Nikki Haley vetoes funding for domestic violence and sexual assault...
Nikki Haley is just the worst. She’s not a fan of the health of people with uteri, ladies or girls. Just last month she vetoed a bill that would give parents information on the side effects of HPV and...
View ArticleBetter school lunches, please.
While some have praised New York Mayor Bloomberg’s citywide ban on the sale oversized soda and sugary drinks in bodegas and movie theaters, my friend who teaches high school has eyed it with marked...
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Birth control coverage under health reform law akin to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor?
Some lovely Republican lawmakers think so, including Rep. Mike Kelly, pictured above. I think it goes without saying that if you think ensuring women’s access to preventative health services is the...
View ArticleQuick hit: 90 Days, 90 Reasons
You know it’s getting really mcreally real out there in this election season when writers I know and love get to organizing websites and breaking down policy points on why Obama is good for women (and...
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Quick hit: Sex strike as a political weapon
The women of Togo have been called to withhold a sex from their husbands and partners for one week in protest to the power and policy of the current regime: “We have many means to oblige men to...
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Plan B comes to some New York City Public Schools
New York City’s Department of Education is launching a pilot program making the morning after pill available to high school aged girls. The CATCH (Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health)...
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Four responses to how Martha Raddatz posed the abortion question
Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering...
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What porn can teach us about safer sex
Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering...
View ArticleQuick hit: Moving forward from past reproductive injustices against black women
Dr. Vanessa Cullins (Vice President for External Medical Affairs at PPFA) and Eleanor Hinton Hoytt (Black Women’s Health Imperative President and CEO, featured in the video above) have co-authored an...
View ArticleWatch: Nurses offer some real talk on Obamacare
The quick and dirty breakdown of one of the most significant laws affecting our generation in 90 seconds. h/t Upworthy Update: Transcript after the jump thanks to commenter Katie. Transcript: “The...
View ArticleWhy are poor, white women dying younger than they used to?
White women who don’t graduate from high school have seen their life expectancy decline by five years over the past 18 years. As Monica Potts explores in a fascinating long-read at The American...
View ArticleCase of 11 year old girl shows we shouldn’t use BMI testing in schools to...
An 11 year old girl in Florida was given a health assessment at school by the Collier County Health Department. The assessment included a BMI (Body Mass Index) test and the results came back that she...
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New study shows 76% of women have never been asked about domestic violence in...
A new national study done by the Verizon Foundation and More Magazine reveals that 76 percent of women say they have never been asked about domestic violence in a medical exam. And while 44 percent of...
View ArticleWeekly Feminist Reader
What the tech industry has to do with the future of health. We still don’t have a good way of talking about pursuing friendship. The dangerous transphobia of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. “When I fully burned...
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Support this environmental and reproductive justice conference!
A month later, I’m still seeing quotes from Laverne Cox’s keynote address at Creating Change 2014 (which I’m not at all bitter about missing out on. Really…I’m fine). She was a big name at a bigger...
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The Feministing Five: Emily Letts
As we covered earlier last week, Emily Letts and her three minutes and 18 second video are empowering women by providing truthful and direct information about her abortion. Her video shares her story...
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How I’m learning to appreciate different bodies
Image via Diversexity.tumblr.com Last weekend my dad and I got into a conversation about bodies. While cleaning up the kitchen, we started talking about weight and body image, and for the first time...
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The Feministing Five: Louise Melling
I don’t know about you, but I can easily say that I have had better Mondays than I did last week. After the Supreme Court struck down buffer zones around abortion clinics,the Hobby Lobby decision only...
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New documentary explores the legacy of Vietnamese women in the nail industry
Photo Credit: Nailed It Doc This looks so cool: a documentary on the legacy of Vietnamese women workers, as well as Black women’s influence, on the nail salon industry. I’m really excited about a film...
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Fracking company honors the victims of the breast cancer they help cause with...
No… this isn’t The Onion. It’s an unbelievable case of pinkwashing, greenwashing and whitewashing. As we mentioned yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation–which you’ll recall tried to pull funding...
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