By celina • 17 years ago

Rachel B. Tiven: Immigration Equality Now!


Rachel B. Tiven is the executive director of Immigration Equality based in New York City. Immigration Equality is a national organization that fights for the U.S. immigration rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals. Founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, Immigration Equality has grown to a membership of 10,000 people in cities across the country. Immigration Equality is funded by donations from members as well as private foundations.
Here’s Rachel…


Rachel B. Tiven is the executive director of Immigration Equality based in New York City. Immigration Equality is a national organization that fights for the U.S. immigration rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

A holiday message that I actually like

My new apartment is in perhaps the most Italian-Catholic building in Queens, and things are geting a little Jesus heavy in the lobby’s decorations. So a little eco-Santa action was a much needed treat.

My new apartment is in perhaps the most Italian-Catholic building in Queens, and things are geting a little Jesus heavy in the lobby’s decorations. So a little eco-Santa action was a much needed treat.
By Jessica • 17 years ago

All I want for Christmas


I can imagine it now…
The guy at the bar who has spent the last fifteen minutes making bad feminism jokes after I told him about what I do is now inexplicably asking me for my number. Instead of wasting my breath to tell him what I think about him, I just hand him a card. Perfection.
Via Gawker.

I can imagine it now…
The guy at the bar who has spent the last fifteen minutes making bad feminism jokes after I told him about what I do is now inexplicably asking me for my ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

Shocker: Contraception makes life better

Cristina Page, author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, has a great piece in Alternet about contraception and how it changed life in the U.S.–for the better.
In Contraception Saves Money and Marriages, Page points out that despite what the anti-birth control nuts say–you know, that birth control causes homosexuality and increases abortion rates–access to contraception is pro-family.

The religious right is right in this: Birth control is the source of seismic change. Family planning has led to a transformation of our society so rapid we’ve only recently had the occasion to take stock. For example, the past century has actually witnessed a steep decline in extramarital affairs as a result, it would seem, of the ...

Cristina Page, author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, has a great piece in Alternet about contraception and how it changed life in the U.S.–for the better.
In Contraception Saves Money and Marriages, Page ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

One holiday I am ALL over.

Global Orgasm for Peace Day. I am so glad I read Alternet or this one would have just passed me by. The purpose is that we get as many people as possible worldwide to orgasm while focusing on world peace. The only thing is you can’t fake it. DUH.

When anti-war activists Paul Reffell and Donna Sheehan planned their latest peace-making project — the synchronized global orgasm — to fall on Dec. 22, they may not have realized that it’s the last Friday before Christmas. It’s a day many people take off, and so, have a little extra time on their hands. Sweet coinkydink or a holiday miracle, today’s your chance to improve the world — batteries not included.

And why did ...

Global Orgasm for Peace Day. I am so glad I read Alternet or this one would have just passed me by. The purpose is that we get as many people as possible worldwide to orgasm while focusing ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Senegalese women want better work.

Although religion and culture do not permit working in bars, many young women in Senegal are being forced to work in bars due to economic necessity. Voice of America looks at the story of two women that are trying to make it out of the bar scene.

Estimates for the unemployment rate for Senegal range between 40 and 60 percent. Many high school and even college graduates cannot find jobs in the formal sector.
Based on current population trends, the International Labor Office estimates that by the year 2015, the number of young people will grow by 30 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Which may mean less choices for many youth like Mya, who will not settle for just any job.
“It ...

Although religion and culture do not permit working in bars, many young women in Senegal are being forced to work in bars due to economic necessity. Voice of America looks at the story of two women that ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Women in Darfur suffering depression.

I mean this is not really surprising due to constant warfare, threat of rape, lack of food or money and ongoing displacement happening in several parts of Sudan. But either way, the women of Darfur are indeed suffereing from poor mental health.

A new study of internally displaced women in Sudan’s South Darfur illuminates the bleak status of women’s mental health in the volatile region. The study, which will be published in January by the International Medical Corps (IMC), found that although humanitarian aid helps meet women’s basic nutritional needs, the mental health of displaced women in Darfur is largely neglected.
Almost one-third (31 percent) of women surveyed met the criteria for major depressive disorder while 63 percent reported suffering the ...

I mean this is not really surprising due to constant warfare, threat of rape, lack of food or money and ongoing displacement happening in several parts of Sudan. But either way, the women of Darfur are indeed ...

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