jessica DelBalzo
March 14, 2012
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[W]e must remember that extenuating circumstances like health, contraceptive...
– I Love Abortion: Implying Otherwise Accomplishes Nothing for Women’s Rights | RH Reality Check
by Jessica DelBalzo
March 14, 2012
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To me there is nothing more beautiful than the written word personified, inked...
– by Jaclyn Popola
Tattoo Ideas: Words & Phrases II
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Most American women who conceive a disabled child choose to abort. Santorum is...
– by Stephanie Mencimer
Rick Santorum: Obamacare Poster Boy | Mother Jones