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Bubbling Mudlarks
Brandann Hill-Mann (aka Ouyang Dan) guest posting at Racialicious: Wopajo I don’t know how to talk about race, because I have never been allowed to fit into one. abby jean guest posting at Feministe:...
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Sizzling Seahorses
Tasha Fierce at Bitch Magazine: Size Matters: Bigotry’s Last Stand? Many times I’ve heard fat cisgendered women, mainly fat white cisgendered women, suggest that fatphobia is the “last acceptable form...
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Arrogant Bowties
Announcements! I’m wrapping up my stint at Bitch Magazine with Push(back) at the Intersections today, and they’re giving me a whole day off before I start guest blogging again as part of a Grey’s...
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Condoms Are a Vital Public Health Tool, So Must We Still Freak Out About Them?
A number of cities across the United States in recent years have cracked down on condoms. Their logic is that anyone caught carrying a large number of condoms must be a sex worker, and sex work is...
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The Right Makes War on Pregnant Women and Mothers
Here’s a thing about the right that puzzles me, and it’s something I have written about before: many conservatives claim to be deeply concerned about ‘the children,’ yet they actively work against...
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The Peculiar Case of Miscarriage in Pop Culture
Miscarriages occupy a deeply strange role in pop culture, appearing primarily as plot devices rather than actual life events for the characters. The events surrounding a miscarriage seem to be less...
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An Immigrant Endured a Forcible C-Section, and No One Seemed to Care
News broke in Ireland over the summer that an immigrant woman who had previously been denied an abortion was subjected to a forced Cesarean section at just 26 weeks after her pregnancy became unstable...
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Protecting pregnant women is part of reproductive rights too
The war on reproductive rights is a complicated and seemingly endless one; just when I think I know what’s coming next, some clever legislator comes up with a new way to attack the rights of people...
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Pregnancy costs are out of control
The United States has what may well be one of the most bizarre cultures surrounding pregnancy, labour, and delivery in the world. Though having children is not on my agenda (so much so that I went to...
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How about we not judge pregnant people?
This is the year of fecund friends. Every time I turn around, someone I know is pregnant. I’m starting to fear walking into a room lest my uterus spontaneously sprout a foetus in order to join in the...
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Maternity care: Still not covered under ACA
Pregnancy: Quite common for nearly half of bodies in the United States! Often a not only desired but actively sought out state, followed by delivery of an infant and parenting of a child! For many...
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The United States likes to advertise its health care system as the best in the world, with top of the line treatments and pioneering care, but the truth is more complex. Financial status can have a...
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