Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 03/24/2010
Obvious Child
So recently I got an email from Gillian Robespierre, a filmmaker, letting me know about her short film Obvious Child. I’ll let her take it from here, but before I do I have to say I really, really enjoyed this film. It’s so nice to see a new perspective on an issue that has been handled so singularly in pop culture.
I made a short film earlier this year called “Obvious Child” It stars Jenny Slate (the F bomb dropper on SNL). She plays Donna, a twenty-something living in Brooklyn. After getting dumped she has a spontaneous one-night-stand and finds that she is pregnant. She decides that an abortion is the only option for her. On her way to get the abortion, she happens to run into Peter, the …
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Awareness, Feminism | Posted by Jaded16 on 03/3/2010
Someone Needs To Take The Negative PR Off Of Abortion’s back
As I was reading this post on “Abortion Doulas” I got to thinking about being pro-choice, abortion in general and about abortion in India in particular (as this is where I live). Out here, we tend to look at abortion as something shameful, disgusting, a thing to keep under wraps. No “good Indian” girl ever gets an abortion. If she does, people whisper about her in hushed tones for what she did was indeed disgusting. Interestingly, this is the attitude for abortion only for single women, unwed mothers etc. Within the sanctity of marriage, many women are forced to abort their unborn female fetuses. That isn’t entirely looked down upon. In fact, aborting the girl child is seen as the only solution.
Most T.V ads and posters somehow …
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Feminism | Posted by Veronica N on 02/10/2010
“But Baby…”
I am a 14 year old girl, and a freshman in high school. I go to a great school, have amazing friends, and have found a love so deep and so early it’s impossible to understand. That said, I am also a feminist. I am relatively new to the feminism sphere sure, but I have always been fast holding in my opinions, beliefs, and ideals. One big thing for me is pro-choice legality.
Today, I mentioned the fact that although I don’t care for either Super Bowl team this year, I am for the Saints because of Scott Fujita and what he stands for. My boyfriend has never taken me for a feminist and thought I didn’t seem like the ‘type’. He likes feminists, he likes me, and so there …
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Feminism, Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/2/2010
The Super Bowl and Abortion
This year I, like nearly 100 million other Americans, will watch the super bowl. However, this fact has very little to do with the game of football. I have no idea what occurs in this game, and if you asked me to name more than 3 football games I’d probably just walk away. The few times I’ve gone to see my high school team play I’ve left even more confused than before. No, I watch the super bowl for the ads.
Let’s be honest, the ads are awesome. About 99% of the time I watch T.V. ads make me want to bang my head against a cement block repeatedly (a lethal combination of sexist and stupid), Super Bowl ads are different. First of all, they’re well put together because…well they …
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Awareness, Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 11/17/2009
Stop Stupak
Usually, when I come down to the kitchen for a snack (also known as an excuse to take a study break) I can tell what mail my Mom is sorting through by the look on her face. The annoyed-pursed-lips-eye-roll is usually elicited by a Home and Garden magazine of some type (Martha Stewart is defiantly not listed amongst my Mom’s personal heroes). Glazed over, resigned boredom can usually be attributed to a water or electricity bill. But the truly depressed, pissed off face of injustice can only be caused by one thing.
My family has struggled with the issue of health care ever since I can remember. Because of a pre-existing condition my Mom has and the fact that my Dad is independently employed, the business of staying healthy has …
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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 11/3/2009
Billboard of aborted fetuses outside Phoenix high school
A few weeks ago, this 22-foot billboard truck, showing a first trimester aborted fetus, circled a Phoenix area high school. The billboards were sponsored by The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) [Warning: Graphic Site], who chose Camelback High School because of their “innovative and proactive ‘school choice’ campaign.”
The Regional Director for CBR, John Walsh, defended his actions, saying, “High school students are sexually active and often resort to having an abortion in order to escape from the unintended consequences of their promiscuity. They need to be educated about what abortion looks like before they commit to such a course of action.”
I’m sorry…this is education? There is nothing educational about this billboard. And insinuating that an abortion is the easy way out? Yes, we all know …
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Awareness | Posted by Sheridan T on 10/28/2009
Speaking Out Against CPC’s
The Feminist Majority Campus Team has declared the week of Halloween (October 25-31) The CPC Week of Action, aimed at exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centers for what they really are: Pro-life organizations preying on vulnerable women and feeding them fear and guilt when it comes to abortion.
Seriously, these organizations will do anything.
Starting in kindergarten, and continuing on through middle school, I went to a catholic school. In front of our school was always a sign for one of these centers, with a picture of the Virgin Mary and the promise of someone who will “really listen to you.” It turns out this center is run by my local Catholic Pro-Life Organization, a group that holds candle vigils outside Planned Parenthoods and who try to say abortion will give you …
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Feminism | Posted by Steph on 10/7/2009
Giant, Pro-Choice Mountains
So, I was in Law class today, which is taught by an awesome teacher who I really like. And she notified everyone that she’d received mail info of a grant available only to Law 11 or 12 students in BC, the
info sheet for which she handed out.
Now, I’m pretty big on scholarships. They’re handy! That said, I read the information and rules page – fairly straightforward – good english, double-spaced, legible, don’t submit more than one essay. But then I turned the page: here’s what I saw (emphasis mine).
The competition is open to grade 11 or 12 BC secondary school students, and is designed to encourage students to recognize the dignity of every human life.
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ESSAY TOPICS (600-700 WORDS): CHOOSE ONE.
Topic 1. In recent years student societies in a number of
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