There’s an assumption that I must be missing something in my life if I’m not playing backseat bingo, but I actually have a pretty rich, complex, full and interesting life. Not having sex or being interested in romance doesn’t mean I live a lonely and tragic existence!

Nor does it mean that I have any interest in pushing asexuality on anyone else; as we like to say, it’s an identity you should use if it works for you. If it doesn’t work for you, don’t use it. I don’t hate people who have sex or think that sex is gross and bad. It just doesn’t interest me.

This insistence that “someone special” equals “someone you are having sex with” doesn’t just leave asexuals out in the cold. Lots of sexual people also have deep, meaningful relationships with people who are not sexual partners and will never be. Those relationships are much more than the word “friendship” can adequately describe, yet they’re often treated as less important than a marriage or long term sexual/romantic relationship.

(Source: rkb)

nicole-clark:

This weekend, I attended the Congressional Black Caucus’ 41st Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) where I spoke on a panel about African American women and reproductive healthcare and rights. I was recommended by Advocates for Youth , and invited by Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). This panel, sponsored by PPFA, was the first of its kind at this ALC as no panel about reproductive health has been presented before. I’m excited to have been a part of it, and even more excited that it was a packed room filled with congressional members, constituents, and students who were interested in what this panel had to say.

Read the rest here.

Anti choice groups have all but given up on outlawing abortion outright, but this doesn’t mean they’ll ever stop trying to make it impossible to access the services to which women [or anyone who can get pregnant] are legally entitled. And if they get their way, by this time next year, we’ll all be pregnant.

(Source: keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)

@jonubian:

Yesterday I wrote a post exploring my ambivalent feelings about the Occupy movement. A male friend commented that I sounded angry. Damn right. I then quoted him some Audre Lorde. “Anger is loaded with information and energy.” Pow.

Here’s more:

“But anger expressed and translated into action in…