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Comment on Reproductive Justice Linkspam: A Starting Point by Janet Fraser

Janet Fraser — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:29:38 +0000

Thank you! What a fantastic round up. Here in Australia we also face having our right to homebirth with the careprovider of our choosing being removed shortly. Reproductive justice also includes, as you note, the right to birth as we choose.
http://janetfraser.id.au/blog/

Comment on climbing out from the valley of the shadow of school homework to rec this post: by climbing holds

climbing holds — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:09:28 +0000

I want to subscribe to your feed but I can not seem to find where.

Comment on Reproductive Justice Linkspam: A Starting Point by LDR

LDR — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:25:26 +0000

Thanks for posting this.

Comment on Reproductive Justice Linkspam: A Starting Point by Digital Coyote

Digital Coyote — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:49:27 +0000

This is bat country. There’s no other explanation for this madness.

Comment on Reproductive Justice Linkspam: A Starting Point by Sanguinity

Sanguinity — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:01:51 +0000

Yes Means Yes has a great article by Tiloma Jayasignhe called, “When Pregnancy is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will be Pregnant,” which documents how the U.S. criminal justice system controls and limits the fertility of women of color and poor women. In addition to the “crack baby” scare you mention in the linkspam, the essay includes court cases where birth control was made a condition of parole for women of color. And the crime that, in the court’s eyes, requires the parolee to be on birth control? Forging checks.

…yeah.

Comment on Reproductive Justice Linkspam: A Starting Point by Noir

Noir — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:45:54 +0000

Thank you so much! I was just reading the pdfs. Great compilation.

Comment on Race, Terminology, and Self-Identification by moon

moon — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:11:12 +0000

Well I don’t know whether I look German or not because, people tell me one way and the other. There are people who tell me that they can see “what’s in me”,mostly referring to my nose, lips, cheekbones, facial features in general, and they are both white and PoC. My name is clearly Arab (which, upon hearing it, seduces people to ask “where are you from?”, thus, placing me outside the nation) and confuses many as I have said earlier, mostly I have to spell it; it does confuse them to the point where they are suprised, that albeit having my name I am very well able to speak German, and do hold a German passport (as well as a Jordanian one). Moreover, I have already been told that, having a name like mine I shouldn’t be suprised one might think me a refugee (really weird situation) on top of all sorts of remarks and “jokes” about terrorists, hijab, my worth in camels and so on and so on. Authenticity (especially around the issues of being Arab, Muslim, German) is a big issue. So when I speak up against racist remarks about Arabs and/or Muslims I am told to take it more lightly, me not being a “real” Arab/Muslim or “only half an” Arab and/or Muslim after all. However, when I argue about Muslim feminism with Muslim men and women, they, too tell me I’m not real, not 100%, because I don’t wear hijab, mostly grew up in Germany and so on.

Comment on Evaluating the Outrageous by Nell

Nell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:55:03 +0000

i completely agree.
campaigns like that one in Georgia cost thousands of dollars. but instead of spending that money on something like…better sex education for lower income families, better schooling all together, and better/more laws and aid single-mothers…they’d rather spend it on some ridiculous campaign like this that has no shred of logic to support it.
i’m reading 2 books right now that deal with confronting the image of the welfare queen and the like (Medical Apartheid~ Harriet A. Washington and Killing the Black Body~Dorothy Roberts).
and its very telling how the baby on the ad is black. considering that blacks in this country make up less that 15% of the population, why is a black child the face of the aborted child? yet again, another aid in the pigeon-holing of black women that if we aren’t jezebels or mammies, then we’re bad mothers, recklessly having babies that we don’t care about and cannot care for.
i don’t recall the article saying who did or paid for these billboards, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t a black men’s christian organization.

Comment on Does Street Harassment Ever Lead To True Love? (My Guess: No) by Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:20:54 +0000

I thought about this very issue recently. At a party, I met someone who said he’d met me before.
“Where?”, said I.
“Starbucks,” he replied.
And then he reminded me of the situation – he saw me through the window and walked in. I was reading. He asked to share my table. I agreed. He tried to initiate a conversation by asking, “What are you reading?”, to which I responded with, “A book.”
He got the message and did not persist. Took out some papers of his own and started reading.
At the party, he told me that he felt a bit hurt that evening, because I did not want to talk. I told him that his way of initiating a confersation was simply awkward, and that if he wants to get to know a woman, he must find a mutual friend or do some such thing.
He said, “But what if we don’t have mutual friends, or I don’t know who they are?”
“Well”, I said. It must happen to women, occasionally, to see a man that picks their interest. And a man with whom they have no friends in common. But women, generaly, don’t just walk up to men and ask for a phone number.

Comment on The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally by cl

cl — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:06:20 +0000

I’m kind of in love with this post. It’s an awesome compilation of my issues with white “allies,” and I’m glad someone put it together and wrote it.