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The march backwards

Guest Blogger: Thilde Knudsen, Head of Marie Stopes International’s Europe Office

Women’s sexual and reproductive rights at risk: Spain is about to criminalise abortion; politicians in the UK repeatedly attempt to reduce the 24-week limit and today (Apr 10) in Brussels, a Parliamentary hearing is discussing a European Citizens’ initiative that if successful would block European Commission (EC) development funding for maternal health.

“Mirror, Mirror”: Primetime Television, Pop Culture, and the Implications of the Anti-Hero

Guest Blogger: Rachel Glasser

Through their fictional narratives, each show points directly at a corrupted government system, a racist society, and a gender stratified world in a way that is impossible to ignore.

Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

Recommend someone else’s writings/events! Use this thread for ICYMI links and anything else you think other readers might find interesting.

Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

Recommend someone else’s writings/events! Use this thread for ICYMI links and anything else you think other readers might find interesting.

Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

Recommend someone else’s writings/events! Use this thread for ICYMI links and anything else you think other readers might find interesting.

Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

Recommend someone else’s writings/events! Use this thread for ICYMI links and anything else you think other readers might find interesting.

Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

Recommend someone else’s writings/events! Use this thread for ICYMI links and anything else you think other readers might find interesting.

Is the separation of eroticism and feminism a problem?

Guest Post by Sabia McCoy Torres

Some of the backlash, commentary, and critiques Beyoncé has received for using Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi’s words from “Why We Should All Be Feminists” in her song “Flawless” has inspired me to react. Not in support of Beyoncé, but instead against a notion that I do not support implied in these critiques: that somehow her “hyper” sexuality is a contradiction to her being a feminist.

Are We Inadvertently Conceding Moral Ground? The Importance of Language Choices in the Reproductive Justice Movement

Guest post by Marcella Kocolatos

“No one is pro-abortion.”

Against Trigger Warnings

Here is one that I imagine will be thoroughly unpopular around these parts: Why trigger warnings are a bad idea on college campuses.