Tag Archives: women
Immigration and Women This Week: Mixed Emotions
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. In case you missed it, the news on what it was [...]
Also tagged Activism, culture, hope, Immigration, latina, Racism, Xenophobia Comments closed
When I stay out too late with feminists at the Makers red carpet premiere…
Tweet …and I can barely blog, but I sure can rock some sunnies. Last night I went to the premiere of Makers. Makers is a documentary about the American women’s movement. It’s also a video library that hopes to be the largest video library of women’s stories ever collected. Spending the night hanging out with bad-ass [...]
Why every woman should vote tomorrow
Tweet This is just one of many crucial stats Mother Jones has put together (in poster form) for why the ladies need to GOTV this year. A few more stats: 1 in 4 voting age women is single 60 percent of female voters in swing states say birth control is very important in this election [...]
Also tagged Election, GOTV, Politics, Reproductive Rights Comments closed
Send a copy of Our Bodies Ourselves to every member of Congress
TweetClearly, some of them need it. Seems we have some members of Congress who couldn’t pass seventh grade Biology, and yet, they’re still allowed to write and pass legislation that gets all up in women’s… business. So, the smart people over at Our Bodies, Ourselves have started a campaign to get a copy of their [...]
Also tagged 2012 election, Politics, Women's Health Comments closed
Quote of the Day: State lawmaker calls women “vaginas”