Today…
on the 57th anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, another march for racial justice is gathering on Mall.
Are you going? Hang onto this: a list of bathrooms, first-aid stations, places to get water, etc.
is Red Wine Day. If you are heading, you 1000% deserve a sangria after.
Today’s music selection no longer seems appropriate, but it was the first thing in my head when I woke up. I don’t wanna… I don’t think so.
But.
I mean… Are you gonna liberate us girls from male, white, corporate oppression? Huh?
Abortion
At the RNC
Republicans highlight Trump's 'pro-life' record but refuse to acknowledge COVID deaths
Lisa Needham | The American Independent
More than 180,000 people have died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but you wouldn't know it from the convention. Instead, the speakers have deployed "pro-life" tropes in service of only one political issue: banning abortion.
The 19th | Shefali Luthra | RNC emphasizes abortion rather than the pandemic
OK, Abby Johnson. Let's Talk About Abortion and Racism
Mary Ziegler, Rachel Rebouché | Newsweek
No matter what you make of Johnson's speech, a deeper public conversation about reproduction and racial justice is overdue.
Bitch Media | Rachel Lewis | RNC Speaker Abby Johnson Wants Cops to Racially Profile Her Black Son
Yes, My Abortion *Did* Have a Smell
Danielle Campoamor | Cosmopolitan
During a speech at the RNC, anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said the procedure "has a smell." She's right. It's just not what she thinks.
Dismantling the RNC’s Legacy of Hostility To Abortion Access
Andrea Miller | Ms. Magazine
This week, the Republican National Convention has featured graphic and deceptive rails against abortion—the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that Trump has made mainstream over the last few years.
Indiana
Post Tribune | Indiana’s latest abortion law and 18-hour ultrasound requirement: ‘The wait was already there’
Post Tribune | Northwest Indiana NOW members denounce abortion ultrasound law
Texas
LGBTQ
Antigay State Dept. Must Grant Citizenship to Same-Sex Couple's Child
Trudy Ring | The Advocate
The State Department is wrong to consider children born "out of wedlock" if they're born abroad to married same-sex couples, a federal judge rules.
Study shows gender dysphoria is established by age seven
Out in Jersey Magazine
A new study from Cedars-Sinai finds that 73% of the transgender women and 78% of the transgender men first experienced gender dysphoria by age 7.
How COVID-19 Left LGBTQIA+ Youth In Foster Care Even More At Risk
Amber Leventry | Romper
"Child welfare systems rely on networks of mandatory reporters and engaged community and family members to witness and report the signs of abuse and neglect," explained the report, warning that due to school closings and social distancing requirements, "the pandemic has removed youth from sight, rendering abuse and neglect nearly invisible to many."
RNC
LGBTQ Nation | Gay Republican implies LGBTQ rights come “at expense of others” during convention speech
Metro Weekly | Equality groups denounce Richard Grenell, say he doesn't speak for LGBTQ community
Gavin Grimm
GoMag | Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Student In Virginia Transgender Bathroom Case
Mother Jones | A top court resoundingly affirms trans rights in Gavin Grimm’s battle for equality
Romper | Transgender Student Finally Wins Right To Use Boys Bathroom After Years Of Fighting
Alaska
Anchorage Just Voted In a Historic Ban on Conversion Therapy
Nico Lang | them.
The Anchorage Assembly voted 9-2 in favor of an ordinance which would penalize licensed practitioners who provide any kind of medical or psychological treatment to “change” the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ+ youth.
The Advocate Magazine | Anchorage Becomes First Alaskan City to Ban Conversion Therapy
Pregnancy & Parenting
Why We Need Black Women's Breastfeeding Week
Tory Lanez | BUST Magazine
Breastfeeding is one of the best preventative natural medicines … However, not all women are able to do so: Black women are significantly less likely to breastfeed than any race.
Perspective: What We Can Learn From Efforts To Address The Black Maternal Health Crisis During COVID-19
Stephanie Bray, Monica McLemore | Center for Health Journalism
The dual pandemic of COVID-19 and structural racism has unleashed an ongoing reckoning over the nation’s failure to address deep-seated racial disparities in health and access to care.
Broadening postpartum coverage could boost maternal health
Amber Bellazaire | Michigan Advance
[B]roadening health care coverage during the postpartum period would be a meaningful step on the path toward improving maternity care and ensuring that women receive the health services they need in the months that follow childbirth
Hospital policy saw Native American moms separated from babies during COVID-19
Jo Yurcaba | Motherly
A federal investigation found that Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico singled out pregnant Native American women for COVID-19 testing based on their zip code, and then separated some of them from their newborns without proper consent until the test results came back.
Parents Under Pressure Consider Quitting Work To Teach Kids At Home
Lisa Ryan | ideastream
With fewer options for childcare and a need to be at home with kids who are not physically at school, Jenny Hawkins, an economics professor at Case Western Reserve University, said changes to education during to the pandemic will impact all families, especially low-income households.
USA Today | Chaos reigns in some schools with in-person learning. Hundreds of kids are learning at home.
Reproductive Health & Justice
How Black Lives Matter is looking to turn protests into policy change
Maya King | Politico
The BREATHE Act, a four-part proposal … aims to codify the movement’s core objective: redirecting federal funds away from police, prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system and into underserved communities of color.
USPS delays threaten women's access to birth control
Emma Hinchliffe | Fortune
Changes in U.S. Postal Service operations have disrupted everything from baby chicks on their way to farmers to prescriptions sent via the Veterans Administration. For some who rely on the postal service, the delays have interfered with an equally important delivery: birth control.
Indiana
Racial disparities in Indiana health care: what’s being done?
Breanna Cooper | The Indianapolis Recorder
Diabetes. Hypertension. Infant and maternal mortality. COVID-19. All of these issues are more likely to affect — and kill — Black Hoosiers at a disproportionate rate.
Work & Money
How stereotypes, stigmas impact Black women's money
Keisha Fields | The Atlanta Voice
When Black women are promoted into or hired into coveted positions, we are often expected to be the savior of all things. Oftentimes, there seems to be an unwritten expectation that Black women should be able to be more, do more and fix all of the internal structures that are broken — all while not being too visible, too vocal and not being equitably compensated.
Reveal everyone’s pay
Larisa Klebe, Rebecca Long | Boston Globe
Policies prohibiting businesses from asking job candidates about their salary history function by hiding wage data; policies mandating that employers post salary ranges would function by revealing wage data. But both steps can shift power from businesses to workers.
🠲 A Direct Legacy of Slavery, Domestic Worker Exploitation Is On the Rise In the U.S.
Maurizio Guerrero | In These Times
The pandemic has left already vulnerable workers even more exposed to abuses on the job.
COVID-19 Leaves Teachers With a Terrible Choice: Their Work or Their Health
Abbie Synan | Rewire.News
As the summer winds down and some schools start in-person classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students’ safety has been at the forefront of concerns. But what about teachers’ safety?
'There have been new challenges': Women running for office aim to balance new demands during COVID-19
Laurel Demkovich | Spokesman-Review
When COVID-19 forced everyone to stay at home in March, former state Rep. Kristine Reeves knew her campaign would change in ways many other candidates’ wouldn’t. Reeves, who has two young children, now had to balance campaigning for a seat in Congress and figuring out how to home school her children.
More, More, More
The Progressive New Face of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
Sarah Jones | The Cut
Aaron Coleman committed revenge porn at age 12. Now he’s 19, and wants a second chance.
If you’ve worked in the progressive movement for more than a minute, you’ve seen it.
Decriminalizing Migration Is A Gender Justice Issue
Kylie Cheung | DAME Magazine
Decriminalization of migration is as much a matter of immigrant justice as it is gender justice, and should be central to feminist and abolitionist movements alike. The militarization of borders and criminalization of undocumented folks directly contributes to alarming rates of gender violence targeting migrant women and girls.
"I Felt Beautiful, But You Made Me Feel Different": Black Women on Simply Existing With Hair in America
Chloe Hall | ELLE
ELLE.com brought together 20 women telling their hair stories—from a beauty editor whose middle school principal scolded her for wearing braids to an engineer swarmed at a party by a handsy “Can I touch your hair?” crowd. Listen to what they have to say.
White Southern Women Have Always Defended an America That Doesn't Exist
Emily Alford | Jezebel
Just as Gone With The Wind worked to re-write history by centering the Civil War on pretty Southern women, Trump’s army of belles work to reframe a racist, sexist, and utterly regressive presidency as an administration dedicated to preserving a country where all women currently enjoy the pretty world Margaret Mitchell imagined.
The Difference Women Voters Make
Carrie Baker | Ms. Magazine
Women are now the majority of voters, casting close to 10 million more votes than men in the 2016 elections. That year, 73.7 million women voted, whereas only 63.8 million men voted, reports the Center for American Progress.
From suffragists to coders: How the Girl Scouts continues to empower young women
Isabel Lohman | USA Today
As women fought for and won the fight for the right to vote, Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low mentored young women on how their government worked before they could even fully participate in it.