Was any other major issue given as little time as abortion and the overturning of #RoeVWade in #Biden’s #sotu2023?
Fucking outrageous.
If you thought “Where’s the sense of urgency?!” now you know.
It doesn’t exist.
It’s as if nothing happened just a few months ago.
It’s bad enough that Republicans won the House just 5 months after the Supreme Court overturned #RoeVWade and now the president gives it what—3 or 4 sentences?!
Wow
I am THRILLED that I am postmenopausal because to be a person who could get pregnant in this country right now would be to held hostage to a zealotry that at the highest levels of politics in this country is denied.
Here’s the entirety of what he said, via CSPAN (hence the Caps lock) via @rerutled
In this great “democracy” that #Biden kept referring to—he said “democracy” more times than abortion—Christian zealots used democracy to cut democracy at its knees by overturning a right that the majority of Americans support feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…#abortion
How much worse it could get in this “great democracy” Abortion rights advocates delivered stark warning to Biden admin’s top health official: It’s time to take seriously “fringe” threats that could wind up blocking abortion access across the country washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
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Few things are surrounded by more shame & silence than a cis woman who's no longer young, her vagina which is no longer wet, and her sex drive which isn't supposed to exist feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
If I thought I needed to be brave to write about my 2 abortions, it's next level courage to admit to being that cis woman who's no longer young,whose vagina is no longer wet,and whose sex drive isn't supposed to exist.
So here I am looking shame in the eye, daring it to test me
The Black lesbian poet and intellectual Audre Lorde famously told us “your silence will not protect you.”
With a population of 100 million, that horrific percentage means that Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world.
I've been training with Jeana Fanelli for three months now and I'm at the stage where I think about deadlifts at random times, pretty much all the time--ways to improve my form, feeling them in my upper "hammies" (notice the lingo haha!) and glutes, etc. This is 131lbs (59.4kg)
There is a moment when you’re learning to deadlift that background moves into foreground, like those paintings full of dots that required you to look beyond the foreground into the background, so that the picture becomes apparent.
That moment when realise the power behind the move is less a lifting and more a pushing away. Once you sort out your breathing, how far back you can hinge your hips and what to do with your core and arms, you begin to understand it is less about lifting, more about pushing away.
Along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib. @Ilhan has challenged the sacrosanct U.S. support for Israel and expressed support for Palestinians as an expression of both their identities and also their progressive politics. I wrote this about the ways they're disruptors feministgiant.com/p/the-disrupto…
Tlaib and Omar are disruptors who signal that if there was a way to do things before they arrived, that way was not their destination.