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Women vs. Mothers

Hayley Krischer | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Women, Parenting, Alicia Silverstone, Feminism, Eating Placenta, Homebirth, Gina Crosley-Corcoran, Erica Jong, Women Criticizing Women, The Feminist Breeder, Ina May Gaskin, Jessica Valenti, Feministing, Parents News
Hayley Krischer

There's a whole lot of warfare going on over unconventional mothering and much of it is being done by women.

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Weekly Pulse: South Dakota's Legislative Attack on Abortion Providers

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Provider, Abortion, RH Reality Check, Brie Cadman, Kill, Jodi Jacobson, Feministing, South Dakota, Miriam Perez, Diet, Choice, H.R. 358, Nutritiion, Fruit, Insurance, Mother Jones, Health, Phil Jensen, Health Insurance, Food, Kate Sheppard, Fruitwashing, Grist, Bill, Home News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The South Dakota House of Representatives will soon vote on a bill that would expand the definition ...

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Weekly Pulse: Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Trimester, The American Prospect, Statistics, Community Health Center, Reproductive Rights, Food Safety, Fertility, Cdc, change.org, Peanut Butter, Republican, Egg, Clinic, Mother Jones, Dan Peterson, Teen Pregnancy, Affordable Care Act, Aca, Grist, Paul Waldman, Birth Rate, Abortion, Women, Judy Shackleford, Abstinence, The Progressive, Democrat, Omnibus Spending Bill, Tom Philpott, Feministing, Choice, Wisconsin, Food Safety and Modernization Act, Madison, Food, Medicare, Siddhartha Mahanta, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger It's a Christmas-week miracle! The Senate, in a vote that astonished everyone, brought the Food Safe...

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Weekly Pulse: Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Randall Terry, New York, Food Stamps, John Boehner, Mike Bloomberg, Texas, Feministing, Solitary Confinement, Choice, Death Row, Mother Jones, Soda, Ms Magazine, In These Times, Operation Rescue, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Pop, Texas Observer, Home News
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the USDA to approve a pilot program that would preve...

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Weekly Pulse: The New Hunger Epidemic, Making CPCs Come Clean, and Smoking Hipsters

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Court, New York, Smoking, RH Reality Check, Ec, Washington Monthly, Cpc, change.org, Feministing, Choice, Emergency Contraception, Williamsburg, Colorlines, Hipster, RJ Reynolds, Tobacco, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Center for Reproductive Rights, Nyclu, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger As some Americans obsess over whether to brine or deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkeys, others are goi...

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Weekly Pulse: Fear-mongering and Fetal Separatism in Today's Anti-Choice Movement

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Tiller, Amendment 62, Rachel Maddow, NAPW, Vanessa Valenti, Personhood, Scott Roeder, Documentary, Fetal Separatism, Anti-Choice, Colorado, Feministing, Lynn Paltrow, Home News
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rachel Maddow's documentary, "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller," premiered on Monday. The film tells ...

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Weekly Diaspora: Suing, Protesting, and Boycotting Arizona over SB 1070

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law Enforcement, Grittv, Colorlines, Campus Progress, The American Prospect, Jan Brewer, DREAM Act, Sb 1070, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, New America Media, Department of Justice, Feministing, Arizona, Development, Dan Cho, Racial Profiling, Eric Holder, Home News
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by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant law, is set to go into effect on July 29. With days left t...

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The F Word: Do Ask, Don't Tell

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The F Word, Queer, Lgbt, F Word, Military, Miriam Perez, Barack Obama, Laura Flanders, Lesbian, Feministing, Don\?T Ask Don\?T Tell, Closet, Grittv, Obama, Gay, Grit Tv, Politics News
Laura Flanders

The White House has pulled quite a bait and switch on the LGBT community. LGBT voters came out and contributed en masse to Barack Obama's campaign. A ...

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Weekly Diaspora: Zero Hour Approaching for Federal Immigration Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Focus, Women's Media Center, Workers Independent News, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Immigration, Arizona, Feministing, Care2, Alternet, Immigration Reform, May Day, Labor, DREAM Act, Sb 1070, Rally, Racewire, New America Media, Trail of Dreams, Inter Press Service, International Workers' Day, Real News Network, Sen Lindsay Graham, Chuck Schumer, Domestic Violence, Undocumented, Politics News
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by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger The countdown is on. Half a million supporters of comprehensive immigration reform rallied across the country o...

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Weekly Pulse: What Would Jesus Insure?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, The American Prospect, Sue Lowden, Samaritan Ministries International, Health Care Reform Bill, Bankruptcy, Bartering for Health Care, Feminist, Tpmdc, Patient Privacy, Medicaid, Feministing, Lori Ziganto, Harry Reid, HCSM, Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, Mother Jones, Health Care Sharing Ministries, Health Care, Medicare Expansion, Anti-Choice, Medicare, Pro-Choice, Politics News
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Christian groups are trying to create a run around health care reform by setting up alternative, unreg...

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Weekly Pulse: Nebraska's Sweeping Abortion Ban on Colision Course with Supreme Court

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tapped, Supreme Court, Abortion, Mental Health, Dr George Tiller, RH Reality Check, Nebraska, The Progressive, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Ableist, Feministing, Pro-Choice, Dan Heineman, Health Care, Justice John Paul Stevens, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, Nebraska's Republican governor Dave Heineman signed a sweeping new law that criminalizes al...

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Weekly Diaspora: The Game Plan for Immigration Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michele Waslin, The American Prospect, Gabriel Arana, John Tomasic, Colorado Independent, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Feministing, Tom Tancredo, Barack Obama, Alternet, Ice, Seth Wessler, Immigration Reform, Laura Flanders, Grittv, New America Media, Inter Press Service, William Fisher, Chuck Schumer, Sandip Roy, National Guard, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), started a hubbub among comprehensive immigration reform advocates last week when h...

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Weekly Pulse: Prostate Health is Girly and Other Health Care Paradoxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comprehensive Sex-Ed, Abortion, Sex Ed, Rand Paul, Libertarian, RH Reality Check, Abstinence, Kentucky, The Nation, Pro-Life, Feministing, Republican, Alternet, Guttmacher Institute, Prostate Cancer, Health, Talking Points Memo, Shelby Knox, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger This week's health care news was full of mind-bending paradoxes: Prostate health is girly, abstinence-...

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Weekly Pulse: Obama Signs Health Reform Bill, Backlash Begins

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bart Stupak, Abortion, Deem and Pass, RH Reality Check, Naral, Tpm, Reproductive Rights, Washington Monthly, TPM Muckraker, The Nation, Pro-Life, Feministing, Planned Parenthood, Washington Independent, Orly Taitz, Reproductive Health, Health Care Reform, Anti-Choice, Teabagger, Healthcare Reform, Tea Party, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Louise Slaughter, Reconciliation, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, President Obama signed health care reform into law. As Mike Lillis explains in the Washingt...

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Weekly Diaspora: No Sleep 'Till March on Washington

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: TPM DC, Immigration, Feministing, The Yong Turks, March for America, Latin America, Barack Obama, Alternet, Home News
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By Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger This Sunday, tens of thousands of people plan to march on the National Mall in Washington, DC in an effort to...

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Weekly Diaspora: More Hypocrisy in Arizona

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: TPMMuckraker, Immigration Reform, Grittv, Michigan Messenger, DREAM Act, Racewire, Immigration, New America Media, The Nation, Feministing, Alternet, Politics News
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by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger After passing what is arguably the harshest immigration law in the country--SB 1070 forces local police to adhe...

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Weekly Immigration Wire: It's a Multicultural World, After All

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Independent, Racewire, New America Media, Feministing, Iowa Independent, Alternet, World News
The Media Consortium

In an increasingly connected world, our immigration policy impacts the health and well-being of many peoples and economies.

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Women Connecting Across the Generational Divide: From Gloria Steinem to Courtney Martin

Marianne Schnall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Women, Ana Nogales, Courtney Martin, Feminism, Helen Thomas, Omega Institute, Elizabeth Lesser, Feministing, Healthy Living News
Marianne Schnall

This Omega Institute conference sets out to build bridges across generations that inspire and empower women to change the world.

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Weekly Pulse: The Bill the House Built

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Prospect, Insurance, House, Health, Tpm, Tmc, Feministing, Washington Monthly, In These Times, Bill, Healthcare, Politics News
The Media Consortium

This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care

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Why Is America So Obsessed with Virginity?

Anastasia Kousakis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Women's Rights, Abstinence Only Education, Women's Issues, Feminist, Reproductive Rights, Anti-Feminism, Virgins, Integrity Balls, Reproductive Health, The Purity Myth, Feminism, Sexuality, Women's Sexuality, Pornography, Virgin, Homosexuality, Feministing.com, Birth Control, Abstinence Only, Virginity Pledges, Women's Health, Sex, Feministing, Jessica Valenti, Women and Politics, Abstinence Education, Virginity, Purity Balls, Feminists, Valenti, Bristol Palin, Virginity Movement, Style News
Anastasia Kousakis

As a concept, virginity is more dangerous than not, because it puts us into these virgin or not categories, which doesn't really give us a very nuanced perspective or understanding of sexuality.

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