Tag Archives: Deep Thoughts
Are there alternatives to the failing national reproductive rights organizing model?
TweetMy post last week about how national organizations let abortion rights be used as a pawn in the budget fight has generated some interesting questions. Most important and challenging, I think: so what do we do? What’s the answer? If our current organizing model is failing us, what should we be doing instead? I wish [...]
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In budget fight, pro-choice organizations get played again
TweetThe role of the pro-choice community in the last minute budget deal is a sad one: we were totally used. We have not had a major victory for abortion rights at the federal level since Roe v. Wade. Instead, we’ve been losing since the passage of the Hyde Amendment. Almost 40 years of losing strategy [...]
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I can’t decide if I care about fashion
Tweet Two undeniably fashionable beings, looking fierce and frankly, divine. via Instaboner, via Le Coil. Our very own Courtney Martin has famously described her feminist “click” moment, the moment she knew she was a feminist, as the day she saw Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner give a talk on their new book Manifesta: Young Women, [...]
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The Struggle for Transgender and Genderqueer Legitimacy
Originally posted in Community Blog
TweetAs someone who identifies as genderqueer, I find I struggle most for legitimacy. Not just within society, but within myself. I analyze the way I feel to a large degree, and it still all seems so bizarre sometimes. The last big hurdle we face towards achieving full equality may well be that of gender identity. [...]
Also tagged Analysis, Queer Issues, Transgender Issues Comments closed
What do you mean when you say justice?