An Open Letter to President Obama
Dear President Obama:
You made a promise to the women of the United States last year on the campaign trail—and just a few weeks ago, you said it again:
“As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, you’ve got a president who’s going to be right there with you fighting every step of the way.”
Mr. President, I’m writing today to urge you to fulfill that promise.
I’m writing as president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, and on behalf of reproductive rights and justice advocates nationwide.
Making Progress Toward Destigmatizing Abortion
Activists Demand Facebook Stop ‘Glorifying Violence Against Girls and Women’
A coalition of more than two dozen activists launched a campaign Tuesday demanding that Facebook, the world’s largest social media website, be more responsive to gendered threats and violent speech targeting women and girls within its communities. The activists are asking users to put pressure on the company where it will hurt the most: on the company’s advertisers.
“We are asking Facebook users to contact advertisers whose ads on Facebook appear next to content that targets women for violence, to ask these companies to withdraw from advertising until you take the above actions to ban gender-based hate speech on your site,” explained the group in an open letter.
Spearheaded by Laura Bates of the Everyday Sexism Project, Jaclyn Friedman of Women, Action, and the Media, and writer and women’s rights activist Soraya Chemaly, the campaign seeks to draw attention to the double standard of the social network, which hyper-regulates content depicting female bodies while largely ignoring the violent speech and misogyny that runs rampant in some sectors of the site.
Why is El Salvador letting a woman die?
This past month, the world has been watching a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El Salvador die, little by little. I want to say it is like watching an accident happen in slow motion, but this situation is no accident. El Salvador’s government is deliberately denying lifesaving treatment to the woman, for no reason other than that she is pregnant.
War, natural disaster, environmental crisis. No matter the threat to their children, mothers fight back.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!
The Wage Gap: A Handy Visual Guide
So much for WW’s claim that MoC have it all over them.
(via iamnotafeministtbh)
For the criminally stupid aka #FoxNews viewers. #p2 #tcot #planB
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, religion, and conscience. But international human rights standards do not protect our right to express those thoughts or that conscience in a manner that infringes on other people’s human rights.
Petition the Obama Administration to mandate education about sexual assault and rape in schools
The last petition we were pushing did not obtain enough votes, we will not stop until this is mandated. Please vote on the WHITEHOUSE.GOVwebsite, it takes 2 seconds and they never send you emails.
(via foryoursexualinformation)
