Bossed and bothered
Today…
is Monday. I’m coming to grips with it.
is the birthday of Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005).
is the birthday of Rita Hester (1963–1998), a Black trans woman whose murder on November 28, 1998 inspired the “Remembering Our Dead” campaign that became the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
is a full Beaver moon, so named for the time of year when beavers finish building their dens to prepare for winter.
Abortion
The Atlantic | Biden Could Expand Abortion Access, Even Without the Senate | Greer Donley
The path lies not in legislation but through the deregulation of mifepristone—the only drug the FDA has approved to safely and effectively terminate an early pregnancy.
VICE | The Amy Coney Barrett Abortion Arms Race Is On | Carter Sherman
At least one state is already gearing up to give the conservative darling a chance to take down legalized abortion in the United States.
Georgia
Newsweek | Doug Collins Attacks Raphael Warnock by Saying 'There's No Such Thing as a Pro-Choice Pastor' | Christina Zhao
LGBTQ
AP | Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights | Elana Schor, David Crary
As president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists.
LGBTQ Nation | HRC President Alphonso David on how Joe Biden & Kamala Harris should advance LGBTQ rights | Molly Sprayregen
CNN | Court's ruling raises serious worries on same-sex marriage | Austin Sarat, Dennis Aftergut
When religious rights conflict with other hard-won rights, including same-sex marriage, Alito and his colleagues will likely favor the former. They will not let precedent stand in the way.
NBC News | Nearly half of LGBTQ adults are religious, U.S. study finds | Dan Avery
Almost half of LGBTQ adults in the United States are religious, according to a recent report from the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute.
Pregnancy & Parenting
NBC News | Meghan's royal miscarriage story underscores broader problem of reproductive stigma | Danielle Campoamor
Birth isn’t a romantic act dependent on a few graceful pushes. Not every pregnancy ends with a baby. Not every person who gets pregnant wants to be.
Texas
Spectrum News San Antonio | Austin Group Takes on Racial Disparities Highlighting Black Maternal Mortality | Lakisha Lemons
Black Mamas ATX is on a mission to make sure women of color thrive and survive during childbirth. The group provides resources to expecting mothers to overcome the fear of giving birth, given the grave statistics surrounding it.
Reproductive Health & Justice
NPR | The U.S. And Equitable Access To Menstruation Products | Michel Martin
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf of Period Equity about where the U.S. stands on providing free menstruation products nationally and how the pandemic has affected access to them.
South Carolina
Post and Courier | A birth control program secures access to thousands in SC. It's about to run out of money. | Mary Katherine Wildeman
A South Carolina nonprofit that built a birth control access program says it has helped guarantee reproductive healthcare for 160,000 women. But with funding running short, the organization wants the state to step in to keep it going.
Work & Money
AP | Biden chooses an all-female senior White House press team | Alexandra Jaffe
President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.
CNN | Covid pandemic disproportionately hurting women, UN warns | Sharon Braithwaite, Sarah Adel Diab, Amy Cassidy
The Covid-19 pandemic has set gender equality back years, with women around the world taking on the "lion's share" of extra domestic chores, the United Nations reported on Thursday. It comes one day after the international body warned that the pandemic is driving further violence against refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls.
CNBC | With more childcare and domestic work, the pandemic poses a 'real danger' to women’s progress, UN finds | Vicky McKeever
U.S. News & World Report | U.N. Report Puts Spotlight on 'Shocking' Views About Domestic Abuse | Kaia Hubbard
The Hill | Voters elected a record number of Black women to Congress this year - none were Republican | Aris Folley
The Republican Party will start another congressional term in January without a Black female lawmaker in its ranks.
The Hill | A cure for working mothers during COVID-19 and beyond | Adrienne Schweer
A new Morning Consult and Bipartisan Policy Center survey digs into the impact that coronavirus has had on working women and the results are shocking – while 22% of all women have left the workforce during the pandemic, 42% of women with children under the age of two have left work and 41% of women either left the workforce or know a woman who has.
Ms. | "Women Doing Whatever We Want": The Little-Known Fight for Women’s Financial Rights | Megan Botel
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg reignited a conversation about women’s rights—including financial ones, which modern Western women hardly question. Now, with potential rollbacks looming, experts recall the decades of work to secure landmark women’s rights.
West Virginia
Inside Appalachia | Working Parents, Childcare Workers and Children Are Struggling, How They Are Finding A Way Forward | Roxy Todd
Wisconsin
Green Bay Press-Gazette | 'Child care is a workforce development issue': How Wisconsin companies are meeting child care needs to retain workers | Nusaiba Mizan