Throughout the confirmation process, Sonia Sotomayor has distinguished herself from prospective candidates and future colleagues by self-identifying as a “wise Latina” and explaining how her life experience, the daughter of immigrant parents and raised in the Bronx, expands her views of the world and gives her a leg up in comparison to other justices.
Critics have [...]
So, What is Feminist Mothering? – Feministe
What Sotomayor’s Confirmation May Cost the Republicans – Women’s Media Center
Adventures in Lube – Essin’ Em
WTF? A Breastfeeding Babydoll? WTF? – Feministing
Find Out Which Birth Control is Right For You – Amplify Your Voice
This is my first blog and I am intimidated by all the wonderful writers on this site and have no idea what to write about. I wanted to cover the proposed health care plan but it seems like everything I have read the past couple of weeks have been about health care. My next grand [...]
Jury duty continues this week, but at least I’ve got my pro-choice reading materials to keep me occupied during breaks. Here’s a few to get your week started off right.
India to Create Abortion Registry to Reduce Sex Selection – Medical News Today
Blue Dog Democrats Won’t Support Health Care Reform – NPR
Sotomayor on Gay Rights: [...]
Holy crap, it’s the weekend. Sweet! Here are some links to get is started off properly.
Y Chromosome May Disappear – Science Daily
House Lifts Ban on DC’s Ability to Fund Abortion With Local Funds – NARAL
Sotomayor on Gay Marriage – 365 Gay
Health Care Reform Could Equalize Tax Treatment of DP Benefits – GayPolitics.com
Sex Toy [...]
Here’s what we missed yesterday while we were watching Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings.
Media Justice for Sotomayor – Women’s Media Center
Women & Privacy: Questions for Sotomayor – Womenstake
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Senate Confirmation Hearings – Womenstake
Ginsburg & Sotomayor: What Else Do They Have in Common? – Women’s e-News
Women in Sudan Lashed for Wearing Pants – BBC
The Senate confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor have just started. Senator Leahy is still getting through her extensive bio. One thing that troubles me is that the questions haven’t even started yet and they’ve already handed Sotomayor the burden of breaking prejudice on the Court. However, hes does say that she’s “a [...]
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 [...]
Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor begin Monday, July 13. At first the pro-choice community knew nothing about her record on choice and how she might vote on an abortion case. Unfortunately, we still have no hard evidence. We cannot make assumptions, but over the past few months of the media, congress, [...]
“It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”
-Hannah Arendt
The banality of evil. When Hannah Arendt wrote of Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem she painted him as entirely average, not [...]
