Native American women, domestic violence and Congress.

Native and indigenous women are victims of domestic violence at higher rates than the average American woman. Why is that? A history of displacement, colonization and violence I am sure have something to do with it, along with lack of resources, legislation or education to help women out of bad situations. You know, just a few minor bumps in the road.
I guess Congress noticed after an Amnesty report found that Native and Alaskan women are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault in their lifetimes.

The House of Representatives Wednesday approved a bipartisan measure that would provide one million dollars for the creation of a tribal sex offender and protection order registry to identify serial perpetrators of ...

Native and indigenous women are victims of domestic violence at higher rates than the average American woman. Why is that? A history of displacement, colonization and violence I am sure have something to do with it, along ...

Who’s allowed to reproduce?

Radical Doula has an important post on the flipside of this debate. As she noted in comments to my previous post on young women being denied tubal ligations,

I think that you will find that for women of color, low income women, or immigrant women, this issue is completely different. Rather than having trouble getting sterilization surgeries, they are being FORCIBLY sterilized.

I completely missed this angle, and really appreciate her bringing it up. Read her whole post here.
Previous Feministing posts on forced sterilization are here, here, and here.

Radical Doula has an important post on the flipside of this debate. As she noted in comments to my previous post on young women being denied tubal ligations,

I think that you will find that for ...

The sponge is back!


The Today sponge, now put out by Synova Healthcare Group, is back on the market. And it has a new “look.”

The new package is meant to have a more modern look: instead of a pink flower and a conservative-looking typeface, the box has drawings of hip-looking women, playful typography, and colors that Synova officials call “fuchsia and wine.”
Barry Schmader, executive vice president and creative director of Synova’s advertising agency, Dudnyk, of Horsham, Pa., said the new colors and graphics were chosen to create “high impact”? and to help the Today Sponge compete on store shelves, especially with condoms. “We need to stand out on the contraceptive shelf space and compete for presence,” he said.
The ...


The Today sponge, now put out by Synova Healthcare Group, is back on the market. And it has a new “look.”

The new package is meant to have a more modern look: instead of ...

Dead women, furries and rehab: The pinnacle of fashion


Insanity is the new black!
To further touch upon Vanessa’s question about why the media (and everyone these days) seems so obsessed with celebrity downfall, I enter into evidence the above spread from Vogue Italia. It’s crazy chic! Complete with a model buzzing her hair off a la Britney. Charming.
But that’s not all, folks! In related women-in-distress-are-fashionable news, W magazine ups the ante: dead models posing with furries!

I think Amanda said it best in a recent IM conversation: “I can’t wait until fashion is about trotting out women in fancy clothes and shooting them dead on the runway–so daring!”


Insanity is the new black!
To further touch upon Vanessa’s question about why the media (and everyone these days) seems so obsessed with celebrity downfall, I enter into evidence the above spread from Vogue ...

Hillary and cleavage and hair, oh my!


Okay, I think this poster is just great. It’s a poster used when Clinton was speaking at the National Beauty Culturists’ League Convention recently. Being judged on your hair (or supposed cleavage) is completely crappy. Being cheeky about it is awesome. Kudos.
Speaking of cleave, Ann will be on CNN tonight talking about the ridiculousness that is this article. We’ll give you the details as soon we have them so you can tune in!
Via Swampland.
UPDATE: The segment will air as part of the Situation Room on CNN between 5-6pm EDT (and will repeat from 7-8pm).


Okay, I think this poster is just great. It’s a poster used when Clinton was speaking at the National Beauty Culturists’ League Convention recently. Being judged on your hair (or supposed cleavage) ...

The obsession with Hollywood’s “bad” girls

The Observer had a piece yesterday on the media’s obsession with the “Bad Girls of Hollywood,” and questions why everyone seems to get off on watching these irritating rich, white women get in trouble.
While an obvious answer to this is that it’s entertaining to see these overly privileged bad gals like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan who think they can get away with anything not only be treated as criminals just as any one of us would, but also have overwhelming flaws and personal problems. (In other words, rich life ain’t all that grand.)
But is there more to it? And what is so appealing about famous women’s demise rather than the lads? ‘We have ...

The Observer had a piece yesterday on the media’s obsession with the “Bad Girls of Hollywood,” and questions why everyone seems to get off on watching these irritating rich, white women get in trouble.
While an ...

Who’s your favorite writer?

This post from Amanda about Natalie Angier reminded me of how much I frigging love Angier’s Woman: An Intimate Geography. She’s just such an amazing writer. (The non-fiction skill of Angier with the fiction stylings of Flannery O’Connor would be my dream author hybrid.)
So dear readers, who’s your favorite writer?

This post from Amanda about Natalie Angier reminded me of how much I frigging love Angier’s Woman: An Intimate Geography. She’s just such an amazing writer. (The non-fiction skill of Angier with the ...

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