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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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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 [...]

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 [...]

The great children’s book author Maurice Sendak has passed away at 83.  Here is a great clip of him doing an interview with Stephen Colbert (must watch). And a video of Obama reading Where the Wild Things Are to a group of children at the White House. His stuff mattered. A great piece from Jessica on Adam Yauch’s aka [...]

File under:  we can’t make this shit up . Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson believes that the worst thing to happen in modern society is that women were given the right to vote. Additional important information provided by this genius: Women are sluts (Limbaugh was right) and women are now out of control with power, so much power–vaginal [...]

Vanessa mentioned yesterday that Kansas passed a bill that forces doctors to lie to their patients if they think the treatment they might provide would hurt the health of a fetus. This same bill holds another provision yet to be seen in the fight against abortion– it prohibits patients from deducting the cost of abortion or any [...]

While the Obama administration continues to flip-flop on the question of same-sex marrage, North Carolina gives us good reminder why we are in desperate need of leaders that take a stand on supporting full rights same-sex couples. North Carolina is slated to vote on an amendment that would essentially ban same-sex marriage along with civil [...]

Stephen King says he’ll pay more in taxes and other rich people should too. Dan Savage learned that fighting facts with fiction, or rather, highlighting Christian hypocrisy, makes you a bully. In light of VAWA reauthorization –let’s not forget the role the economy has on domestic violence rates. On the relationship of homophobia and being gay. Those kids that walked out in [...]

Good news from Texas–a judge in Texas has stopped the state from banning Planned Parenthood from participating in the state’s Women’s Health Program. This means Planned Parenthood will continue to receive much needed state funding to provide health care services to low income women in Texas. The bill was pushed by Republican legislators that were responding to constituents that [...]

I have been heartened by the substantive conversation happening in thought leadership publications about the plight of women in predominantly Arab and Muslim nations. Referring to Muslim women as people with desires, agency, needs and destinies is a new direction in how “the West” has ever talked about the real lives of women within these cultural contexts. [...]

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of HHS has a new report out highlighting significant disparities in access to healthcare for trans people.  The study writes, “Too often, policymakers, service providers, the media, and society at large have dismissed or discounted the needs of transgender and gender non-conforming people in their communities, and a paucity of [...]

Feminist super hero Maya Dusenbery–feeding baby lambs in her down time. This weekend was Feministing contributor  Maya’s birthday. Maya is a mega-badass that continues to not only bring the quality feminist content –but she also puts together our Weekly Feminist Reader , manages our social medias , and puts out our newsletter (sign up for it—->). She plays a really important role in keeping Feministing [...]

As we’ve noted before, Scott Walker joined the ranks of some of the countries most anti-choice leaders after signing the Coercive and Web Cam Abortion Prevention Act last month–a bill that restricts the ability for abortion providers to render non-surgical abortions. And a bill that managed to put “web cam” in the title. This bill went into [...]

The chief of ASME responds to the editors of Mojo about the lack of women nominated for awesome journalism.

How to close the wage gap in 7 easy steps.

I love Azealia Banks.

I wrote a piece at the Prospect about trans voices, feminism and Adrienne Rich.

Mississippi only has one abortion clinic, in the whole state, and that clinic is now at threat of being shut down with the signing of what reproductive rights activists call a TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers)  law. Under these laws, states come up with bogus regulations for clinics to have to meet or they [...]