Tag: women’s rights
A View From Afar, with Roger Ivan Hart
According to statistics, the vast majority who frequent this blog are from within the United States. Often, we Americans can become so steeped in our own media and local paradigms, that it becomes challenging to see a clear image of ourselves as a nation. In this blog series, you will be offered a view from [...]
Speaking Out Against Inflammatory Rhetoric
In case the pattern is not obvious, the most radical and threatening elements of the current regressive trends in America linger at the more local level. In particular, these theocratic and authoritarian amateurs thrive the closer to “home” one gets. They persist so long as they don’t state their far out and dangerous views in [...]
Dangerous Ignorance
Content Warning: It’s an Akin story, so mentions of rape abound. Todd Akin represents much of the outer St. Louis suburbs in my home metropolitan area. On a local Sunday morning news program, he was pressed about his opposition to a woman’s choice even in cases of rape. His response and his follow-ups immediately went [...]
The Pro-Life False Premise
“Republicans, get out of my vagina.” This a great slogan for the recent zeitgeist against the medically invasive bills targeting women’s rights that have been flooding in, the past few years. The mere idea of an abortion debate is a dangerous and pervasive platform. Discussing the beginning of life in tandem with abortion is equivalent [...]
Conscience Efforts
Pharmacists In Kansas Can Now Deny Women Access To Birth Control Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill that will allow pharmacists in the state to refuse to fill a prescription they think could be used to induce abortion. … the law’s opponents say it could allow a pharmacist to interfere with a woman’s [...]
#NudePhotoRevolutionary
In a press release today, Maryam Namazie formally announced the #nudephotorevolutionary calendar. As Aliaa Magda Elmahdy chose to stand up against female oppression, we too advocate for free-expression and women’s rights. This calendar features black and white nude photographs, and I’m Ms. September. For Maryam’s article announcing the calendar’s release and to purchase a calendar [...]
#nudephotorevolutionary
[Click for Update] There has been some concern expressed about my intent to participate in an upcoming calendar to support free-speech and women’s rights. I say ‘intent’ because it’s a call for submissions, and while I’m submitting a photo, entry is not guaranteed. The calendar is being created by activist and blogger Maryam Namazie in [...]
The Dangers of Dogma
Michelle Duggar, 45, has suffered a miscarriage. Suffer is the right word here, as a woman who has experienced a miscarriage, I can attest that it is an event wrought with physical and emotional pain, and I empathize with her. After nineteen children, and oodles of media attention, maybe the Duggars’ spotlight is over now [...]
