One pregnancy decision is not “more moral” than another. The patient is a good person making a moral decision. #NSFCSummit
— NSFC (@ReproNurses2B) October 25, 2014
Alissa Perucci, PhD, MPH, author of “Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care,” at the 2014 Nursing Students for Choice Activist Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Anonymous asked: Have you seen TIME's "Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?" Poll? ("Feminist" is currently winning at 42%, with a number of AAVE words also listed.)
This is the poll in question.
I, for one, commend TIME for keeping the spirit of Andy Rooney alive and well. Useless, kinda racist rants from curmudgeonly white men have been falling by the wayside, and here’s TIME - a magazine that is, itself, on the way out - to the rescue!
If this looks about right, guys, work on your interpreting skills.
#WCGtoUN members showing love for #MarissaAlexander as they head to Geneva (11/8/14, Chicago)
#TacoOrBeerChallenge wrap-up: you raised $30K for abortion funds!
Congratulations! You rose to the Taco Or Beer Challenge: you ate a taco (or a burrito, or a quesadilla) and/or drank a beer (or a root beer, or a margarita), and you donated to an abortion fund. In fact, you donated $29,836 to local, state, and international abortion funds around the world.
You. Are. Amazing. Can’t wait for ToBC 2015!
Click here to read the full wrap-up at RH Reality Check: http://rhrc.us/1u64Uvz
Gaming Was Never a Safe Space for Women
Gaming was never a boy’s hobby in my family. I have been playing games ever since I could hold a controller steady enough to do so. It wasn’t until high school, when I encountered gamers who weren’t my relatives, that I realized female players were outnumbered.
When I told guys at school I played games, they said I was “not like other girls,” because they saw hobbies like Halo as a masculine trait. I started playing games online with strangers who would ask, based on my female character, if I was really a girl. If I responded truthfully, the other player would start flirting with me, send in-game marriage requests, or demand to know whether I was a “real gamer,” because the idea of a girl knowing how to play games was so foreign.
Or worse, I’d face harassment. If I died during a group mission, I was a bitch. Or I should have been “in the kitchen making a sandwich.”
—Shonte Daniels, in RH Reality Check. Read more here: http://rhrc.us/1uT81si
Sneak peak of the swag for the #1in3 Speakout! Get ready for the first ever live-streamed abortion speakout on November 20th! #1in3Speaks
In the run-up to the Texas gubernatorial election, much hand-wringing was done over the Hispanic lady voter. But it was women like me—married white women, specifically—who failed Wendy Davis—and ourselves, and our families, and Texas families—on Tuesday night.
post-election analysis by Andrea Grimes on RH Reality Check, 11-5-2014
The GOP enjoyed a sweeping victory Tuesday, with Republicans gaining control of the Senate, maintaining control of the House, and winning many key gubernatorial races. However, this should not be taken as a sign that conservatives are suddenly learning to speak to Latinos, people of color, or women in a way they can hear.
On the contrary, exit polls show that white men won the GOP victory yesterday. No amount of money can repackage political platforms that do not represent Latinos’ and Latinas’ concerns about immigration, poverty, education, and reproductive rights into robotic Spanish.
English may not be the first language of many Latinos, but that does not mean that we can’t understand “hispandering” when we see it.
— Juliana Schwartz in her RH Reality Check article Latinos Demand Real Action, Not ‘Hispandering,’ in Exchange for Votes