social justice
Organize Like a Sex Worker: Learning from Worker and Organizer Kate D'Adamo
Hell Is In Poland: Pregnancy, Power and Protest
What's Death Positivity and How Can It Help Us? A Conversation with Sarah Chavez
Use Your Words: The Language We Use to Describe Ourselves Matters
Sexuality in Color: Respectability Politics
What is "respectability politics," and how can we confront it in ourselves?
Sexuality in Color: Beyond MLK
You know about Martin Luther King, but do you know about the unsung heroes of the civil rights era, like Claudette Colvin and Bayard Rustin?
Of SlutWalks, Perfect Storms and Getting Out of the Way
The fact that myself, or Traister or any number of people think errors have been or are being made, or that all of this could be done better or worse doesn't mean we're right. We could be. We could also be wrong. It could be that despite it seeming like this thing or this other way of doing or saying that would have been the better move, that doing a given thing differently would have less impact.
Because yes, it really DOES happen: A thank you to SlutWalks
I want to tell you something very personal about me. Not because I want to. I really don't want to. But I'm going to do it anyway.
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
It's a Powerful Thing
Earlier this week, in the context of another conversation, one of our users at Scarleteen mentioned that her feelings on abortion had changed to a negative when she learned that her mother's pregnancy had been unplanned, and that her mother considered abortion. She said that upset her, because she really liked existing. She did say she was still pro-choice, but her sentiment bothered me all the same. Some of why it bothered me was political, and also about the work that I do and have done. But in thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that the ways it bothered me most were intensely personal.
The truth is, I envy her. A lot. I envy she was able to have a discussion in which her mother made clear she had the right to choose and she chose to remain pregnant and parent her.