~ A Thank You ~ The Violence Against Women Act Turns 30, Today * By Professor Dale Margolin Cecka, director of the Family Violence Litigation Clinic at Albany Law School. Intimate partner violence…
Monday Ménage: By The Fireside. Accepted Patterns. What A Load of BS!
Eleanor Roosevelt. Shirley Chisholm. Margaret Trudeau. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must…
Friday Serenade: Cowards Up Their Violence Against Women
Republican Governor of Louisiana will sign a bill that was passed by the state's House on Tuesday that puts abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol in the same category as heroin and other illegal drugs.…
WayBack Wednesday: The U.S. Supreme Court vs U.S. Women & Girls; Assault Intensified…
The Supreme Court of the United States of America is continuing it's assault on women and girls of this country. It's time to say ENOUGH and mean it. CommonDreams.org: Less than a month…
Monday Ménage: Tyrants. A Catcher’s Mitt. Realities of Democracy.
Abigail Adams. Maya Angelou. Elizabeth Warren. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion,…
Monday Ménage: History. Heart. Housewife.
Shirley Chisholm. Frances E.W. Harper. Florynce Kennedy. I want history to remember me not just as the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first Black woman to have…
Monday Ménage: Tyrants. Misogyny. You’re Fired.
Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound…
WayBack Wednesday: No Gets Big Yes
‘Ohio saw through the con’: abortion rights advocates celebrate Issue 1 result Ohioans unequivocally rejected a ballot measure [Issue 1] that would have raised the threshold for amending their state constitution, a move…
Healthcare Is A Human Right, Even In The US
One year ago, six conservative Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court took away the health-care rights of all of the nation's women and girls. The following article in Newsday, (the Long Island, NY, daily)…
Monday Ménage: Edition Crafting The Legs, Betterment of The World, Women and The Important Things
Sealy. Taryam. Valenti. Women have always had to be creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions and to…
Elections Have Consequences
For Immediate Release:Tuesday, September 13, 2022 NARAL Pro-Choice America PRESS RELEASE NARAL Pro-Choice America Condemns National Abortion Ban Legislation Introduced by Republican Senator Washington, DC — (more…)
Monday Ménage: Edition U.S. Fundamentalists and Russia, The Hyde Amendment and Reagan’s Court Packing, SCOTUS and The Same Tilt
Vanden Heuvel. Demause. Schwartz. Beyond the bloody events in Moscow last month that transfixed the world and jolted the country's political life, there is another, more subterranean battle going on for the Russian…
Friday Serenade: A Repeat. Stand Up. Speak Out. Repeat!
On Friday, 24 June, 2022, six right-wing Justices of the United States Supreme Court ruled that women do not have Constitutional rights to their body nor the right to manage their own health care.…
Wednesday WayBack: Will Biden Ever Learn
Just days after the far-right Conservative Cabal on the U.S. Supreme Court took away a woman's right to control her own reproductive decisions, and health, the President of the United States reportedly has made…
Friday Serenade: Free For We Not For Thee
None of Us Are Free If One of Us In Chains Anyone who's lived long enough has seen the Supreme Court issue a ruling they didn't like. This is not that. No, what made…
Friday Serenade: A Nation Collapses
Another Nail in US Democracy's Coffin On Friday, 24 June, 2022, six right-wing Justices of the United States Supreme Court ruled that women do not have Constitutional rights to their body nor…
Friday Serenade: Continuous Action
Creating outrage, creating the ‘others’, has worked as policy since political parties were themselves created. Recently it worked for the former guy and now is working for the current cabal of far-right fascism-loving…
Wednesday WayBack: Reproductive Rights, Civil Liberties & The Attack on The Constitution – Part Deux
Posted here 2021.09.02 Taliban Unleashed, In The U.S. Coming Soon To A State Near You The American Taliban, formerly known as the Republican Party, with full support from conservative fanatics on the Supreme Court,…
Wednesday WayBack: Reproductive Rights, Civil Liberties and The Attack on The Constitution
Posted here 2021.12.01 Going to go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the Court would be seeing this differently if it was ruling on cocks and balls. ~ Rusty coathangers…
Friday Serenade: No Mandates For Manly Men. But For Women, Yeah, Mandate Life And Death
POS GOP Reject Vaccine Mandates for Men, But Same Cowards Demand Pregnancy Mandates for Women One way to explain these contradictions in Republican ideology is sexism. Right wing ideology is about male power and…
Wednesday WayBack: Roe v. Wade And The Supreme Court
Going to go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the Court would be seeing this differently if it was ruling on cocks. ~ Rusty coathangers are not what I'm talking about.…
Times Have Changed, But Battle Goes On
With Honour, Alice Paul. On 20 October in 1917 U.S. suffragette Alice Paul began a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women's Suffrage Amendment (19th Amendment - right to…
Taliban vs Taliban
Afghan Taliban Catching Up To American Taliban Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan The future of girls and female teachers, stuck at home since Taliban took control, not addressed. The Taliban…
UPDATED: U.S. Supreme Court’s Far Right Agenda, Passes On Texas Abortion Ban
UPDATE: 2021.09.02 07:30 Supreme Court Refuses To Block Extreme Texas Abortion Law In 5-4 Ruling The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday night it would not block Texas’ extreme new law that criminalizes abortion after…
Statement By President Joe Biden On Texas Law SB8
01 September, 2021 Today, Texas law SB8 went into effect. This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.…
The Lady
Attacks by Republican fundamentalists on women’s human rights in the US have accelerated over the past five-plus years. These attacks, obviously, are based on fear. Much like their brethren in countries such as Iran,…
Monday Ménage
Sandra Sealy. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Jessica Valenti. Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the…