how did i miss this? Water On the Moon
growing up i would have found this totally rad. now it's mostly unsettling, for various reasons ( Read more... )

long time no update, i know. i've been busy, you know, with stuff. school type stuff mostly. i'll write about it later. i was just reading a post on thesexist (a blog i started reading because i was living in dc and they are in dc, but it's fun and smart enough to keep reading now) about "raping by accident". the writer analogizes to the ( Read more... )

SCIENCE: U R DOIN IT WRONG

won't someone please confirm that this is totally idiotic?  please read the bottom section ("the studies") and let me know if your critical-thinking hackles are raised.

eta: please don't ask why i was reading that. ok, i'll tell you - i was looking for info on IUDs and the ryan center.  instead i got an ill-informed ( Read more... )

btw, IMPORTANT NEWS: the past two weeks Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic has come under siege by an influx of protesters and harrassers, who have responded to a call by anti-choice spokespeople to travel to Nebraska and make Carhart the next Dr. Tiller. By saying this I don't mean to imply a gruesome comparison -- I admit that none of the "big names" in ( Read more... )

cannot believe i'm reading this.  i want to vomit.  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson/single

whenever i'm unemployed i suddenly become MUCH more knowledgeable about the internets!

NSFW assignment: google "zentai" and "vacbed".

new blogger-who-made-me-depressed-this-week: an aid worker who writes lists of ways he's made things worse, and illustrates how ngo pay distribution is fucked (both within and among).  well, yeah.  i know.  that's ( Read more... )

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clipped from a community post on feministing, "We Choose Humanity: An Abortion Provider's Call to Action"  by elizabeth barnes, who's a clinic director in philly:

I have heard many times that the risk of violence comes with the territory of being an abortion provider. I do not accept this. I will live with it, but I do not accept that this risk ( Read more... )

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ughhhh