It's Official: Your Birth Control Will Be Fully Covered(via @Jezebel)
Here’s a rare bit of excellent news: The Department of Health and Human Services has signed off on recommendations to include contraception in preventative care.
Ladies, Women, Grrrls
In honor of ladies, women, grrrls, femininjas, cowgirls, spacegirls, feminists, bluestockings, whores, angels, scientists, outsiders, funnywomen, journeywomen, smartypants, hellions, jezebels, artists, suffragists, athletes, mothers, superstars, rock stars, activists, nerds, ringleaders, instigators, daughters. For everygrrrl, everywhere.
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2011-08-01
Source: jezebel.com
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2011-07-28
We shall punish the terrorist, and this will be his punishment: more democracy, more tolerance, more generosity.
-Mayor of Oslo
— http://blog.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/norway-democratic-defiance-amid-devastation/
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2011-07-26
http://diane-arbus-photography.com/
At a time when the nation was trying to bury its flaws and ignore its deviants—the 1950s and 1960s—portrait photographer Diane Arbus captured and recorded outsider, freaky, quirky America. And now, when certain circles idealize the past and homogeneity is at a premium once again, her work reminds me that the U.S. was never as “normal” as some are inclined to insist it was.
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2011-07-25
A feminist and labor bluegrass singer, Hazel Dickens is one overlooked “woman in music.”
Her life was one of resistance.
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Here’s to the history and legacy of cultural work in the throes of the good fight.
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2011-07-23
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2011-07-22
VIVA ZAPATA!
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2011-07-19
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2011-07-18
http://isabelwilkerson.com/
The Warmth of Other Suns, a history of the Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, just might be the best nonfiction book I’ve ever read. Ever. And I’m only on page 25 or so.
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2011-07-15
