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      Spanish ads compare women with genital cutting to **** toys

      Posted by Shemuses

      There is great conflict among feminist activists over how to go about decreasing the prevalence of "female genital cutting," better known to most as "female genital mutilation." One of the reasons for this conflict is the tendency of "Western" feminists to impose their own worldview onto communities where we find cutting (mostly among some ethnic groups in Africa, but also found in the Middle East and Asia). For example, the importance of sexual pleasure derived from the clitoris, and the relationship between orgasm and women's liberation, is a central tenent of post-second wave feminism in the West.

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    • Why NARAL Pro-Choice America Endorsed Barack Obama

      Posted by Shemuses from Huffington Post

      Sen. Obama has been a strong advocate for a woman's right to choose throughout his career in public service. Since joining the Senate in 2005, he has worked to unite Americans on both sides of this debate behind commonsense, common-ground ways to prevent unintended pregnancy. He supports legislation to provide our teens with comprehensive sex education, prevent pharmacies from denying women access to their legal birth-control prescriptions, and increase access for family-planning services.

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      Kimala Price on Hip-Hop Feminism and Choice

      Posted by Shemuses

      During discussions with other women of color about reproductive rights, sometimes I am confronted by a sista who insists that women of color have not been actively involved in the contemporary women's movement or the reproductive rights movement, much less have been leaders in these movements. That is simply not true.

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    • Juan Crow in Georgia

      Posted by Shemuses from The Nation

      Justeen Mancha's dream of becoming a psychologist was born of the tropical heat and exploitation that have shaped farmworker life around Reidsville, Georgia, for centuries. The wiry, freckle-faced 17-year-old high school junior has toiled in drought-dry onion fields to help her mother, Maria Christina Martinez. But early one September morning in 2006, Mancha's dream was abruptly deferred.

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    ap101 comments on:

    Blogging Connects Women Across the World

    Read and comment on the Advocacy Project Peace Fellows’ blogs at http://advocacynet.org/blogs

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    11:16 am 10/22/08
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    Women accountants: still a long way to the top

    Our community encourages women to get great jobs as accountants.So if you are looking to talk with others or you just want to search for a job you should join us.Come to: http:/ www.bigfour.com and see for yourself what we can do for you.

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    thaimat comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    Her politics of racism, hate, support for Big Oil, the Alaskan Independence Party, all make her as un-MILFY as is possible, for me. Add to that her bizarre religious practises, her lying at will, even her backstabbing of her Republican patron in Alaska, all make her so repulsive as a human being, she’s the quintessential MI (would never, ever, even if she was the last woman on earth)LF.

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    7:42 pm 10/12/08
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    papadavid comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    jeff, you dirty old man….............

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    4:54 pm 10/12/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    She had me at hello.

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    12:19 pm 10/08/08
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    PeggySalwen comments on:

    HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

     The media keeps referring to Bush as a ‘Lame Duck President’, but this is just the sort of damage to freedom that people can expect from the Bush/Cheney White House before a new president is sworn into office in January.  They are expecting us to let down our guard.

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    7:05 am 7/20/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

    I think we can expect an acceleration of unfathomable, unreasonable, unstomachable executive orders and administrative rulings in the final days of the Bush administration.

    The Democratic Congress, elected to a majority in ‘06 to end the Iraq war, has taken a huge bet in not impeaching and not confronting Bush and the GOP agenda in order to keep approval numbers low enough for a sweep in November. It’s a huge doubling down – gambling with nothing less than our democracy.

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    11:51 am 7/16/08
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    Shemuses

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    Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.

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