Miss American Dream
Today…
is Sonia Sotomayor’s birthday.
in 2013, Texas State Rep. Wendy Davis rose to address the House chamber against an anti-abortion bill, and didn’t sit down again for 11 hours. I bought those pink tennies, too, and I loved them.
is Color TV Day are you kidding me with this.
On this day in 1951, CBS aired what’s considered the first color broadcast. On this day in 2021, I’m trying to track down the color TV FedEx says was delivered yesterday, Amazon thinks may have been delivered this morning, and BestBuy kissed goodbye two days ago.
You say I’m crazy? I got yer crazy.
Abortion
The Independent | Two different Americas: How the anti-abortion movement stripped millions of their rights | Danielle Zoellner
Reuters | A plurality of Americans would strike down Mississippi abortion ban | Chris Kahn
Time | Why Must Women Wait Hear What We Can Do With Our Bodies? | Lyz Lenz
Washington Post | Pay raise and abortion insurance coverage included in budget measure approved by House subcommittee | Eric Yoder
Michigan
Michigan Advance | House panel mulls bill requiring medical providers to give anti-abortion information | Allison Donahue
New Hampshire
AP | NH lawmakers approve $13.5 billion budget package | Holly Ramer
South Carolina
AP | Discord over whether to halt South Carolina abortion case | Meg Kinnard
LGBTQ
CNN | President Joe Biden to name Jessica Stern special envoy for LGBTQ rights | Donald Judd
CNN | Census pushes to get LGBTQ+ Americans counted in key pandemic survey | Anneken Tappe
DAME | The Religious Right and Anti-Trans Movements’ Unholy Alliance | Brynn Tannehill
Eater | For Transgender Uber Eats Drivers, ‘Right to Pride’ Is a Long-Overdue Change in Policy | Aliza Abarbanel
LGBTQ Nation | More than half of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. have been threatened with physical violence | Molly Sprayregen
The Hill | More than half of LGBTQ adults in America have experienced violent threats: study | Jordan Williams
San Francisco Chronicle | Supreme Court justice signals openness to allowing religious beliefs to trump LGBTQ rights in hiring | Bob Egelko
UPI | Transgender U.S. hurdling champion CeCe Telfer ruled ineligible for Olympic trials | Alex Butler
USA Today | This is America: 'If your Pride isn't intersectional, it's not Pride' | David Oliver
Washington Blade | House approves data collection measure for LGBTQ-owned businesses | Chris Johnson
Alabama
AL.com | Bill to ban transgender treatments for minors returning to Alabama Legislature | Mike Cason
Montgomery Advertiser | Montgomery to vote on expanded LGBTQ protections against housing, job discrimination | Brad Harper
California
KXJZ-FM | UC Regents Say Doctors Must Be Able To Provide Gender-Affirming Care At Religiously Affiliated Partner Hospitals | Sammy Caiola
San Francisco Chronicle | Regents alter policy with religious hospitals - requires UC doctors be allowed to perform certain procedures | Bob Egelko
New York
AP | NYC Pride ban on uniformed police reflects a deeper tension | Deepti Hajela
Newsday | Cuomo signs Gender Recognition Act to aid nonbinary, transgender NYers | Michael Gormley
More from AP, Democrat and Chronicle, Los Angeles Blade, New York Daily News, PoliticsNY, UPI
Ohio
Ohio Capital Journal | Ohio House approves transgender sports ban for women's athletics | Tyler Buchanan
Texas
Texas Tribune | Texans oppose permitless carry, but support expanding Medicaid and restricting transgender student athletes, UT/TT Poll finds | James Barragan, Cassandra Pollock, Mitchell Ferman
Pregnancy & Parenting
Bloomberg | Paid Maternity Leave Would Help Relieve America’s Maternal Mortality Crisis | Joia Crear-Perry
The Nation | We Owe It to the World's Children to Slow Population Growth | Katha Pollitt
Virginia
Virginia Mercury | Black mothers in Virginia have worse health outcomes. Advocates want bias training for doctors, but can it narrow the gap? | Kate Masters
Reproductive Health & Justice
Harper's Bazaar | It's Time to Talk About Periods | Jessica Matlin, Jenna Rosenstein
The Hill | House passes veterans contraception, LGBTQ business bills previously blocked by GOP | Cristina Marcos
Mashable | What you should know about the ongoing hunt for male birth control | Caitlin Welsh
The 19th | What could be behind high unintended pregnancy rates? Challenges getting birth control. | Shefali Luthra
Salon | How period jokes and stories are changing the world on "the quintessential intersectional issue" | Kylie Cheung
If you seek Jamie
The Daily Beast | Britney Spears’ Forced IUD Is Common in Conservatorships | Emily Shugerman
The Lily | Why Britney Spears’s IUD experience feels so personal | Caroline Kitchener
New York Times | Is the Forced Contraception Alleged by Britney Spears Legal? | Jan Hoffman
The 19th | Britney Spears lost her reproductive freedom. Tragically, her case is not unique. | Barbara Rodriguez, Jennifer Gerson
VICE | Forcing Someone to Keep an IUD in Is A Form of Abuse | Hannah Smothers
Vogue | Britney Spears’s Forced IUD Is A Chilling Example of the Threats to Reproductive Freedom | Emma Specter
Well+Good | The Reproductive Oppression of Britney Spears | Kara Jillian Brown
More from Autostraddle, CBS, The Hill, HuffPost, Newsweek, Oxygen, Refinery29, USA Today
Missouri
Kansas City Star | ‘Do you believe in birth control at all?’ Missouri Senate moves closer to floor fight | Jonathan Shorman
The State | Planned Parenthood, Right to Life oppose Missouri tax bill | Summer Ballentine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Republicans lawmakers want your IUD, and it's creepy as hell | Aisha Sultan
More from Kansas City Star, KODE-TV, Missouri Independent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Work & Money
Bloomberg | More Women Will Run U.S. Cities Coming Out of the Pandemic | Shelly Banjo
Chronicle of Philanthropy | A Challenge to Philanthropy: Find a New Way to Talk About Care Giving | Nat Kendall-Taylor
Federal News Network | Expanding paid family leave for federal employees faces tough, heated fight | Nicole Ogrysko
Forbes | It’s Time For Your Women’s Taskforce: Getting The Women Back To Work | Marcy Klipfel
Ms. | Making Title IX’s Promise a Reality with The Gender Equity Education Act | Carrie Baker
Yahoo Sports | Olympics: Canada's Kim Gaucher asks for help acquiring exemption for breastfeeding children | Cassandra Negley
Louisiana
Louisiana Illuminator | Louisiana governor signs law to eliminate state sales tax on menstrual products, diapers | Julie O'Donoghue