Meanwhile a woman is being held in Rikers without bail because she sat on the floor in a public office.
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She is! And menstrual extraction is making a comeback in certain circles, because it’s still technically not classified as an abortion procedure, as long as a pregnancy isn’t confirmed. It’s terrifying, but this may well be our new normal soon, if Roe falls, and we must ALL prepare for that potentiality...
Perform your own abortion, wut?? I know that’s a thing but damn, it boggles the mind. Such a hot button issue, abortion, always has been, always will be. My dad’s mother died after an illegal back alley abortion during the depression. Women have always had abortions and always will, why can’t we just have sovereignty…
Talk about big damn heroes.
There’s a whole conservative movement out there counting on you not knowing this history, and you not knowing this history is why we have soooo many young people thinking that abortion is a horrible thing that selfish women do to kill babies. I’m so glad you know this now and hope you get ten friends to read this.
As I read this I am reminded of the Jane Collective which came later:
I read the Slate article when it came out. I was born in 1966 so was a teenager in the early 1980s. I did not know this history. It is so important.
There is nothing feminist about either Queen. They both operated on a sense of divine rightness to rule. Not any democratic or republican ideals, even if somewhat foisted on them by limitations of their court officials or Parliaments or previous compacts, like the Magna Carta.
As an English History major, I will probably skip this. The Tudors on Showtime was bad enough, not to mention how bad Reign was on the CW. I just wish the makers of this film stuck to the facts, since the real stories of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots are compelling enough.
When my grade 2 class went on a trip to the school library for the first time, the librarian asked if anyone in the class could do the splits. One girl could, and demonstrated for us. The librarian told us that leaving a book open and face down all day is the same as asking a person to do the splits all day. This was…
When I was on maternity leave, I was reading “Where the Heart Is.” My husband decided the book was making me too depressed (thanks Oprah!), so he HID IT FROM ME before he went to work. I should have divorced him then. This was 22 years ago, and it still stands out in my memory as the first of many disrespectful things…
I’m laughing at the idea that her “in conversation with” is somehow different than “an exact rip-off of”.
Yeah, that’s whats so insane to me. This isn’t like some college freshman in an intro to writing class they don’t give a shit about plagiarizing something just to pass a class they had no interest in taking in the first place. The world of published/lauded poets is very fucking small. I’m almost impressed that this…
Someone plagiarized from my college paper for his MA! Six years later I finally called his school and confronted him via email. The bastard threatened to sue me after they revoked his masters!
Sampling, man.
I got my BA and MA in writing and I could NOT believe how many people plagiarized work in the time I was there, most of whom totally got busted. It was embarrassing enough when people stole from famous novelists but a year after I graduated, someone turned in a paper I WROTE with like one word in every sentence…
Thoughts and prayers, Roy.
That’s interesting. I am going to view my parents as disengaging as them moving left (they are both 60). Now that you mention it, my grandparents in their 80s who have been Republican probably forever didn’t vote for the first time in both their lives this election because they are religious and don’t trust Trump…
Oh, I see the “pro-life” Catholics at it again. They are such frigging hypocrites. I left the Catholic Church long ago. The all male hierarchy is despicable.