I will learn to survive
Today…
in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as only the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
is Duran Duran Appreciation Day, hecken yeah.
Programming note: no newsletter this Thursday or Friday because Moving Day! It’s almost here! Do not ask if we’re ready!
Abortion
Ms. | Feminists Fight Fake Abortion Clinics: “No One Should Be Lied To” | Carrie Baker, Juliet Schulman-Hall
Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer | Remember Lebanon's abortion ban? Mason City Council is considering the same thing | Erin Glynn
Cincinnati Enquirer | Proposed Mason abortion ban is utterly unenforceable, divisive | Cathleen Elliott
WCPO-TV | Texas group helps Mason council members draft proposed abortion ban | Madeline Fening
WLWT-TV | Protests erupt over possible abortion ban in Mason | Mollie Lair
LGBTQ
ABA Journal | ABA House votes to oppose laws that ban transgender student athletes | Amanda Robert
NBC Out | Senators urge Biden administration to protect LGBTQ asylum-seekers | Jo Yurcaba
The New Republic | Behind the GOP Strategy to Outlaw Trans Youth | Melissa Gira Grant
Florida
WJXX-TV | St. Johns County School Board continuing court fight in transgender bathroom case | Mindy Wadley
New Jersey
Instinct | Conversion Therapists Lose Appeal & Must Pay $3.5M | Devin Randall
Queerty | NJ conversion therapy “experts” lose big in court to tune of $3.5 million | David Reddish
North Carolina
WFAE-FM | Charlotte City Council Approves Expanded Nondiscrimination Ordinance | Claire Donnelly
More from Charlotte Observer, Los Angeles Blade, WJZY-TV
Charlotte Magazine | ANALYSIS: HB2, Five Years Later | Greg Lacour
Texas
Dallas Morning News | Texas Senate committee advances trans sports ban and medical abortion roadblock amid COVID-19 surge | Morgan O'Hanlon
Austin American-Statesman | LGBTQ group boycotts Texas Senate hearing on bill imposing limits on transgender student-athletes | Madlin Mekelburg
Pregnancy & Parenting
Emory Report | Tackling maternal mortality | Alexis Dunn-Amore, Katiana Carey-Simms
Harvard Business Review | How AI Could Help Doctors Reduce Maternal Mortality | Cesar Padilla, Gillian Abir, Mark Zakowski, Brendan Carvalho
Vox | It’s time to accept that school won’t be normal in the fall | Anna North
Reproductive Health & Justice
The Nation | As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy | Shreya Chattopadhyay
NPR | Why Reports Of Menstrual Changes After COVID Vaccine Are Tough To Study | Geoff Brumfiel
Work & Money
Vox | Biden’s reconciliation bill would be a big fucking deal | Andrew Prokop
CNBC | Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget plan would extend major relief to families with children | Carmen Reinicke
CounterPunch | The Eviction Crisis is a Race and Gender Wage Gap Issue | Rebekah Entralgo
National Law Review | EEOC Files Amicus Brief in Support of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team | Morgan McDonald
Orlando Sentinel | Wage gap for Black women can be closed through care economy | Lois Frankel, Salandra Benton
Quartz | Corporate America’s next big social impact project: Easing the plight of working parents | April Crichlow, Rebecca Minkoff, Alison Koplar Wyatt
The Verge | Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity - and labor lawyers say it’s illegal | Zoe Schiffer
Cuomo
POLITICO | Fallout from Cuomo sexual harassment report ripples across liberal networks | Anna Gronewold
BuzzFeed News | The Chair Of Time's Up Resigned After Helping Andrew Cuomo Discredit A Sexual Harassment Victim | Amber Jamieson
Of course she did. I am flames on the side of my face angry and zero surprised. I’ve noticed over the years, you want to know what an advocacy org is doing wrong? You don’t need Glassdoor. Read its mission statement. The economic org doesn’t offer paid parental leave. The union has endless contractors. The worst, most targeted gender discrimination I ever experienced? Women’s legal org. It’s ridiculous.
More from AP, Boing Boing, New York Daily News, New York Times, WSJ
Washington Blade | HRC announces independent review of president ensnared in N.Y. AG report | Chris Johnson
More from The Advocate, Axios, LGBTQ Nation, NBC Out, The 19th, Reuters
Olympics
Glamour | Olympic Women Showed Us How It’s Done | Macaela Mackenzie
Ms. | What is the Legacy of the “Gender-Equal” Tokyo 2020 Games? | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Washington Post | The ‘woke’ Olympians did just fine this year | Aaron Blake