March 2012
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11 Things We Could Buy with 1 Month of War Funding →
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An Awesome Point of View from a Man Who Took His... →
Some people (cough internet posters cough) react by making a crack about masculinity, implying that I am either marrying a dude or have ceded my patriarchal right. Others think it’s the best idea because you can make your new name google-proof and keep people from finding bad stuff you wrote on the internet when you were younger, as if my googleability (not our families, present and...
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We Are Women March - Texas →
This is the link for the Texas Facebook Group.
National Group
Houston Group
Feel free to repost with the links to your local group or organizers. Let’s not take this one sitting down.
The best decision I made in my marriage? Keeping... →
February 2012
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Anonymous asked: What can one do about idiots like Tom Suehs????
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Texas Cuts Planned Parenthood from Women's Health... →
Today Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs signed off on a controversial new rule designed to exclude Planned Parenthood from participation in the Women’s Health Program – and in so doing has likely killed the successful program. The WHP is a Medicaid-waiver program that provides basic healthcare and family planning services to low-income and...
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Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: If you are on... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I love Tumblr but I just don’t know how to use it mobilize.
But I know Twitter.
And so I’m starting there.
If you are on Twitter and you’d like to see more national media coverage about what is going on in Texas, let’s let the right people know:
@upwithchris (hashtag #uppers)
@mhpshow…
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More Men Taking Their Wife's Last Name →
Mark Tyler is “man enough” to admit to GalTime that he actually did all of the above. Mark wore a mangagement ring during his engagement, and soon after he and his bride Carol Tyler got married last January, Mark took his wife’s last name. He started the ceremony as Mark Harper and ended it as Mark Tyler. The minister even announced, “Here come the Tylers” as...
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The Syllabi for Melissa Harris-Perry's Classes →
are online. So you an go read the books, etc, and pretend like you’re in her classes.
Without the tests, of course.
January 2012
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“Always I fought for what I thought was right. But never did I question the...”
– Gabrielle Giffords
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On Why I Kept My Last Name →
I started a personal blog. I won’t lie to you, it’s mostly pretty boring so far. But I wrote a little bit on why I kept my last name. It’s pretty straightforward and to the point. It seems kind of relative to this blog too, so I thought I post the link, in case anyone would like to read it.
I felt like it was important to get out there because several of the articles that...
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Ten Days in a Madhouse: The Woman Who Got Herself... →
In 1887 a young female reporter, Nellie Bly, got herself committed to a mental institution to report on the horrific conditions inside. This brief article gives a really interesting look at what she did.
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WatchMelissa Harris-Perry on The Colbert Report
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For women in business, the squeaky wheel doesn’t... →
Our recent Catalyst report, The Myth of the Ideal Worker , reveals that women do ask for raises and promotions. They just don’t get as much in return.
The research focused on career paths of high-potential men and women, drawing on thousands of MBA graduates from top schools around the world. Catalyst found that, among those who had moved on from their first post-MBA job, there was no...
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WatchGirl Scouts will start earning badges based on finances.
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Dallas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly... →
News 8 learned that Jakadrien somehow ended up in Houston, where she was arrested by Houston police for theft. She gave Houston police a fake name. When police in Houston ran that name, it belonged to a 22-year-old illegal immigrant from Columbia, who had warrants for her arrest. So ICE officials stepped in. News 8 has learned ICE took the girl’s fingerprints, but somehow...
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Taylor Swift Ad Pulled Over Airbrushed Eyelashes →
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“We get rescued by giving what we need the most. What we are waiting for has...”
– Eve Ensler, Insecure At Last
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December 2011
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Community
My significant other has a habit of finding a show he loves and just watching nothing but that show. We’ve been through Law and Order, Parks and Rec, and we’ve recently come to Community. I’d seen a few episodes before, but never really loved it as much as a lot of people seem to.
In watching it several episodes at a time, though, I realize one of the major things that seems to...
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Saudi women to run, vote without male approval in... →
Women in Saudi Arabia will not need a male guardian’s approval to run or vote in municipal elections in 2015, when women will also run for office for the first time, a Saudi official said Wednesday.
The change signifies a step forward in easing the kingdom’s restrictions against women, but it falls far short of what some Saudi reformers are calling for.
Shura Council member...
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BBC's 2011 Women of the Year →
This list has 3 women that appear for being in/having a wedding, one for going on a date with Justin Timberlake and a panda. Three women win a Nobel Peace Prize this year, but a panda makes this list. And their explanation of why Pippa is on the list?
Pippa Middleton was catapulted to global fame as a maid-of-honour at the wedding of her sister Kate to Prince William. Wearing a white, ...
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The Houston Police Department's backlog of... →
HPD for years has insisted that the backlog of untested rape kits was around 4,000. The details from the chief’s memo confirm a Houston Chronicle report that the backlog likely was far greater.
The backlog also is likely to continue to grow. According to McClelland’s memo, HPD receives some 930 new rape kits each year. HPD officials previously have said the department is able to...
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Reblog if you'd vote for Ru Paul over voting for...
stfuconservatives:
gasptambourines:
who wouldn’t?
Honestly, I’d vote for Ru Paul over just about anyone else.
Write in campaign!
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MotherJones weighs in on requiring Drug Tests for... →
Jesse Rothstein, an economist at the University of California-Berkeley who has studied unemployment insurance, says there’s little evidence that lack of education or drug addiction is the main problem for most unemployed people. “Most of the problem right now is that there aren’t enough jobs,” he says. The most recent data from the Bureau on Labor Statistics backs...
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H.R. 3601
To amend title III of the Social Security act to require a substance abuse risk assessment and targeted drug testing as a condition for the receipt of unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.
This was introduced by Jack Kingston, a Republican (obvi) from Georgia. There are a myriad of problems with this bill. One, we’ve already seen (thanks to Florida) that drug testing welfare...
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You're just as sane as I am.: rancidxheart:... →
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Sign the Petition for Dr. Pepper to Stop their Sexist Ads
sociallyconstructed:
You may have seen Dr. Peppers slogan for their new Dr. Pepper 10 - It’s not for women. Yes. Really. In addition to ridiculous commercials stating the…
Maybe I should have spelled this out more for people who couldn’t bother to click the link. Yes, it excludes...
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Sign the Petition for Dr. Pepper to Stop their... →
You may have seen Dr. Peppers slogan for their new Dr. Pepper 10 - It’s not for women. Yes. Really. In addition to ridiculous commercials stating the fact, it also says so on their website, facebook, etc.
Quite frankly, I can’t believe they haven’t pulled the campaign yet. Sign the petition, feel free to go to their facebook page, or tweet them at @DrPepper and tell them how you...
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““As the father of two daughters,” Obama told reporters, “I think it is important...”
– Rebecca Traister (article: “Obama’s woman problem”)
[of course, more than just young people who identify as “women” need access to Plan B. Obama, though, clearly directed his comments at young girls today.]
(via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
I hate this. I’m so angry. Well, I mean, then...
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Welfare Office Suicide: Rachelle Grimmer Shoots... →
This story is beyond heartbreaking. From the article:
SAN ANTONIO — The grandmother of two children shot by their mother inside a Texas welfare office said Wednesday her former daughter-in-law had a history of mental problems leading up to the standoff in a state building where the struggling family had been denied food stamps.
One of children appeared to post a chilling update on...
