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By polkadotjunkie • 13 years ago

They Know My Name

Yesterday was abortion provider appreciation day. Yesterday was also day-two of 40 Days for Life (link to wikipedia, because I don’t want to give the official page any hits). Yesterday, I spent my morning at a woman’s health clinic volunteering as an escort.

By the time I arrived at 8:30 in the morning there was already about ten anti-choicer’s there. Images of the Virgin Mary, fetus dolls, signs, prayer beads. They tried to hand me a pamphlet as I made my way to the clinic. I parked on the street, so as to not allow them to park on the street directly in front of the clinic- their reinforcements would have to at least park down the block. They take shifts, you know, 7a to 7p is a long day. There was a woman in the second group who was actually annoyed she couldn’t park in the clinic parking lot. Seriously.

There was two of us there yesterday. At one point there was about thirty of them. I thought I was going to have a hard time ignoring them. I thought I was going to flip out. I did not, and I am quite proud of myself, considering they know my name.

They know my name.

They over heard me introduce myself to a clinic staff member, and they caught my name. And they used it, fuckers.

“Ariana, why do you support murder?” “Ariana, you are working for evil.” “Ariana, you are killing babies, innocent babies, who ...
By polkadotjunkie • 13 years ago

An Open Letter to Planned Parenthood

I will always stand with you. Why? Because you have always stood for my friends and I. You have provided us with over ten years of resources when nobody else would. You have given us information about our bodies and in turn given us the tools to respect ourselves while we learned to find and get comfortable in our own skin.

Planned Parenthood, you have asked me uncomfortable questions from time to time, but you were the only one who would. And I have to thank you for not judging me. You only asked those questions because you wanted to help. You only asked questions because you knew I needed to acknowledge things about myself.

Planned Parenthood, you have never told me ...

I will always stand with you. Why? Because you have always stood for my friends and I. You have provided us with over ten years of resources when nobody else would. You have given us information about ...
By polkadotjunkie • 13 years ago

Thank You.

Yesterday, Jessica Valenti of Feministing said her official farewell to the site. It feels so bittersweet, yet I do not know her personally.

My “connection” with Jessica Valenti goes to one of the first Women’s Studies classes I had a few semesters ago where “Full Frontal Feminism” was the first assigned reading. I bought the book online before the semester started not really intending to read it early. When it arrived I opened it to scan it and ended up reading the entire thing right then and there.

“I’m not a feminist, but…” was completely eradicated from my vocabulary and the Feminist Badassery I had in me my entire life finally found the outlet. It was my “ah-ha!” moment. ...

Yesterday, Jessica Valenti of Feministing said her official farewell to the site. It feels so bittersweet, yet I do not know her personally.

My “connection” with Jessica Valenti goes to one of the first Women’s Studies classes I ...