Gone Gamer
Art by Austin Smith If you haven’t spent the last two months panic-stricken by media reports that Ebola will spread from Dallas to kill us all, you might have come across the scandal known as...
View ArticleActivists Protest Bill Targeting Pregnant Minors
By Laila Khalili “Graciela’s family lived in a tiny town—her step-father worked for the police department and everyone knew everyone. Her step-father was physically abusive to both Graciela, her mother...
View ArticleEACH Woman Act Aims to Restore Access to Abortion
By Laila Khalili Photo by John Nelson, courtesy of All* Above All Last week, Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Diana DeGette (D-CO), proposed the groundbreaking Equal...
View ArticleTowards a New Theory of Masculinity & Violence
Just across the Rio Grande from El Paso lies Ciudad Juarez, the border town made infamous for the rash of brutal femicides — murders of women — that has claimed hundreds of lives over the past 20...
View ArticleCelebrating Abortion Providers, Today and Every Day
This letter was originally posted on the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity blog and republished here with permission. An Open Letter to Abortion Providers Today is Abortion Provider Appreciation...
View ArticleHow to Use a Public Restroom
As you’ve likely heard by now, there is a heated national debate over who should and should not be allowed to use public bathrooms. Politicians like North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and Texas...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court is About to Rule on a Major Abortion Case
Next week, the Supreme Court is set to deliver a ruling on its biggest abortion case in decades, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which could potentially determine the future of abortion access...
View ArticleSupreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions
This morning, the Supreme Court overturned two key provisions of a Texas anti-abortion law from 2013, declaring that they posed an undue burden on Texans trying to access abortion care and that the law...
View ArticleWhat Does Full Equality for Women Really Look Like?
Every year on August 26, we commemorate the day in 1920 that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was signed into law and women were finally granted the right to vote. Of course, it wouldn’t be...
View ArticleUH Sells New Stadium Naming Rights to Front Group For...
When Dow Chemical (then Union Carbide) leaked a cloud of pesticide gas on the night of December 2-3, 1984, more than 500,000 people were exposed to the toxic chemical. Like little bugs in their sleep....
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