Despite the fact that Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, intolerance and homophobia remain rampant in the social, cultural, and political sphere. This didn’t, however, keep the gays from maneuvering a wild goose chase to keep the local police force off their trail as they proceeded to protest homophobia in Moscow. Twenty-five gay and lesbian activists [...]
Guest blogger Shanman is a graduate student at the University of Arizona. He loves little dogs and feminist theory. When he’s not busy cramming for graduate seminars, he plays video games and crochets. These are his words. Around 9am this morning I heard voices yelling. I had heard that there might be a morning protest [...]
Teen Girls Bear the Burden of STD’s According to CDC – RH Reality Check Fess Up, Faux Clinics – Broadsheet The Anti-Abortion Protest That Wasn’t – Broadsheet Health Care Will Reform Birth Control, Too – The Wichita Eagle Broaching Birth Control With Afghan Mullahs – New York Times
The wing nuts are gearing up for 40 days of ass-hattery and, oh yeah . . . prayer. Anti-choicers will be gathering outside of family planning clinics to provide “sidewalk counseling” (in the form of telling lies about abortion through a megaphone) and generally be making life harder than it already is for clinic staff, [...]
Operation Rescue has its newest target: Dr. Leroy Carhart in Nebraska. Dr. Carhart provides abortions and also performs late term abortions just as Dr. Tiller did in Wichita, KS. Anti-choice extremists are launching an attack against Dr. Leroy because he is unafraid to perform abortion and protect the rights of the women and families who [...]
Guest writer nicki2377 is a newly active feminist activist from Wichita, KS. After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, she realized that believing in a woman’s right to choose wasn’t enough – sometimes you have to hold a sign in the pouring rain for the cause. She is currently working hard to make up for [...]
Tips For Taking Care of Your Sex Toys – Lesbian Lush Obama Administration Files Papers to Repeal DOMA – NPR Why Don’t More People Use the Female Condom? – Splice Personhood Bills A Big Money Maker for the Anti-Choice Movement – Air America Dr. Carhart Gearing Up For Anti-Choicers – Omaha World Herald Aborting Health [...]
Both pro-choice and anti-choice demonstrators have showed up outside of the Capitol building this morning to voice their opinions about Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination. The press release that anti-choice groups sent out last week said that they would have a Sotomayor look-a-like carrying a sickle, as well as dead babies in coffins, at the [...]
