The Riot
2 years ago
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Sign An Open Letter To Congress Regarding H.R. 1

Well, they did it.  The House has passed H.R. 1 which defunds Planned Parenthood:

The U.S. House of Representatives has just voted to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care.

It is the most dangerous legislative assault in our history, and it cannot go unanswered. We — Planned Parenthood and the three million women, men, and teens who are at risk of losing access to basic care — need you to stand united with us now.

Sign our open letter to every single representative in the House who voted for this cruel, unconscionable, unthinkable law, and to every senator who still has a chance to stop it.

Click the link in the title of this post to sign the letter.  Please.

3 years ago
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Don't Worry, It's Just a LITTLE BIT of FGM

Nice bit of accommodationism there. “We’ll just mutilate baby girls a little bit, to make the misogynist patriarchal assholes happy.” Well, we have no obligation to make misogynist patriarchal assholes happy at all, especially not when it involves waving scalpels about in the genitals of children.

3 years ago
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REBLOG IF YOU BELIEVE IN FREEDOM TO CRITIQUE

So…let’s get this out of the way right now. This a recent Ralph Lauren ad. Apparently, Bobblehead Chic is the new black. Or something.

Seriously, this ad is terrible. So terrible, in fact, that several well-known and read websites posted the ad along with criticism/mockery of it.

And then, Ralph Lauren’s lawyers made them stop.

Cory Doctorow says it better in his article here and gives much more of the ins and outs of the legality of the situation. But the basic point is, this sort of censorship is ridiculous. I’m sure if the articles were mindlessly praising the advertisement, they’d have been allowed to remain online.

But this is Twitter. And Twitter has the power of reblog. So I’m asking you, readers, if you have a Tumblr REBLOG IF YOU BELIEVE IN OUR FREEDOM TO CRITIQUE. Reblog if you believe we still have the right to say we don’t like something, especially when it’s something as harmless as an epically terrible fashion ad.