Tweet of the Day: You Can’t Handle the Ruth

Omg yes – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is holding this shirt up. Need it. pic.twitter.com/U2UdhdccdH — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 17, 2015

Hobby Lobby, my mother and the many faces of happiness.

Originally posted on News from the Front:
-I’m going to have to start this with some very uncomfortable autobiographical material. I’m not crazy about getting this personal. However, my experiences are germane to the topic at hand. My mom had me when she was eighteen. I forget if she was married before or after I…

The Rise Of The Notorious R.B.G.

Originally posted on The Dish:
Rebecca Traister is thrilled by Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s rise to meme-hood: Throughout history, we have acknowledged male strength, especially in its seniority, as serious and authoritative. Older women, on the other hand, have existed mostly as nanas, bubbes! Those sturdy, ambitious souls who also staked claims to public eminence were cast as problematic;…

My Sincerely Held Belief Means No More Student Loan Payments, Right?

My Extremely Religious Uterus Would Like a Word

The Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Patriarchy, Not Democracy

Ginsburg’s #HobbyLobby Dissent | ♫ by Jonathan Mann ♫

This may be the only good thing to happen today. I share it with hopes it will give you a little joy in an otherwise dark day.

In McCullen, Supreme Court Demonstrates Ignorance of What Really Happens Outside Women’s Health Clinics

For months, I’ve been talking to fellow pro-choice activists in New York City about whether we could get a buffer zone passed here. There was a pretty solid consensus: we could do this, but we should wait for a decision on McCullen vs. Coakley, the Supreme Court case looking at Massachusetts’s 35 foot buffer zone…

Tweet of the Day: The States Who Don’t Want You To Vote Edition

One year after SCOTUS VRA decision, new voting restrictions in place in 22 states http://t.co/R6EoDlVFOh pic.twitter.com/FcdfNM4dhe — Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 24, 2014 Two-thirds of states previously under Sec 5 of VRA passed new voting restrictions since 2010 http://t.co/R6EoDlVFOh pic.twitter.com/jXswuwt15W — Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 24, 2014 Fifty Years After Freedom Summer, the Voting Rights […]

The Way Forward — Thoughts on the #WarOnWomen, Moral Mondays, SCOTUS rulings and How We Fight

Yes, I’ve been tweeting. Reading compulsively. Talking with allies on Facebook. But, it hit me last night over dinner with fine company, I haven’t really processed all the implications of this week. But, these are my own thoughts about what this week means for those of us motivated by justice, living in Red (or purple – […]