White House petition: allow healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood →
#rights
#gay rights
A lot of straight people aren’t even aware of the bizarre, anachronistic restriction on blood donation by gay men (and anyone who’s had sex with a man who has sex with men).
(Source: segoli)
Photo credit: Donna Grethen / Tribune Media Services
(via Who won the ‘war on women’? It’s not so easy to call - Alexis Grenell)
"When you are insulted, when you are told that endless conversations about liberty do not include control of your own body, when it becomes clear that a politician views the crisis of a woman who has just been raped as an abstraction, you begin to think about sympathy, and its limits. And you begin to think about trust."
And lo, truth.
#women
#rights
The Malia Generation: Women and Obama’s Win : The New Yorker
"lots of people who are not versed in conversations about privilege, access and inclusion can have a difficult time when they’re brought into one without expecting it."
Extremely well put, if no less *head against wall frustration*. A related read from Anil Dash: racist culture is a factory defect:
#Sexism
#racism
#Technology
#power
#media
#race
#rights
#privilege
#narrative
the best companies can do when they make something offensive in culture is to explain the method of manufacture for their broken contribution to culture. The tedious, familiar pattern of issuing a non-apology apology (“We’re sorry if anyone was offended…”) and then trying to bury the entire conversation doesn’t make things better, and it puts the burden on the victims of these misadventures to right the wrongs, instead of laying it at the feet of their creators, as should be rightly done.Although I do completely, entirely and fundamentally disagree with the idea that “the ones privileged with the understanding and education about these issues…owe it to the communities we represent to carry this burden sometimes even though it’s not fair.” I agree that it’s not fair. I disagree with the premise that oppressed communities owe their oppressors anything at all.
"Imagine the people closest to you telling you, essentially, “You are fundamentally flawed and I want nothing to do with you.” Our LGBTQ brothers and sisters face this everyday. Please don’t forget that."
#LGBTQ
#rights
"I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that’s Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that’s the day of the terrorist attack. I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."
Congressman Mike Kelly, on why mandatory coverage of birth control is similar to tragedies that killed thousands of Americans. (via theatlantic)
#Politics
#Birth control
#Health care
#News
#WTF
#This is why I'm a misanthropist
#women
#rights
#feminism
(via theatlantic)
Shots, they have been fired.
(Source: keepyourselfwarm, via thesexuneducated)
