Jessica Valenti

NC lawmaker calls for public hangings of abortion providers

Jessica — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:04 +0000

NC lawmaker calls for public hangings of abortion providers

faggotspice: I love tumblr, ok? why can’t life be more like tumblr.

Jessica — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:31:28 +0000

faggotspice:

I love tumblr, ok? why can’t life be more like tumblr.

Dear media, please call it rape

Jessica — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:44:00 +0000

Greg Kelly, son of NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly and co-host of “Good Day New York” on Fox 5, is being investigated for sexually assaulting a woman. Yet the headline that just came up in my news feed was this:

The media needs to call sexual assault what it is. When headlines continually conflate rape and sexual assault with ‘sex’, they contribute to a culture that ignores, and even condones, sexual violence.

UPDATE: Look at this! Good on them.

Oklahoma bill wants to ban the use of fetuses in food

Jessica — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:05:22 +0000

This bit of bizarreness reminds me of this abstinence only speaker who told students that lipstick is made of aborted fetuses. (At around 3:35) Fun!

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus: That statistic will only matter to you if you care about the welfare and health of actual living, breathing pregnant people. Which I do.

Jessica — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:06:56 +0000

Abortion safer than giving birth: study

Jessica — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:06:11 +0000

Santorum: Pregnancy as a result of rape is “a gift” and victims “should make the best out of a bad s

Jessica — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:49:09 +0000

Santorum: Pregnancy as a result of rape is “a gift” and victims “should make the best out of a bad situation”

Via Raw Story, pro-choice activists crash anti-choice event.

Jessica — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:28:57 +0000

Via Raw Story, pro-choice activists crash anti-choice event.

Great interview with Hanne Blank on her (wonderful) new book, “Straight: The Surprisingly Short Hist

Jessica — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:03:24 +0000

Great interview with Hanne Blank on her (wonderful) new book, “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality”

From a wonderful piece on female friendship, tragedy, and the “urgency of compassion.”

Jessica — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:22:39 +0000

They understood, together, as friends, and apart, as individuals in the world, the urgency of compassion, and that it often goes unnoticed but that this doesn’t make it any less important or vital or difficult to sustain and cultivate. And they also understood that you could try as hard as you possibly could, and disaster could still strike – mercilessly.