Tag Archives: Personal Is Political
Steven Tyler, Julia Holcomb, and abortion remorse as political fodder
Anti-choicers are practically drooling over the testimony of Julia Holcomb, Steven Tyler’s ex-girlfriend from her teenage years, who this week is speaking out about her choice to abort after becoming pregnant by Tyler many years ago — and her subsequent remorse and religious awakening. Complete with a near-death experience, her story is as heartbreaking as [...]
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Quick hit: Back the fuck off
From the blog Speaker’s Corner, whose creator is also responsible for the brilliant Keep Your Boehner Out of My Uterus, comes this heartbreaking story of a woman who terminated a intended and very-much-wanted pregnancy when she discovered that the fetus had dire developmental problems. We went home. I called my parents. We were supposed to [...]
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On Alexandra Wallace, incivility, and responding to hate speech
On Tuesday we covered the racist rant by a white UCLA student named Alexandra Wallace that has been making the rounds–and, I think, offering some lessons about the challenges of responding to ignorant and hateful speech. As Jos noted, the Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA offered excellent suggestions for how to respond to the video [...]
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Death, taxes, heartbreak
I got my heart broken last week. Badly. Worse than it’s ever been broken in my admittedly short life. I’m not even really sure how I’m writing this, because I’ve spent the week in a fog of tears and panic and anguish and shock. I’ve barely been functional, I’ve barely been coherent. The morning after [...]
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The personal is political: princess parties