Join us in Albany for huge rally of support for #NY4Women #WomensEquality Agenda June 4th! Take the bus from Newburgh or Kingston or car pool and meet us there!

Women’s Equality Agenda! Spread the word.

the-uncensored-she:

Blame the rapist, chop his precious “manhood” off, and shove it down his throat. Then hold society accountable for upholding the Rape Culture that excuses, justifies and enables male sexual violence against women.

(Source: anna-grrrl, via damn-iwasgoingforthoughtful)

pplm:

For Women’s History Month, we’re recognizing Massachusetts women who are MAKING history! Ayanna Pressley was the first woman of color to be elected to the Boston City Council. She stands with Planned Parenthood and has been a strong advocate for sex ed in Boston Public Schools.

(via safersex)

rhrealitycheck:

When Eden Foods’ CEO Michael Potter first joined the federal lawsuit in opposition to the new requirement to provide birth control for female employees in any company health plan, he claimed it was a religious objection. Now, according to a recent interview in Salon, he’s revealed that he doesn’t want to cover it because he’s a man.

For private companies to claim that they should be legally treated like churches is bad enough, but to claim that they should be able to discriminate against their employees because the CEO is a different gender? Ridiculous.

Sign the petition to demand that Mr. Potter and Eden Foods drop out of the birth control lawsuit.

Reading through his comments, the more Potter talks, the worse it sounds. From Salon:

“I’ve got more interest in good quality long underwear than I have in birth control pills, … Because I’m a man, number one and it’s really none of my business what women do,” Potter said. So, then, why bother suing? “Because I don’t care if the federal government is telling me to buy my employees Jack Daniel’s or birth control.”

Birth control is like long underwear? Like whiskey? No, Mr. Potter, birth control is healthcare. No company’s employees should go without routine healthcare that they work hard to earn just because their boss thinks it’s silly.

buzzfeedlgbt:

250 Billion In Federal Contracts Doled Out In States With No LGBT Anti-Discrimination Laws

SAY WHAT?

(via wertheyouth)

rhrealitycheck:

Book Review: ‘Generation Roe’ a Savvy New Book By a Young Advocate

Generation Roe provides a savvy overview of how abortion came to be so inaccessible, marginalized, and stigmatized while disproving the tired media trope that “young women don’t care about abortion.”

What is so great about this book is Erdreich’s insistence on taking the pro-choice movement to task for actions that may, however inadvertently, have supported two consecutive calendar years that saw the highest and second-highest number of new abortion restrictions ever. 

(Source: rhrealitycheck.org)

rhrealitycheck:

It is poor women, young women, women of color and immigrant women who bear the burden of these restrictions, particularly federal bans on funding for abortion care. These bans – such as the Hyde Amendment that affects Medicaid and the international Helms Amendment that affects our foreign aid – exacerbate the circumstances that lead women to facilities like Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic in the first place.

(Source: rhrealitycheck.org)

grrrl-riot:

• Feminists Were on It
• Pro-Choice Policies Are Not the Problem
• Improving Access Prevents Unethical Providers
• Beware of Women’s Safety Used as a Pretext
• Stigmatizing Abortions Hurts Women

Click title above to read more. 

(via rhrealitycheck)

count-vulvula:

Hey, y’all. The University of Toledo’s Medical College abruptly ended the transfer agreement between them and the two abortion clinics in Toledo.  If the clinics do not have this transfer agreement, they will be forced to shut down within 30 days of the next inspection they have. Please, sign this petition to help keep abortion safe and legal in Toledo! Then, please spread it around. Thank you!

(via stfuprolifers)