Today…
is a very good food day: apples, chichi beans, pumpkin cheesecake, and International Day of the Nacho.
in 1967, ~100,000 people marched on Washington to protest the Vietnam War. You’ve seen this picture before; it’s from that day.
Every day with the learning: I was so ready to snark about Chad in that picture, more so when I found his name was George Edgerly Harris III. Was, before he moved to San Francisco, changed his name to Hibiscus (not a word), formed a gay liberation theater collective called The Cockettes before dying in 1982 of “AIDS-related illness.”
Maybe someday I’ll lose the knee-jerk sarcasm, but, um. Not today. Probably not tomorrow. I’ll let you know.
Supreme Court
CNN | Barrett ducks questions on presidential power and systemic racism in new answers to Senate | Dan Berman
Coney Barrett submitted written responses to scores of questions from Senate Judiciary Committee members Tuesday night ahead of her expected confirmation next week. Coney Barrett repeatedly declined to discuss voting rights, coronavirus and the 2020 election, presidential pardon power, abortion, the ACA and other issues that could appear before the Supreme Court in the coming months.
LGBTQ
AP | Barrett Was Trustee at Private School With Anti-Gay Policies | Michael Biesecker, Michelle Smith
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that openly gay and lesbian teachers weren’t welcome in the classroom.Courthouse News Service | Opponents in Landmark Gay Marriage Case Unite Against Barrett Nomination | Megan Mineiro
The named plaintiff and defendant in the landmark Supreme Court case that upheld the fundamental rights of same-sex couples stood together Tuesday in opposition to Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the nation’s highest court.LGBTQ Nation | The Supreme Court has a mixed history on LGBTQ rights. Will it take a turn for the worse? | Victoria A. Brownworth
2020
The Atlantic | The Wine Moms Are Just Getting Started | Elaine Godfrey
How anti-Trump women in America’s suburbs are ushering in a new era of political activismFiveThirtyEight | Why Trump Is Losing White Suburban Women | Amelia Thomson- DeVeaux, Meredith Conroy, Erin Cassese
Abortion
Medium | New study finds that women giving birth in states with fewer abortion restrictions have better outcomes | Steph Black
The Nation | Women’s Rights, No Strings Attached | Karen Schumacher
Refinery29 | An Anti-Abortion Law Killed Rosie Jimenez 43 Years Ago. It’s Still In Effect | Zoe Avellan
Refinery29 | I Had An At-Home Abortion During The Pandemic. It Was Easier Than I’d Thought. | Elizabeth Gulino
Refinery29 | Abortion Bans Pose A Danger To All Mothers. For Black Women, They’re Especially Damaging | Stephanie Long
Refinery29 | Roe v. Wade Might Be Overturned Soon — This Is Worse Than You Think | Molly Longman
Refinery29 | This Is The Perfect Reason To Have An Abortion | Mirel Zaman
Scary Mommy | I’m An Abortion Provider In Politically Hostile States––This Is What I Want You To Know | Julie Burkhart
Kentucky
Rewire News Group | Chief Justice John Roberts’ Abortion Time Bomb Goes Off in Kentucky | Imani Gandy
Tennessee
The American Independent | Federal judge: No, you can't force people to wait to have an abortion | Lisa Needham
The Tennessee Legislature ignored doctors and other experts when it passed the unnecessary waiting period law.
Texas
North Texas Daily | Anti-abortion events are aimed at inflicting terror | Brett Davis
LGBTQ
Filter by yesterday and today; search for “Baskin”; select all; delete; confirm: YES. There we go.
ABC News | Black Trans Lives Matter: Activists call for inclusion in racial justice movement | Kiara Brantley-Jones, Steve Osunsami, Ashley Schwartz-Lavares
The Advocate Magazine | Report: Most LGBTQ+ Students Verbally Harassed in School | Mey Rude
Anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and bullying remain common in U.S. schools, and some experiences of harassment, such as hearing slurs, are near-universal, according to a new report from GLSEN, the nation's leading organization dealing with LGBTQ+ issues in education.INSIDER | A transgender woman was shot and killed on National Coming Out Day amid the deadliest year on record for trans people in the US | Canela Lopez
Miami Herald | Aides complained about Pompeo event with Florida group that backs gay conversion therapy | Michael Wilner, Bryan Lowry, Alex Daugherty
Daily Kos | Pompeo reportedly ignored outraged employees to address group that supports 'ex-gay' therapy | Gabe Ortiz
LGBTQ Nation | State Department staff raised hell before Mike Pompeo spoke at an anti-LGBTQ hate group’s fundraiser | Bil Browning
Metro Weekly | State Department aides balked at Mike Pompeo's plan to address anti-LGBTQ group | John Riley
Out Magazine | State Department Objected to Pomepo's Speech to Anti-LGBTQ+ Group | Donald Padgett
Out Magazine | Watch Tiffany Trump's Trainwreck of a Speech at Trump's Pride Rally | Mikelle Street
Watch if you must, but this is probably all you need. (You’re welcome.)
Daily Beast | Tiffany Trump’s Ridiculous Election Campaign Hits Its “LGBQIA” Nadir | Tim Teeman
Jezebel | Tiffany Trump Awkwardly Courts LGBTQ Voters By Role-Playing 'Straight Girl at a Gay Bar' | Ashley Reese
Law and Crime | Tiffany Trump’s Cringeworthy ‘Pride’ Speech Completely Ignored Trump’s Legal Attacks on LGBTQ Community | Elura Nanos
More from The Advocate, The American Independent, LGBTQ Nation, The Mary Sue, Refinery29, USA Today, Vanity Fair
Alaska
LGBTQ Nation | Austin Quinn-Davidson to become Anchorage’s first gay & first woman mayor | Alex Bollinger
Pregnancy & Parenting
People Magazine | Parents Working from Home Say Kids Have Interrupted at Least 25 Zoom Meetings, Survey Finds
Results showed kids come stumbling into digital boardrooms, client calls and other work videos or calls as many as five times a dayDeseret News | Kids have interrupted 25 Zoom meetings each week for work-from-home parents, new survey says | Valerie Jones
BuzzFeed News | The World Feels Like It’s Falling Apart. These Women Decided To Get Pregnant Anyway. | Clarissa-Jan Lim
The Lane Report | More nurse-midwives needed to address racial disparities in maternity care | Jake Kratzenberg
Rewire News Group | How Queering Parenting Helps All Families | Sarah Neilson
USA Today | Opening 'so many doors for families': COVID underscores importance of wrap-around care for new moms and children | Jayne O'Donnell
Louisiana
Times-Picayune / New Orleans Advocate | Pregnancy help dangerously distant in Louisiana's maternity care 'deserts’ | Emily Woodruff
Reproductive Health & Justice
HealthDay | Most U.S. Women Under 50 Use Contraception: Report | Steven Reinberg
Most American women between 15 and 49 years of age use birth control, according to a new U.S. government report. Between 2017 and 2019, 65% of those women used some form of contraception, according to the CDC.MedPage Today | Almost Two-Thirds of U.S. Women on Birth Control Pre-Pandemic | Elizabeth Hlavinka
Refinery29 | In Puerto Rico, A History Of Colonization Led To An Atrocious Lack of Reproductive Freedom | Raquel Reichard
Work & Money
NPR | Why Women Are Leaving The Workforce | Stacey Vanek Smith
Bloomberg Opinion | Covid-19 Explodes the Myth That Women ‘Opt’ Out | Sarah Green Carmichael
Georgia Public Broadcasting | Even The Most Successful Women Are Sidelining Careers For Family In Pandemic | Andrea Hsu
NJ.com | How the coronavirus pandemic is putting women out of work | Brianna Kudisch
Above the Law | The Glass Ceiling Report: Law Firms ‘Fundamentally Struggle’ To Support Women | Staci Zaretsky, Brad Wuorinen
The American Prospect | How to Finance Universal Family Care | Robert Kuttner
The Chronicle of Philanthropy | New Campaigns Seek to Generate More Than $1 Billion for Women and Girls | Alex Daniels
Jezebel | Jeffrey Toobin Was Allegedly Sexually Inappropriate Long Before He Jerked Off on Zoom | Shannon Melero
The Mary Sue | New Yorker Writer Jeffrey Toobin Suspended After Exposing Himself in Zoom Meeting | Chelsea Steiner
The Startup | Sexism in Tech: An Inconvenient Truth | Rob Doyle
Culture has been a major culprit in allowing gender equality to grow to the level that it has.
More, More, More
MIT Technology Review | “I burned with indignation” | Anna Nowogrodzki
In the early 1900s, Florence Luscomb, Katharine Dexter McCormick, and other MIT alumnae worked tirelessly to secure the right to vote for women.The New Republic | An Anti-Rape Movement Without Police | Melissa Gira Grant
The 19th | The spread of conspiracies and disinformation by women on social media | Mariel Padilla
“The QAnon stuff infiltrated Instagram and seeped into the suburban consciousness of American women to a certain extent, and they bought into it.”Scary Mommy | Op-Ed: Tomi Lahren Is The Female Embodiment Of Toxic Masculinity | Lindsay Wolf