Whether you loved or hated Bridesmaids, Indisputable Feminist Wisdom posits that Kristen Wiig is the best ever . She’s smart, funny as hell, and not afraid to shy away from real conversations about what it’s like to be a woman in what can be a truly– let’s face it– sexist a$$ industry. Haliegh Collins over on Policy Mic even [...]

Last Wednesday, House Republicans stooped to a new low by throwing their support behind a ridiculous, callous and watered down version of the Violence Against Women Act . As we detailed last week, the heavily edited H.R. 4970 now moves backward on VAWA reauthorization, with the version that the House passed actually denying protection of undocumented immigrants, Native/indigenous people [...]

The best thing on the internet today.

The worst–a man is deported and while trying to get back to his family dies in the Arizona desert, leaving behind 5 children.

Are men who have stay-at-home wives more sexist in the workplace?

In a rather lenient sentencing, a New Jersey judge sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail also suggesting that he not be deported. This is a probationary sentence for Ravi, who earlier this year was convicted of bias intimidation and a handful of other hate crimes for bullying his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi. Why did [...]

OK, maybe not exactly what Reince Priebus, RNC chairman, said over the weekend on CNN–but he did essentially blame the Obama administration for calling out a Super PAC plan proposing race-baiting. According to Priebus, the Obama team wants to focus on this instead of the real questions about his leadership at hand. Well, if that is the focus [...]

The NAACP voted to make the wise decision to join the bandwagon and get on the right side of history by  publicly endorsing same-sex marriage. Not only is the right decision for them (because it’s just the right thing to do!), in terms of being an organization committed to advancing the rights of disenfranchised people–but it is [...]

Maya interviews Lizz Winstead on her new book over at Mother Jones.

Shakesville with more on white fear of brown babies.

Are women underrepresented in HIV research?

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We deal with a lot of issues related to motherhood on the blog, and in feminism writ large: paid maternal leave, work/life balance, stay-at-home moms, single moms, mother’s day, breastfeeding. And the list goes on. But an aspect of motherhood that is sometimes overlooked in feminist spaces is maternal death, when a woman dies in pregnancy [...]

These days, there’s a fairly broad consensus– among public health advocates,  educators, parents, the media, and the porn industry – that condoms are GOOD. Whether one is penis-possessing or just along for the ride, most of us have been told to “wrap it up” since before we were performing acts that required us to do so. So why [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zufp5zVN86I The beautiful and influential queen of disco, Donna Summer passed away today at 63 . Is it really  straight marriage that has evolved? Cautionary words from Chloe about how Australia must not follow the US in it’s assault on repro rights. On this week’s Opinionated, Amanda and I talk about that horrible article in the NYTimes about black women and [...]

(Spotted by my friend Karlos Gauna Schmeider from the Center for Media Justice –two headlines, backwards ideology and the new moment on race in the US) That inevitable moment that conservative Americans have been dreading is finally here. According to census data births of white babies has been surpassed by brown babies. The AP reports that for the first [...]

Let’s jump right on in, shall we? I’ve long said that people need to keep a close watch on their state legislature.  I’m a Missourian and my state Assembly meets for five months each year. That means five months of watching the Republicans who control both the House and Senate file bills to restrict access [...]

House Republicans have stooped low in their all-out war on women by turning an issue that has never been bipartisan–that violence against women is a bad thing–into a partisan one voting 222-206 in support of a ridiculous, callous and watered down version of the Violence Against Women Act . As Vanessa noted Tuesday, it was slated to [...]

Pic of the day. (Via) A remarkable speech from 1970 on gay rights by Black Panthers co-founder Huey Newton. Starting tomorrow, Amplify Your Voice is hosting an  International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia Blogathon. Samhita at The American Prospect on marrying yourself . Kelley at the community blog talks about the abysmally antiquated and sexist selection of online games for [...]

An awesome and innovative campaign by Mama Hope to break stereotypes and get important work done in the process.

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Via Upworthy.

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved their version of the Violence Against Women Act, which compared to current Senate-approved provisions in the bill which would include protections for LGBTQ folks and immigrants, is just not a good look:

The House Judiciary Committee last week approved its version of the reauthorization bill, which not only omits improvements the [...]

In the closest the state has come to legalizing civil unions, a special session in Colorado’s legislature effectively killed a bill that would have granted the right to same-sex couples before it even reached the House floor :

A measure allowing same-sex civil unions that prompted Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to call a special session after Republicans killed it last [...]

http://youtu.be/tmrf0ljbD6w Your reading and thinking about Obama’s marriage equality affirmation isn’t complete until you’ve heard Jay Smooth’s take. In North Carolina, where marriage equality was just voted down this week, a lesbian has been arrested for seeking a marriage license . A Mothers’ Day message from Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother. I’m proud to be The Line Campaign ’s “Badass [...]

Yesterday, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Nancy Keenan, announced that she will be stepping down at the end of the year. Sarah Kliff at the Washington Post reported: The 60-year-old Keenan said she is leaving out of concern for the future of the pro-choice movement — and thinks she could be holding it back. In recent years, [...]