In These Times has Feministing’s fave cartoonist Mikhaela Reid interviewing the very cool Stephanie McMillan. McMillan is the political cartoonist who created the “ask Bill Napoli� strip.
If you need a reminder: South Dakota senator Bill Napoli said that the only women who should be able to have abortions are religious virgins who were "brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it." Nice, huh?
Well it looks like McMillan’s cartoon did the trick--Napoli was flooded with calls asking him things like “Tampons or pads?� Amazing.
McMillan auctioned off the cartoon and gave the proceeds to pro-choice orgs in South Dakota.
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Inspired by Stephanie, and having first discussed with her stealing her idea and getting her approval, my own cartoon is also for sale now on EBay, as well as Cafe Press. All proceeds will go to fight the South Dakota law. If you're interested, please go to http://hypnocrites.blogspot.com for more info.
Sorry for the self-promotion. I hope it's okay for a good cause.
It's totally okay; I was actually going to post on this later!
You can go watch the footage of him saying that here. You think it's scary to read? Watch him say it. Oh god...
At last, hope springs eternal.
Heh, that made me very happy.