Weekly Open Thread with Feminist Cabaret This week I decided to let my favourite feminist cabaret troupe, Lady Sings It Better, host the Open Thread. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week. * with a few netiquette exceptions
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.
Catholic dominance over hospitals endangers women My latest at Al Jazeera America is about how Catholic health care services put women’s health at risk:
Weekly Open Thread with Hedgehogs and Otters This week’s Open thread is brought to you by me only just discovering the Hedgehogs That Look Like Martin Freeman meme. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week. * with a few netiquette exceptions
Bill Cosby, Serial Rapist? In 2006, Bill Cosby was accused of raping several women in assaults that go back to the 70s. Tom Scocca at Gawker has the story. Weirdly, I have absolutely no recollection of these accusations being published in People magazine and discussed on the Today show.
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.
Open Black History Month Thread Some starter links for positive discussions on outstanding people and events, and thoughts on the annual “bbbbut wheeeen is White History Month?!?” tantrum-throwers.
Which Woody Allen movie is your favorite? Dylan Farrow, the daughter of Woody Allen, speaks out about charges that he sexually assaulted her when she was a kid. [TW for, as you might suspect, sexual assault].