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In July, when Focus Features began ramping up promotion for its forthcoming film On the Basis of Sex, many news sources reported that Felicity Jones would play a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she went...
View ArticleBest of 2018: Bloggers Pick Their Favorite Posts
When 2018 began, we weren’t even a full year into the Trump administration, and we were staring down the barrel at another three years of it. Luckily, as 2018 got going, so did we. The Resistance...
View ArticleBook Club: Shout Your Abortion
Shout Your Abortion hit the book shelves in time for us to celebrate the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, 2019. That Supreme Court decision (finally) recognized that abortion is a normal...
View ArticleThe Past Isn’t Always in the Past: Covington Catholic and the Politics of...
Nathan Phillips (center) leads a dance at the Indigenous Peoples March. Image (detail): Joe Flood It was hard to miss the video that went viral on the weekend of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. On...
View ArticleWomen Harnessing the Law
Happy Women’s History Month! Throughout this country’s history, the law hasn’t been consistently fair across gender lines, classifying women as second-class citizens and making assumptions about people...
View ArticleWho Knew? Hobby Lobby Is a Person
Five years ago this week, on June 30, 2014, for the first time in the history of the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that some for-profit corporations could, like human beings, exercise...
View ArticleBefore Roe v. Wade: The 50th Anniversary of a Landmark California Case
Demonstrator at New York City Women’s March, January 21, 2017. Photo: © Edith Marie Photography “Should abortion be legalized?” That was the question posed on a forum in 1964 on Pacifica Radio. Nine...
View Article2019: A Year in Blogging
Nearly three years into the Trump administration, a lot of us are tired. The headlines got more and more draining, culminating in impeachment proceedings at the end of the year. But in response, we’re...
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