Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
This is a powerful and disturbing video, especially when the children are asked to choose between a white doll and a black doll and which one is the good doll.
Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves
Kiri Davis is a young filmmaker whose high school documentary has left audiences at film festivals across the country stunned — and has re-ignited a powerful debate over race.
Today is the 34th anniversary of Roe v Wade.
While this is predominately a celebration for American women, I believe that women worldwide can share in the celebration.
In the words of Virginia Woolf, “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
The topic this year is a simple one, “why I am pro-choice.”
I am pro – choice because I believe children have a right to know they were wanted. That they weren’t born because of some imagined obligation to church or to god or because some law ruled their mother had to carry them to term.
I am pro – choice because I do not believe that my daughters have less right to decide their futures than my sons.
The simple answer is I am pro choice because I could not be anything else.
I have written to this subject before here, here,and here
to name a few.
I would say to sum up those posts that abortion is a woman’s right. A human right.
A society which would seek to suppress human rights is neither democratic nor just.
And human rights are not up for discussion or debate, they just inherently are.
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Nuance used to be a good word
Dictionary meaning:
1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.
2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone: a rich artistic performance, full of nuance.
New meaning:
1. Riding the fence with a picket up your ass (see E. May abortion policy)
2.Trying to save corporate face by changing a policy but pretending not to..
example
Royal Bank has changed its U.S. dollar account policy and will now let dual nationality Canadian customers open the accounts as long as they meet standard residency and other requirements.
Canada’s biggest bank issued what it called a clarification of its policies “due to confusion” surrounding the issue.
A brief statement from the bank said it asks for proof of citizenship and residency for any individual client wanting to open a U.S. dollar account.
“With some exceptions, RBC will provide a U.S. dollar account to dual citizens of sanctioned countries as long as they meet our ‘know your client’ and ‘anti-money laundering’ requirements, which include proof of residency in Canada,” the bank said.
An RBC spokesman in Montreal said the bank “just nuanced our position to a certain extent.”
Some divorced men might appreciate Ladies Night as a chance to meet new women, establish friendships, relationships..hell maybe even get laid.
But not Mr. Horner, when he hears about Ladies Night he hears discrimination.
What he really means is his wife left him seven years ago, and instead of doing some self reflection and actually moving on with his life, he has decided to go Dr. Evil on Feminism.
Horner, who says he turned against feminism when his wife left him seven years ago, plans to expand his crusade.
“This is now a violation of law. I will now make it a point to visit as many ladies nights as I can every week. I’ll have my rights violated, then I’ll sue them in county court and collect my $500,” he said.
Geez I thought when you went somewhere to purposely get your rights violated it cost you money.
I see much of what is occurring lately to be a fear response.
Can’t raise minimum wage for fear that business will suffer.
Does business not suffer when people do not have money to spend?
This is the obvious first step on the journey to the decline of capitalism. First you create an underclass, give them just a little, instill them with fear of having nothing and make them fight each other for the pittance that barely allows them to keep body and soul together. [Read more…] about “In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
I had a bad feeling about this year, and I was unfortunately right about that.
Personally I lost a mom, a cat, two jobs, and had two serious health scares.
Politically saw the election of Harper and crew, a renewed and emboldened attack on women’s rights and freedoms, the realization that though the wheel was invented, many still want to put corners on it and have a nuanced discussion over who should be using it, continued death and destruction by the powerful who stand to gain more.. upon the many who have nothing left to lose, and the death of a puppet who had turned on his masters. [Read more…] about And so it ends..
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