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Feministing Year in Review: What Lori Loved

2011 was an exciting year for feminist blogs, with more fresh feminist faces, productive dialogue and crucial reporting than ever before. Feministing was no exception, and while we lost the regular contributions of a few irreplaceable feminist friends of mine, I’m really excited about the new voices that joined the mix this year. It was really hard to choose, but two of my favorite posts from the year centered on false fatherhood and forced motherhood:

Jos deconstructs political paternalism

In my opinion, Jos has never written anything that’s not utterly brilliant. She has a way of presenting heady concepts like paternalism or gender as simple and straightforward, bringing the reader around to her way of seeing things without so much as a strain ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

What We Missed

More anti-choice billboards targeting the black community are up in Atlanta. Their website? Abortioninthehood.com.

A judge has struck down the pregnancy discrimination case against Bloomberg (but will allow some individual lawsuits to move forward).

Planned Parenthood has ceased providing abortions in three cities in Arizona.

You did read what Senator Tom Coburn said about Obama supporting Medicare because as a black man he received “tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs,” right? Right??

A must-read from a couple of days ago: Sarah Jaffe at Feministe on the Verizon workers strike and class warfare. Amanda says we should call it like it is: feudalism.

More anti-choice billboards targeting the black community are up in Atlanta. Their website? Abortioninthehood.com.

A judge has struck down the pregnancy discrimination case against Bloomberg (but will allow some individual lawsuits to move forward).

Planned ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

What We Missed

ACRJ asks women living in Oakland what they think about the anti-choice billboards targeting the black community. (Transcript after jump)

A new report says that criminally reported violence against the LGBT community rose 13% last year — of those who were killed, 70% were minorities and 44% were transgender women.

On Nike’s horrific and unethical labor conditions for their workers in Indonesia — most of whom are young women.

Mitt Romney (smartly) refuses to sign the ridiculously offensive pledge against marriage equality that said children in slavery were better off than those not currently being raised by a nuclear family.

Poland’s proposed abortion ban is being supported by doctors because of the ...

ACRJ asks women living in Oakland what they think about the anti-choice billboards targeting the black community. (Transcript after jump)

A new report says that criminally reported violence against the LGBT community rose 13% ...

By Samhita • 13 years ago

The continuing fight against anti-abortion billboards targeting communities of color.

In the last few months pro-life groups have shown us their keen ability to manipulate any social ill in the service of their agenda to strip and deny women of their right to medical care and reproductive health technologies. The latest in this trend has of course been wedging communities of color, suggesting that the pro-choice movement is actually racist, and abortion is a strategic form of genocide on behalf of women’s rights advocates. This is a rather creative direction to take their racial anxieties, since evidence suggests that communities of color and low income communities are actually better off when they have access to reproductive health information and services. As the fight continues, we have a victory ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Breaking: Racist anti-choice billboards targeting Latinas forced to come down

A press release from the group Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, who has taken responsibility for Los Angeles billboards I wrote about two weeks ago, states that the billboards are being removed. They cite efforts by “pro-abortion” groups as the reason for the removal. They also claim these efforts were motivated by a desire to cover up Planned Parenthood’s targeting of minorities.

We know that these billboards are tantamount to hate speech–targeting women of color as the culprits putting children at harm. It’s interesting that they are making Planned Parenthood the focus of their press release, considering that the organization’s name and identity were completely absent from these billboards. Instead they promote hateful rhetoric and do nothing to support those ...