By Jessica • 17 years ago

Just because.

I’m running around like a mad person, so I’m sorry for the slow posting today. But I figure Dolly always makes everything okay.

I’m running around like a mad person, so I’m sorry for the slow posting today. But I figure Dolly always makes everything okay.
By Jessica • 17 years ago

Native American women twice as likely to be raped


A new report from Amnesty International USA shows that Native American women are more than twice as likely to be raped as other U.S. women. The report also noted that at least 86 percent of the reported rapes of Native American women are by non-Native American men.
From The Associated Press:

The human rights group said Tuesday that at least one in three Indian women will be raped or sexually assaulted, compared with fewer than one in five U.S. women overall.
Confusion about whether state, federal or tribal police should respond means victims might not see a police officer or a nurse for hours or days, if at all. Even if a rape victim is taken to ...


A new report from Amnesty International USA shows that Native American women are more than twice as likely to be raped as other U.S. women. The report also noted that at least 86 percent ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

National Call-In Day to Support the Freedom of Choice Act

Feeling down about the Supreme Court decision? Well pick up the phone.
Take action for reproductive justice by joining NARAL Pro-Choice America’s National Call-In Day to Support the Freedom of Choice Act.
Here’s all you have to do…Call 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to both of your senators and your representative. You can even use the following script:
“Please cosponsor the Freedom of Choice Act (H.R.1964/S.1173) to codify Roe v. Wade and guarantee the right to choose for future generations of women.�
Word.

Feeling down about the Supreme Court decision? Well pick up the phone.
Take action for reproductive justice by joining NARAL Pro-Choice America’s National Call-In Day to Support the Freedom of Choice Act.
Here’s ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

Georgia school has its first integrated prom. For real.


Turner County High School in Georgia had their first-ever integrated prom. This year. Lovely.

Adkinson’s sister, Mindy Bryan, attended a segregated prom in 2001.
“There was not anybody that I can remember that was black,” she said. “The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.”

Obviously.
Apparently this bizarre segregated prom thing has gone on for so long because the school never officially sponsored the prom–the parents did. Somehow, that doesn’t really make me feel better.
This, though, has to be my favorite part of the whole debacle: some folks just weren’t comfortable with the new school prom, so the “white prom” still went on.

Nichole Royal, 18, said ...


Turner County High School in Georgia had their first-ever integrated prom. This year. Lovely.

Adkinson’s sister, Mindy Bryan, attended a segregated prom in 2001.
“There was not anybody that I can remember that ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Iran cracks down on summer dress codes

Again. I remember writing about this last year or maybe even the year before. Only this time I noticed something in the way this article was written suggesting that perhaps an increase in the possibility of military conflict with the US, there were crackdowns happening at home.

The campaign in the streets of major cities is the toughest such crackdown in nearly two decades, raising fears that hard-liner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to re-impose the tough Islamic Revolution-era constraints on women’s dress that had loosened in recent years.
The move highlighted the new boldness among hard-liners in Ahmadinejad’s government, which has used mounting Western pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program and Iraq as a pretext to put down internal dissent.

So ...

Again. I remember writing about this last year or maybe even the year before. Only this time I noticed something in the way this article was written suggesting that perhaps an increase in the possibility of military ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

White girls giving gang signs.

Now what is all this about?

Obviously a joke, but is this a trend that just blew right past me?
via Racialicious.
And to respond to this stupidity, we the ladies of Feministing have created our own stupidity. See after the jump if you dare.

Now what is all this about?

Obviously a joke, but is this a trend that just blew right past me?
via Racialicious.
And to respond to this stupidity, we the ladies of Feministing have created our own ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

Happy Equal Pay Day — Now mind the gap.

Contributed by Kay Steiger
I attended a hearing this morning held by the House’s Education and Labor Committee that examined the Paycheck Fairness Act on this, Equal Pay Day. Though the PFA has been introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro 10 times, this is the first time the committee held a hearing.
A report released yesterday by the American Association of University Women found that women one year out of a 4-year college earn 80 percent of what their male counterparts earn. When the report looks at women 10 years after graduation, women are earning 69 cents to every dollar that men earn. The most significant finding of the study, though, is that controlling for all factors, including “educational ...

Contributed by Kay Steiger
I attended a hearing this morning held by the House’s Education and Labor Committee that examined the Paycheck Fairness Act on this, Equal Pay Day. Though the PFA has been introduced by Rep. ...

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