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Rebel Well: A Starter Survival Guide To A Trumped America
Under a Trump administration many Americans, especially the most vulnerable, are going to hurt and struggle. Many of us need to protect ourselves; all of us need to help protect and care for each other. Here's an extensive guide to help you do both.
Hell Is In Poland: Pregnancy, Power and Protest
Ida Covcin talks about growing up in Poland and what that meant for her ideas about and experiences with sex and possible pregnancy, and participating in the powerful abortion bans that have taken place there over the last few years.
Protest in the Age of COVID-19
We've got a million reasons to be in the streets. But not everyone is okay with — or even able to engage in — active protest right now. But because of COVID-19, many people, especially sick and disabled folks, may be hesitant to bring their bodies together as a show of force. Here's how to make in-person protest safer and how to pitch in from your living room or bed instead.
For the love of they, them and we who use them.
At long last, Merriam-Webster has added they and them, as singular nonbinary pronouns, specifically, to the dictionary.
Those of us who are nonbinary, who use these pronouns, or both, didn't need a dictionary to validate our identities, or the pronouns we use. Anyone and everyone's identities and pronouns are valid, whether the dictionary or other cultural institutions acknowledge them or not.
Impurity Culture: Learning to Support Reproductive Rights When Your Religion Doesn't
Hello. I’m glad you’re here. I first just want you to know that I see you. I see you showing up here and maybe elsewhere, trying to learn, being open to new information and being willing to change and to grow. Intelligence, Stephen Hawking famously reminded us, is the ability to adapt to change. You’re smart, you’re doing your best and I believe in you.
I know what it’s like to go your whole life being told one thing is true only to find out that actually, it isn’t. That’s happened to me so many times, on so many different topics, I’ve lost count. I know what it’s like to feel angry and disillusioned.
I felt angry and disillusioned, too, when I began to realize that what I had been told about abortion was a lie.
Scarleteen Mix #10: Pride (Good Trouble Edition)
Happy, happy, happy Pride, everyone! We're talking (and listening to) some good trouble right now. And if you're going to make some, you're going to need some anthems. Sam, Alice M., Izzy, Jacob and I crafted you a mix this time that's full of good trouble and we hope will power you up in all the best ways.
Alright friends, this week I’m here to address one thing and one thing only: the obtrusive attempts being made to restrict people’s access to affordable and safe I'm a Mom Through Adoption Working To Recognize What My Daughter and Her Other Mother Have Lost
The day my daughter was born was the happiest of my life. It also just so happened to be one of the hardest for her other mama.
A Future Without HIV: Are We There Yet?
The findings of a major eight-year-long HIV study known as the PARTNER2 study have shown that so long as HIV+ partners are being fully treated, there is no chance of passing on HIV to a sexual partner, even with unprotected sex. What does that mean, and where do we stand now that we know this?
So Brett Got Confirmed. Now What?
Brett Kavanaugh may have prevailed in the short term, but he doesn’t get the last word.