Rape survivor, Gabrielle Union has weighed in on Tod Akin’s “legitimate rape,” comment, and she’s not happy. By now I’m sure you’re aware of the epic shit storm sparked by comments made Missouri Rep. Todd Akin yesterday. In the event that you’ve been living in a bubble and may have missed the controversy, you can read fellow [...]

As if it isn’t bad enough that out of 178 nations, the United States is one of three countries that doesn’t offer paid maternity leave benefits, apparently pregnant women aren’t allowed to be gainfully employed. Somehow I’m not surprised that this is hardly mentioned in the ongoing political “war on women” talks that has persisted [...]

It looks like my right-wing friends in South Carolina are up to their usual foolishness again. This time, apparently an unborn fetus has more rights than a woman (or child) reliant on the state health insurance system — you know, mostly low-income women who happen to be a victims of rape, or incest? And, to [...]

So what do you do when the economy starts showing positive signs of recovery after yelling that president Obama has failed and that the country is heading in the wrong direction? Well, you do what any Republican running for the highest office in the land would do: you create a wedge issue. Yeah, it’s kinda [...]

Sometimes, I wonder what it’s like to wake up in the morning, and be so entrenched in my own privilege and prejudices that I attempt with all my might to assert my beliefs on people with whom I have absolutely nothing in common. As a person who faces multiple lines of marginalization, the thought process [...]

I’m not certain how this trend flew completely under my radar, but in case you missed it too, there is a trend by the sparkly young anti-choicers called “Until Abortion Ends”. The main website of the Until Abortion Ends Movement seems to be hosted by the Catholic church and all other things religious and right-wing, [...]