She's a little souvenir of a terrible year
Today…
the Senate is voting to confirm… I can’t. You know. Onto the next thing.
is Intersex Awareness Day (#IntersexAwarenessDay or #IAD2020).
is Hillary Clinton’s birthday. Her DC home isn’t too far from me, and the kids and I have walked past it more than once, as it’s very much on our path around some of the local parks. The first time I pointed it out, the 11yo got very stressed about whether we were allowed to be there. Absolutely yes, I told her, the street isn’t blocked off, and I’m certain the security stationed in those vehicles out front are more than accustomed to the sight of middle-aged white women walking past in their Keens and lefty political t-shirts, trying not to cry.
Supreme Court
New York Times | Over Democratic Fury, Republicans Push Barrett to Brink of Confirmation | Nicholas Fandos
A near party-line vote on Sunday to cut off debate over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination set up a final confirmation vote on Monday. Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the Capitol last week. Judge Barrett’s ascension would lock in a 6-to-3 conservative majority on the court.
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Slate | Murkowski Shifts Stance, Says She Will Vote to Confirm Barrett to Supreme Court | Daniel Politi
The Republican senator from Alaska who had publicly opposed confirming a new Supreme Court justice before the election, said Saturday she will be voting in favor of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
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Slate | This Is What It Feels Like to Live Under Minority Rule | Dahlia Lithwick
I am here to remind you that some of the reflexive reaction to the daily reminders of your own powerlessness—including your possible hopelessness, blame-shifting, and the ritual saying of “who cares”—really is the reaction they are trying to elicit.
CNN | Barrett will complicate John Roberts' goal of keeping the Supreme Court out of politics | Joan Biskupic
New York Times | What Does Amy Coney Barrett Mean for the Supreme Court? | Linda Greenhouse
Ms. | A ‘Woman for a Woman’s Sake’ Doesn’t Sit With Us | Erin Vilardi, Pakou Hang
Trump and the far-right are selling this notion of Barrett as a “conservative feminist”—but we’re not buying it and neither should you.
CNN | Republicans' claims about Amy Coney Barrett insult our intelligence | Jill Filipovic
NC Policy Watch | Stereotypes, elitism at work in conservative praise for "working mom" Barrett | Charnessa Ridley
The Intercept | The Dark Money-Funded Women’s Group Rallying Behind Amy Coney Barrett | Greta Moran
Mississippi Free Press | Evangelical Leaders, Sen. Hyde-Smith: Barrett Nomination Offers Chance to ‘End Abortion’ | Ashton Pittman
NBC | Amy Coney Barrett claims birth control is safe. Don't take her word for it. | Rachel Rebouché
Orlando Sentinel | New Supreme Court puts birth-control access in danger | Commentary | Rodni Cruz
Reuters | Analysis: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett often rules for police in excessive force cases | Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley
Washington Post | Amy Coney Barrett confirmation: LGBTQ advocates fearful Supreme Court may roll back protections | Robert Barnes
Abortion
HuffPost | Inside The Fight For Abortion Rights On A Catholic Campus | Melissa Jeltsen
USA Today | Roe v. Wade ruling matters, but mostly as a symbol. It has not protected abortion rights. | Ziad Munson
On The Ballot
ELLE | Your Reproductive Rights Could Depend on Your Down-Ballot Votes This Election | Hilary Weaver
CNN | Abortion on the ballot: Voters in Colorado and Louisiana considering restrictions on abortion | Caroline Kelly
Washington Post | What ballot initiatives will matter | David Weigel
Colorado
Kaiser Health News | Colorado Initiative Would Further Limit Access in Middle America’s ‘Abortion Desert’ | Priscilla Blossom
ABC | Coloradans are voting on an abortion ban: What to know about Proposition 115 | Alexandra Svokos
Florida
Fort Myers News-Press | 'We come here as friends,' pro-life supporters saddened by attempted arson to Planned Parenthood | Kaitlin Greenockle
LGBTQ
The Advocate | Report: VA Failing Service Members by Not Collecting LGBTQ+ Data | Neal Broverman
The Advocate | Study: Trump's State Department Ignores Anti-LGBTQ+ Abuses Abroad | Trudy Ring
AP | For transgender activists, election stokes hopes and fears | David Crary
FAB Magazine | We need a queer and trans revolution in care for older adults | Zena Sharman
LGBTQ Nation | A majority of Americans support marriage equality & LGBTQ protections. All except one group. | Juwan Holmes
LGBTQ Nation | Log Cabin Republicans endorsed some of the most anti-LGBTQ politicians running for office | Juwan Holmes
The Nation | Betsy DeVos Attacks Trans Athletes Again | Dave Zirin
Ohio
Metro Weekly | Lesbian running for sheriff in Ohio touts sexual orientation in ad to show she's a fighter | John Riley
Texas
PBS NewsHour | A Texas regulatory board removed discrimination protections. Critics are fighting back | Ivette Feliciano
Vermont
LGBTQ Nation | Taylor Small is a fusion candidate who could make history as a trans legislator in Vermont | Molly Sprayregen
Pregnancy & Parenting
The Frontier | Oklahoma completes first-ever report on maternal deaths | Kassie McClung
Oklahoma is the 4th worst state in the U.S. for maternal mortality. For the past 18 years, 11 women on average die per year.
Psychology Today | The Third Shift | Carol Landau Ph.D
The third shift is a term for employed American mothers’ lives during the pandemic. Work at a paid job, work at home on childcare and housekeeping, and now, supervising remote education, constantly adjusting a confusing and uncertain schedule and attending to the emotional needs of children under stress.
Reproductive Health & Justice
The Hill | Progressive lawmakers call for United Nations probe into DHS 'human rights abuses' | Cristina Marcos
The four progressive congresswomen known as the "Squad" on Friday urged the United Nations to investigate whether alleged forced medical procedures on migrant women amounted to human rights abuses committed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
VICE | ‘A Disturbing Pattern’: ICE Detainees Were Pressured to Have Gynecological Surgery, Doctors Say | Greg Walters
Texas
KCBD-TV | Planned Parenthood closes health gap for uninsured women in Lubbock | Camelia Juarez
KTTZ-TV | Planned Parenthood opens its doors in Lubbock | Kaysie Ellingson
Work & Money
Agenda (World Economic Forum) | COVID isn't gender neutral- it hit women hardest. How to reset the world of work, by the head of UN Women | Joe Myers
Boing Boing | Disney fires man for taking paternity leave; judge rules it's not discrimination because he didn't give birth | Thom Dunn
Chicago Tribune | Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s role in getting women fair access to mortgage loans paved the way for female homeownership to rise | Hannah Herrera Greenspan
Forbes | Women And Work: How To Get Creative In A Time Of Crisis | Dede Henley
NBC | Americans fear rising cost of working from home as pandemic continues | Suzanne Ciechalski, Allison Park
New York Times | Wealthy Millennial Women Tend to Defer to Husbands on Investing | Jenny Gross
The Observer | Professors work through ever-changing school year as parents and educators | Isabella Volmert
The child care crisis
Axios | Child care crisis is denting the labor market | Erica Pandey
New data from Pew shows that parents are being hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic, and as far as job losses go, mothers and fathers are faring equally poorly.
Motherly | President Trump: How His Policies May Impact Parents | Heather Marcoux
Richmond Times-Dispatch | The first female recession: Women in Richmond and beyond are leaving the workforce in record numbers during COVID | Colleen Curran
Wall Street Journal | Covid Pushed These Dads to Pause Their Careers for Full-Time Parenting | Rachel Feintzeig
Working Mother | Working Moms Are Drowning, But You Wouldn't Know It Based on the Presidential Debates | Audrey Goodson Kingo
The Nation | Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey | Bryce Covert
The economist predicted that America would be hit harder than our peers by the Covid pandemic because we don’t have national paid leave.
Illinois News Connection | Report Reinforces Calls for National Paid Sick-Leave Policy | Mary Schuermann Kuhlman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | A bid for healthier families | Editorial
Washington Post | The coronavirus is shaping the conversation about the need for paid family leave | Rebecca Gale
Wyoming
Casper Star-Tribune | Low wages continue to cause problems for Wyoming families | Kathryn Palmer
More, More, More
Business Insider | Yes, women's equality will come at the expense of some men | Ashley Jordan
A new report by Pew shows 25% of men believe increased equality for women will come at their expense. They're exactly right, and that's the point. In order to equalize centuries of oppression of women, men will have to stop benefiting in life just for being men.
CNN | What the 2020 gender gap is really all about | Jill Filipovic
The divide between female and male voting patterns isn't just about sex; it's about sexism. One party has become the home of aggrieved men, running and electing an overwhelmingly male slate of candidates while accepting virulent misogynists and even putting one in the White House.
Time | Women Tend to Vote for Democratic Presidential Candidates More Than Men Do. Here’s How That Gender Gap First Came to Be | Suzanne Kahn
Daily Free Press | Dear Men: “Men are trash” is a phrase that belongs to all of us, not just women | Yvonne Tang
This doesn’t have to mean that you, as a man, are trash. But it does mean that we can collectively agree that toxic patriarchal traits, which often manifest themselves in men, are hardly tolerable.
Mother Jones | A Radical New Plan for MeToo Turns Away From “Law and Order” Feminism | Madison Pauly
In a break with decades of efforts to expand the policing and prosecution of sex crimes, the agenda calls for limits on the power and reach of cops and courts.
NBC | Trump's '60 Minutes' interview highlights America's manterrupter problem | Lynn Parramore
Lesley Stahl, like women everywhere, knows that gaining a seat at the table doesn't mean much if you can't be heard over the din.