By Jessica • 16 years ago

They’re back! Feministing magnetic poetry…


If you want to buy one (they’re $10 each), please click on the donate button and put “Magnet” in the subject line…don’t worry, we’ll have an easier payment method in the new year.
Have a great night everyone, and happy-almost-New Year!


If you want to buy one (they’re $10 each), please click on the donate button and put “Magnet” in the subject line…don’t worry, we’ll have an easier payment method in the new year.
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By Jessica • 16 years ago

Should children stay with their moms…in prison?

The New York Times reports today on a Mexico City policy that mandates children born in prison stay with their mothers until they’re 6 years-old–rather than being raised by relatives or foster parents.

Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside the prison with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide. Mothers dressed in prison blue, many with tattoos, carry babies on their hips around the exercise yard. Others lead toddlers and kindergartners by the hand, play with them in the dust or bounce them on their knees on prison benches.
…A debate continues among Mexican academics over whether spending one’s early years in a jail causes mental problems later in ...

The New York Times reports today on a Mexico City policy that mandates children born in prison stay with their mothers until they’re 6 years-old–rather than being raised by relatives or foster parents.

Fifty-three children under the ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Monday Monty Blogging (Multi-dog edition)


Monty was very happy to be home after spending a week in the country (Woodstock muddiness above), especially since he got to play with his bestest friend Phoebe the Pug. Check out their reunion after the jump. Also making a cameo after the jump is Teddy, who kept me company while I was in Santa Rosa over the holidays.


Monty was very happy to be home after spending a week in the country (Woodstock muddiness above), especially since he got to play with his bestest friend Phoebe the Pug. Check out their reunion ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Quick Hit(s): Some year end links


Dahlia Lithwick has the Bush administration’s 10 dumbest legal arguments of the year.
ColorLines conducted a national investigation of fatal police shootings in America’s 10 largest cities. The findings will probably not surprise you.
Rebecca Traister recounts the year in sex.
Sudy delves into the not-always-pleasant world of feminist blog comments.
The New York Times Magazine‘s latest is the “The Lives They Lived” issue. If anything, read it for the piece on blogger Steve Gilliard who passed away this year.
And Hoyden About Town is collecting nominations for the best feminist blog posts of the year…go put your two cents in before tomorrow’s deadline.


Dahlia Lithwick has the Bush administration’s 10 dumbest legal arguments of the year.
ColorLines conducted a national investigation of fatal police shootings in America’s 10 largest cities. The findings will probably not surprise ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

This is not an invitation to rape me

Cara points us to this great anti-rape campaign from several years back which was put out by Peace Over Violence. Like Cara, my only criticism would be that most of the ads seem to feature white women, but the messages are right on point.
Check out a few more below the jump and on the site.
Cara points us to this great anti-rape campaign from several years back which was put out by Peace Over Violence. Like Cara, my only criticism would be that most of the ads seem ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Katha Pollitt asks WTF is up at the New York Times.
What the word “Latina” means online.
Is the Pill going over-the-counter in the UK?
Yet another report confirms that even minimal sex ed is better than abstinence-only.
The man accused of slipping his girlfriend the abortion pill against her will has jumped bond.
Students protest the birth control price hike.
Police arrested two men in connection with the Albuquerque clinic arson. One of the men reportedly wanted to burn down the clinic because his girlfriend had scheduled an abortion there.
A woman is threatened with discharge from the Air Force for wearing her hair in cornrows.
Womens eNews counts down ...

Katha Pollitt asks WTF is up at the New York Times.
What the word “Latina” means online.
Is the Pill going over-the-counter in the UK?
Yet another report confirms that even minimal sex ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Your weekend send off (feel good edition)

Sorry we’re a little light on the posting, I’m still a bit jet lagged and catching up on emails. Have a great weekend everyone, and enjoy a little bit of the most crush-worthy boy band ever. (Ad Rock…swoon.)

Sorry we’re a little light on the posting, I’m still a bit jet lagged and catching up on emails. Have a great weekend everyone, and enjoy a little bit of the most crush-worthy boy band ever. ...

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