October 2011
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This Is What Young Women of Color Really Want →
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...
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How Anti Choice Groups Are Trying to Eliminate... →
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.
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Just Jo: Audre Lorde speaks about the usefulness... →
@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…
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