By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet: Roe v Wade anniversary edition

By Chloe and Sesali

You must read Andrea Grimes’s amazing article about how damn hard it now is to get an abortion in Texas, and then watch this video about Nuestro Texas, and how they’re fighting to keep abortion accessible for the people of the Rio Grande Valley.

What kinds of stories are we telling about abortion?

At EBONY, read Zerlina on the anniversary of Roe.

Clinic protesters are not “counsellors” – they’re bullies.

“Abortion is not a right if it is too expensive to afford.”

The Hyde Amendment is almost as old as Roe, and nearly four decades later, it is still making low-income women’s lives harder.

A look inside Missouri’s last abortion clinic.

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Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

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