http://youtu.be/QDz-rSVj_e4
Happy birthday, Etta James.
Good news: Domestic violence screenings will now be covered under Obamacare.
How the concept of modesty hurts trans and intersex people.
Morocco is planning to change the law that allows rapists to avoid charges if they marry their victims.
NPR erases trans people from the history of Stonewall.
Trans people in Sweden will no longer face forced sterilization in order to legally transition.
Jessica González-Rojas and Lynn Paltrow talk with Bill Moyers about the current state of reproductive rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt was “FDR’s most important, and most progressive, advisor.”
A must-read by Rebecca Solnit on violence against women.
“The rule is that if you are a woman in America, you want nothing quite so much as you want to be a little smaller. The rule is you are always trying to lose.”
A letter from a 11-year-old trans girl in response to Obama’s inauguration speech.
In a malpractice case, a Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people. Wait, which is it?
Fathers’ sexist views may affect their daughters’ career ambitions.
Alyssa on the gender gap at Sundance this year.
What have you been reading/writing/watching/learning this week?
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I wrote Donut of Defiance on employee weight loss programs, pressure, and resentment. And, of course, donuts.
I’m also looking for guest bloggers.
So I read this a few months ago, but you guys should definitely check out an article by Georgetown Law Professors Naomi Mezey and Cornelia Pillard entitled “Against the New Maternalism.” The article is all about how the new maternalism, as embodied by mommy blogs and mamma grizzlies and the like, can actually be harmful to gender eqaulity. It is an academic paper, but I think it is really accessible (although, full disclosure, I am a law student). Totally worth the read!
I’ve been seething about Israel giving depo-provera shots to Ethiopian women without their knowledge or consent: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519
And I complained about it here: http://emmawolf.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/eugenics-israeli-style-the-right-to-exist/
Correction: Obamacare covers DV screenings if you are a) under 65 and b) are counted as a woman.