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Another gay teenager takes his own life after being bullied at his middle school. Rest in peace Asher.

Have you taken action yet to keep Washington from banning abortion coverage for folks with pre-exisiting conditions?

Despite efforts by the GOP to woe woo Latino voters, it isn’t working. Shocking that being anti-immigrant doesn’t win over a primarily immigrant group.

A transgender teen was voted Homecoming King by his classmates and then the school revoked the title because he’s was still enrolled in school as female. WTF?

An Ontario court struck down a Canadian law criminalizing sex work because of the risk those laws pose to sex workers and their safety.

The HIV rate for gay ...

Another gay teenager takes his own life after being bullied at his middle school. Rest in peace Asher.

Have you taken action yet to keep Washington from banning abortion coverage for folks with pre-exisiting conditions?

Despite efforts ...

Answering fan mail and sexual assault – what’s the connection, again?

Australian rugby player Brett Stewart has been charged with sexual assault and indecent assault of a 17-year-old girl, leading to his suspension from the league. The case is currently in court, and this week the manager of Stewart’s club took to the stand to defend him. The Sydney Morning Herald reports:

Ms Lees, who has worked at the club for 12 years, said she had daily contact with the players.

When it came to answering fans’ correspondence, Stewart took more time than any other player to respond to every fan, she said.

“He’s the most consistent out of all of our players; he makes the effort every week.”

Not all players responded personally to ...

Australian rugby player Brett Stewart has been charged with sexual assault and indecent assault of a 17-year-old girl, leading to his suspension from the league. The case is currently in court, and this week the manager ...

Campus News Round-Up

Before we get started, last week I mentioned a Senate Judicial Hearing on rape cases in the USA. Amanda Hess liveblogged the hearing, so if you didn’t catch it you can check out her summary.

The Georgetown Voice has a really wonderful must-read feature up about four women who were raped or sexually assaulted at Georgetown, and the struggles they faced and still face in recovering from the trauma and dealing with the school’s judicial process. Author Molly Redden deserves a lot of credit for writing such a powerful piece that tackles so many different aspects of the issue, including the troubling fact that Georgetown currently does not have a sexual assault education ...

Before we get started, last week I mentioned a Senate Judicial Hearing on rape cases in the USA. Amanda Hess liveblogged the hearing, so if you didn’t catch it you can check out her summary.

The ...

Drop the i-word

Colorlines has just launched this really important campaign to get folks to stop calling people, and particularly immigrants, “illegal.” I wrote not too long ago about how the AP style book promotes this language.

Watch the video (transcript after the jump) and you’ll be convinced. Then go sign the pledge and do what you can to eliminate anti-immigrant sentiment.

Feministing has signed the pledge. Will you?

Colorlines has just launched this really important campaign to get folks to stop calling people, and particularly immigrants, “illegal.” I wrote not too long ago about how the AP style book promotes this language.

Watch the video ...

On What Makes a School “Dangerous”

The Daily Beast has released it’s second annual list of the “50 Most Dangerous Colleges,” using reported incidents of crime on campus from 2006-2008 (the most recent numbers they had access to). Last year when they did this list, they got very specific about their methodology, and I was really put off by a couple of their decisions. For one thing, this:

[B]ecause the most recent Department of Education data cuts off at the end of 2007, we adjusted each school’s number for the violent crime rate increase or decrease in the local area, as determined by the FBI, between then and the end of 2008, so that they would ...

The Daily Beast has released it’s second annual list of the “50 Most Dangerous Colleges,” using reported incidents of crime on campus from 2006-2008 (the most recent numbers they had access to). ...

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A movement has got to move.

I’m adding my thoughts in response to Susan Faludi’s recent Harper’s article. Courtney began our series yesterday, with this response.

I just got to the end of the piece, and it’s almost impossible to leave it feeling anything but sadness and maybe some anger. For someone who positions herself outside of the waves of feminism (at 51 she says she’s too old for second and third wave and doesn’t clearly align herself with another sector), it’s pretty clear where Faludi stands at the end of the piece. She doesn’t get contemporary feminism (at least, as Courtney points out, the contemporary feminism she analyzes–academic and institutional). She finds it confusing, trite, commercial. She finds it sad.

Her article is like ringing a ...

I’m adding my thoughts in response to Susan Faludi’s recent Harper’s article. Courtney began our series yesterday, with this response.

I just got to the end of the piece, and it’s almost impossible to leave it feeling ...

Birth control breakthroughs on the horizon

Via Kristof of the New York Times and The Daily Report from the National Partnership for Women and Families, this decade promises to be filled with encouraging contraceptive breakthroughs for both men and women.

A quick round-up of what we may be in store for includes:

A vaginal ring that lasts for one year and costs under $10 A hormonal implant for women that can last as long as an IUD and costs $3 Reversible sterilization for men that can be undone by injection Underclothing for men that acts as a long acting contraceptive agent

While these breakthroughs are important because they get us closer to the day when the burden for contraception doesn’t fall on women alone, I can’t help but feel conflicted ...

Via Kristof of the New York Times and The Daily Report from the National Partnership for Women and Families, this decade promises to be filled with encouraging contraceptive breakthroughs for both men and women.

A quick ...

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Superconnect

It’s not often that I read business books, but sometimes it’s fun to dabble in the master’s tools for a moment. Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links is filled with examples of the ways in which relationships make the world go round. It’s a feminist kind of wisdom, really, but applied to a very patriarchal world: international business. (The two authors, Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood, made part of their fortune with an online gambling business for God’s sake.)

In any case, the thesis is pretty intuitive but there were a few interesting surprises. For example, while we all agree that strong links (family, close friends, a partner) are necessary to a healthy ...

It’s not often that I read business books, but sometimes it’s fun to dabble in the master’s tools for a moment. Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links is filled ...

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