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Remembering Dr. Rosalie Bertell
From Beyond Nuclear: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/6/15/remembering-dr-rosalie-bertell.html June 15, 2012 We mourn the passing of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, age 83, who died peacefully on June 14....
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Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom Made History
From The Progressive: http://progressive.org/elinor_ostrom_made_history.html By Amitabh Pal June 14, 2012 Elinor Ostrom, who passed away on June 12 from pancreatic cancer, made history by becoming the...
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Vagina, Vagina, Vagina
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/168429/vagina-vagina-vagina Jessica Valenti June 15, 2012 Yesterday, Michigan Representative Lisa Brown was banned from speaking after having the...
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Vaginas aren’t dirty, even in Michigan
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/15/vaginas-arent-dirty-even-in-michigan A Michigan politician was banned from a debate after saying ‘vagina’ in a discussion...
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Archivists as Activists
From In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13356/archivists_as_activists BY Sady Doyle June 14, 2012 Can curation be a form of activism? And how well do New Yorkers know, or value, their...
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Transgender pioneer April Ashley given MBE
While others cite Christine Jorgensen as the sister who gave them the courage to go on and inspired them to dare live what they felt in their hearts, April Ashley was the one who provided that bit of...
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No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology
I keep hearing wonderful things about Kate’s new book. Even though Kate sometimes infuriates the hell out of me we’ve met a couple of times and she is wonderfully witty and a genuinely terrific person...
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A Woman’s Right To Choose Must Apply To All Women
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/valerie-keefe/abortion-law-canada_b_1595667.html Valerie Keefe Writer, activist, candidate, unpaid political consultant, service-sector prole, and...
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Nessie a Plesiosaur? Louisiana To Fund Schools Using Odd, Bigoted...
From Talk2Action: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/6/17/9311/48633 Bruce Wilson Sun Jun 17, 2012 “the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the...
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The Bishops’ Politics: Why Are Women’s Health and Lives Subject to The...
From RH Reality Check: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/06/18/politics-catholicism-womens-health-and-hospital-mergers-3 by Imani Gandy June 18, 2012 Many of the religions practiced in the...
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9 U.S. senators to Harkin: Time to move on ENDA
From The Washington Blade: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/06/19/9-u-s-senators-to-harkin-time-to-move-on-enda/ By Chris Johnson June 19, 2012 A bipartisan group of nine senators is backing the...
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Transgender woman sentenced to men’s prison in Minnesota killing
From The LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-transgender-woman-sentenced-to-mens-prison-20120618,0,7339203.story By Matt Pearce June 18, 2012 Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, 24,...
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Everybody’s Trans: Gender Oppression Hurts All of Us
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laverne-cox/everybodys-trans-gender-o_b_1605314.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Laverne Cox 06/19/2012 When I was bullied as a child, called names,...
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That’s What She Said
From Pretty Queer: http://www.prettyqueer.com/2012/02/27/that-what-she-said/ By Jack Radish February 27, 2012 Reposted with Permission Sometimes I wonder whether trans men writing about transmisogyny...
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Exit, Don’t Enable the Roman Catholic Church
From Truth Wins Out: http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2012/06/26340/ by Wayne Besen Posted June 19th, 2012 Reposted with Permission If there is one thing that irks me, it is having the Roman Catholic...
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We Were Here
Last night KERA, our local PBS station aired the documentary We Were Here on its series, Frontline. We Were Here is a powerful documentary about the worst years of the AIDS Crisis in San Francisco. In...
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Class War at the Supreme Court
From The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-class-war-at-the-supreme-court/2012/06/26/gJQAuffO5V_story.html Harold Meyerson June 26, 2012 On the eve of the Supreme...
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Monsanto Trumps Food Safety and Democracy (Again)
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/news/item/9961-monsanto-trumps-food-safety-and-democracy-again By Charlotte Silver Monday, 25 June 2012 San Francisco – As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take...
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