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Desperately seeking practical info — please circulate
I work at a public college in a county — Nassau County, NY — that does not recognize domestic partnerships. We at the college are county employees as well as being college employees. (Yes, two bosses....
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The “Voice” of the Affluent, not the Alternative
Like many others, I was saddened to learn that Rachel Kramer Bussel would no longer be writing the sex column, “Lusty Lady,” for the Village Voice. I admire Rachel and I enjoy her writing. When I read...
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Today is “Blog for Choice” Day!
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, and invalidated laws that banned abortions. This is the 34th anniversary of that decision. NARAL Pro Choice America and Bush v. Choice ask...
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Blogging for Choice 2007 – A partial compilation
It was wonderful to read so many “Why I’m pro-choice” posts yesterday! Technorati cataloged more than 150 posts yesterday tagged with “Blog for Choice,” and I’m sure there were many others that used...
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March 8 is Blog Against Sexism Day
In January we blogged for choice. Tomorrow we can blog against sexism. Click on the image for more info! Update: Of course it is also International Women’s Day.
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Our kids are born sexual. Now what do we do?
My mother says I don’t write enough about positive things in this blog, and she’s right. So I’ve decided to start a book review section where I’ll tell you about books I think help to create a healthy...
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Shocking.
Today the US Supreme Court for the first time upheld a nationwide ban on an abortion procedure. The Court ruled on two challenges to the “Partial Birth Abortion Act” of 2003. One challenge was brought...
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More on the Awfulness that is Gonzalez v. Carhart, the first successful...
As if the outcome of the decision weren’t bad enough, there are aspects of the majority opinion that are especially offensive. For example: The Act also recognizes that respect for human life finds an...
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Mind the gap!
Today is Equal Pay Day according to an AFL-CIO email I just received. What they mean is that, on average, a woman needs to work a year and four months to earn what a man earns in one year. That means...
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Wage equality is a queer issue, too!
Yesterday I posted about Equal Pay Day, and the discussion was one that assumed heterosexual marriage as a foundation. But issues of wage inequality, and economic issues in general, are queer issues,...
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My not-collaborative, daughter-only, very late Mother’s Day post
I wanted to write this post with my mother, who was visiting this weekend for, you guessed it, Mother’s Day. But every time we’d start talking about the post we’d end up in a debate about whether the...
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“Do it ourselves” Abortion Reduction Policy
Atul Gawande had a very clear, concise, mostly very smart and only partially problematic op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times about how to reduce the number of abortions in the US (TimesSelect...
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Loving and Marriage
Today is the 40th anniversary of the landmark Loving v. Virginia case, the case that finally declared laws against interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. Many thanks to Rachel Kramer Bussel for...
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Thoughts on Fathers Day
What are you doing for Fathers Day? My partner, a father of five children all adopted or conceived long before I entered the picture, is off sailing for two days on the Schooner Pioneer and enjoying...
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The good news and bad news about the new teen birth rate data
A new study by the Federal Inter-agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics reports that the teen birth rate is at an all time low. The current birth rate for teens between 15-17 in the US according...
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