July 2007

Bad Ass Women’s Activist of the Week

by Cara July 26, 2007

Sadly, Heather Burcham, a woman with cervical cancer who fought tirelessly to make the cervical cancer vaccine mandatory for girls in the state of Texas, has died. She was 31 years old. The fight for a mandated cervical cancer vaccine was one that was ultimately lost in her lifetime, when the Texas legislature overturned Governor [...]

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Sometimes the questions we don’t ask tell us more than the questions we do

by Cara July 25, 2007

I finally got the chance to watch the YouTube Democratic debate today. As a feminist, the fact that this question was asked and the fact that it was aired interested me: [Transcript: Hello, my name is John McAlperin. I'm a proud member of the United States military and I'm serving overseas. This question is to [...]

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Envy-Inducing Souvenirs

by Cara July 25, 2007

So I thought that these were pretty badass: [For a larger version, click here.] I have already written a couple of posts about the Planned Parenthood conference. Being a lowly intern at my PP affiliate with a stretched budget, I was obviously not able to attend. But several people I work with were lucky enough [...]

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British Backlash

by Cara July 24, 2007

Sadly, the British Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), a thirty year old organization that fought for gender equality, released its final report today. Very disappointingly, the government has decided to absorb the EOC into the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, which deals generally with discrimination issues. This (most likely) means that gender issues will get [...]

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Small Victories Still Deserve to be Celebrated

by Cara July 24, 2007

Whoa, another crazy day today with my PP internship . . . I promise that I will work out a system very shortly for putting up posts in a timely manner on days when I’m interning. In the meantime, thanks for your patience. I’m going to reward it now with some (mostly) good news! Firstly, [...]

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Obama does NOT want to teach your five-year-old how to fuck

by Cara July 23, 2007

So it seems that today is officially Obama Day at The Curvature– which is only fair, since I think that I’ve given ample airtime to Edwards and discussed Clinton’s campaign at length. Last week, you might have seen right wing pundits going crazy over his highly-sensible remarks about sex education at the Planned Parenthood conference. [...]

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Oooh, Girl Fight!

by Cara July 23, 2007

So here’s something obnoxious to start out your week: The Chicago Sun-Times, amply displaying why they’re still considered that other Chicago newspaper, has an article that begs the question Who’s the real Obama girl?

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Sexual Assault: Really, really, really wrong, or just kind of wrong?

by Cara July 22, 2007

The Times Magazine’s cover story this week (July 22, 2007) is about laws regarding juvenile sex offenders. The article, by Maggie Jones, covers a lot of good ground– how do we define what is “consensual” and what isn’t when both individuals are children? What is the proper treatment for juvenile sex offenders? Is the current [...]

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A Novel Plan for Boosting Rape Convictions

by Cara July 21, 2007

A new plan has been proposed in Scotland that would help to protect rape victims in court and boost conviction rates: Although direct questions on a woman’s character and sexual history are no longer allowed, defence barristers often find ways round the restriction and are only too adept at exploiting jurors’ prejudices about the way [...]

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Everyone’s talking about Hillary, but no one has anything intelligent to say

by Cara July 20, 2007

The volume of articles that I find or receive on a daily basis either about or including attacks on Hillary Clinton is astonishing. Here are some of the highlights: Syndicated columnist Robert Novak made unchallenged comments on Meet the Press that essentially called the Dems idiots for having the gall to potentially run a woman [...]

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