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Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, and her organization, Women on Waves, sail a ship around the world to countries where abortion is illegal. Using a hotline for communication, the activists pick up women at the port and transport them twelve miles offshore, just outside of domestic waters, where doctors on board can administer safe and legal medical abortions at sea. Their actions shock the church, infuriate the government, exhilarate the media, and provoke mass controversy and debate among the voting population, but they break no law.
They might, they hope, instead serve to save lives.
More information here
THIS IS THE COOLEST ACTIVISM EVER.
I remember when they came to Portugal in the beginning of the decade. It was very important that they came, people began debating this long time problem portugal faced. It was only five or six year later that abortion was made legal. Of course it was not just on account of them coming here, but it was very important, the way they changed the debate into something political and women’s rights related instead of religious.
(via queerveganfeminist)
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Non-discrimination policies: gender and sex, why it matters
In my public school district the non-discrimination policy includes many things, including sexual orientation. One thing that’s inconsistent is the inclusion of gender and sex. In some places sex is included, and not gender. In others gender is included, but not sex. These inconsistencies appear in the printed version of the policy in the student-parent handbooks of the various schools.
This is not a trivial issue.
- Sex is not the same as gender.
- Transgender people exist.
- Intersex people exist.
- Genderqueer people exist.
- Genderfluid people exist.
- People who have non-binary genders of all sorts exist.
- People whose sex is neither XX nor XY exist.
- People face discrimination based on their sex.
- People face discrimination based on their gender.
- Protections need to be in place.
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"I’m a woman-educated physician. I don’t know how many abortions he did, but the women in my father’s practice for whom he did abortions educated me and taught me that abortion is not about babies, it’s not about families. Abortion is about women’s hopes, dreams, potential, the rest of their lives. Abortion is a matter of survival for women."
Dr. George Tiller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V52JQ4Z3rjs (via iamdrtiller)
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pndk:
a friendly reminder to know your rights
A warning about recording/photographing police action: Police forces the nation over are using anti-wiretapping and privacy laws to destroy evidence validity and to arrest/imprison witnesses to police brutality.
(Source: feelingsinafist, via lesbianoutlaw)
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"What does virginity mean to a queer person, who may never have vaginal intercourse in her/his/hir life? What of a lesbian who chooses to never engage in any sort of penetrative sex act her entire life, does she remain some sort of super, extra virgin? If a straight man receives a blowjob, he will in all likelihood still consider himself a virgin, but a gay man receiving a blowjob may have a more complicated understanding of what it means for his sex life. In many ways, our conception of “virginity” erases or invalidates queer sex."
Virginity: Ditch It (via merde-sur-tout)
(Source: sexisnottheenemy, via iamdrtiller)
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