What We Missed
Queens University covers the launch of our tour! We'll be at Boston College on Monday and Wheaton on Wednesday. Contact the amazing Martha (polk.marthaatgmaildotcom)if you'd like to book us for an upcoming stop.
Corruption compounds the discrimination women already experience.
Women's eNews covers An $18 million "Start Strong" initiative to prevent teen dating
violence.
Jenni Prokopy founder and editor of ChronicBabe.com, an online resource for young women with chronic illness, writes about health care reform over at the Women's Media Center.
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Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment May Be Stripped By Senior Dem, Sources Say
Should be:
"Women in Somalia contend with all variety of threats to their lives while trying to flee persecution."
Unfortunate misspell.
If over 50 percent of women in 11 (and probably many, many more) nations are experiencing something (re:"Sexual dysfunction affects more than half of menopausal Hispanic women over 40, an 11-nation study said Wednesday.") WHY are we calling it dysfunctional??
Because it's a dysfunction.
Just because a lot of people have a disease doesn't mean it stops being a disease!
Is anyone else wondering how they chose the stock photo for the article on menopausal Hispanic women? Because I'm guessing your average over-40 Hispanic woman doesn't look like that.
I have finally read "Yes Means Yes" by Jessica valenti and Jaclyn friedman and loved it so much that I just had to write a long two-part review of thsi amazing book.
It's easily the best thing I have read in a long while. I know that everybody here must have read it as soon as it came out, but if you haven't, you definitely should.
Here is my review:
http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2009/10/yes-means-yes-review-part-i.html
http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2009/10/yes-means-yes-review-part-i.html