Amnesty’s Newest Domestic Violence Awareness Billboard is First to Respond to People Looking at It
Click here for larger image Amnesty International’s newest billboard to raise awareness about the issue of domestic violence is the first billboard in the world to to react when people look at it, by an eye tracking camera that registers when someone looks directly at the poster. The billboard was created to let people directly experience how domestic violence is hidden from view of the public. It is meant to motivate people to look more closely in the future and help prevent READ MORE »
Healing Through Creativity Calls for Artists, Performers & Presenters
Healing Through Creativity has begun accepting submissions from artists, performers, and presenters for their week-long October art festival. From Healing Through Creativity: Trauma Survivors and Supporters of Survivors of Trauma are invited to share art, music, writing, poetry and other creative forms at the Healing Through Creativity Festival. When: October 17-24 2009 Where: Heart of Virginia Foundation Center for Integrated Arts Grandin Gardens, 1731 Grandin Rd, Roanoke, Virginia The READ MORE »
The Feminist Majority Foundation Works to Expose Crisis Pregnancy Centers
This Spring, the Feminist Majority Foundation has worked to expose fake clinics, which are known publicly as “crisis pregnancy centers.” The campaign has two goals: to warn women, especially students, about the fake clinics in their communities and to let the government know that deception on the public dime has got to stop. I used to live in a large city whose downtown area is an entire college campus. Because I grew up and lived in this city next door to a college campus, I READ MORE »
The New Christian Attempt to Convert–”It’s Not a Cult”
A few days ago, the boyfriend and I were heading into a store. As we got out of the car, the moment the boyfriend closed the car door, a woman appeared in front of him as if out of nowhere and yes, it was super creepy. And as if that was not creepy enough, she was carrying pamphlets. Now the difference between me and the boyfriend is that while he isn’t religious and has no belief in a higher power, heaven, hell, or the like (but still refuses to call himself an atheist), he is still READ MORE »
Warning: Anti-Choicers Hijack the Internet
I know I haven’t been blogging very much this past week, which is due to the fact that I’ve been working pretty much every chance I get and I have also been experiencing flareups with a medical condition that I have that has caused me to sleep more than 15 hours every day, which I will address in an upcoming post. So because I haven’t been around that often, that also means that I have not had the chance to moderate comments and I swear the anti-choice population waits READ MORE »
Dr. LeRoy Carhart Steps In to Fill Void After Dr. George Tiller’s Death & Clinic Closing
News that The Women’s Health Care Services clinic, the clinic that Dr. George Tiller ended up giving his life for, will remain closed broke a few days ago, and while I have not published the news and my opinion on the topic, not a day has gone by where I have not thought about it. Cara over at Feministe shares my exact sentiments on the issue. We can’t blame Dr. Tiller’s family for their decision to keep the doors of the clinic closed and we wouldn’t have been able to READ MORE »
Scott Roeder & Terrorism Buzzword Hypocrisy
Scott Roeder, the man convicted of assassinating Dr. George Tiller for political and religious reasons, thus making his crime an act of domestic terrorism, and he a domestic terrorist, released a statement to the Associated Press on June 7, saying: “I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.” So to get this straight, A terrorist has publicly stated that additional acts of terrorism are scheduled to be perpetrated READ MORE »
Keith Olbermann on How FOX News Incited the Assassinated of Dr. George Tiller
Keith Olbermann always seems to hit the nail on the head. I’m a little late in posting this, but I just saw it and had to share. Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, I have stated that anti-choice organizations and anti-choice media outlets are indeed to blame for the murder of Dr. Tiller and no matter how many times these organizations, media outlets, spokespeople, and news commentators make public statements to the contrary, we have seen them in action and we have seen the READ MORE »
For The National Review Sotomayor Is The Wise Latina Buddhist
Okay, this latest image sent my WTF meter right off. Seriously, how much longer are white men going to display their ignorance and hatred to promote their undeserved privilege? It started with Sotomayor the piñata because apparently the fact that she is Puerto Rican and not Mexican is irrelevant. Now we have Sotomayor the Buddhist. When it comes to creating WOC as “other” any social construction will do, as our cultures and religions clearly have no individualized READ MORE »
I Never Liked that Vase Anyway
Every month I look forward to reading the ‘Boo Ya It’s Period Time’ posts over at Womanist Musings. They always fill me with an overwhelmingly sense of pride in my femininity. They remind me of why I am a vagina-loving, menstruation-loving feminist. They remind me of how beautiful yet complex our bodies are. Most of all, they remind me of what I wish I could feel like approximately four days before my period begins. Don’t get me wrong, I am a body-loving, READ MORE »
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