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Today…
in 1917, 16 women from the National Women’s Party were arrested while protesting for universal women’s suffrage in front of the White House. I’m sweating just looking at them.
is International Non-Binary People's Day. No, I haven’t alerted the 11yo yet. I’m barely caffeinated and stone sober, I’m not ready.
is National Mac n’ Cheese Day. Now this, I’m ready for.
Abortion
Democracy Now! | With Roe v. Wade in Peril, Authors Say Move Past Court to Save Reproductive Rights | Amy Goodman
New York Times | Can the U.S. Catholic Church Change Biden’s Mind on Abortion? | Jane Coaston, Ross Douthat
Salon | How the Christian right took advantage of COVID to win rampant religious exemptions | Amy Littlefield
Washington Post | Democrats are pressing forward on allowing the government to fund abortions | Paige Winfield Cunningham
Alabama
The American Independent | Appeals court ruling protects the rights of minors who need abortions in Alabama | Lisa Needham
Texas
Mic | Texas is about to enact a law that encourages people to snitch on abortion patients for cash | Vanessa Taylor
HuffPost | Lawsuit Filed To Stop Texas Law That Pays Private Citizens To Enforce Abortion Ban | Alanna Vagianos
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LGBTQ
MSNBC | Why it stings so much to see Caitlyn Jenner deadnamed | Katelyn Burns
NBC | Amazon workers petition and two quit over anti-LGBTQ book sales | April Glaser
New York Daily News | 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth in U.S. identifies as nonbinary: survey | Muri Assunção
Forbes | New Research Reveals Insights Into America’s Nonbinary Youth | Dawn Ennis
Outside | The Testosterone Debate Won’t End With Caster Semenya | Martin Fritz Huber
Time | Record Number of LGBTQ Athletes Set to Compete at the Tokyo Olympics | Amy Gunia
Indiana
The American Independent | Federal judge rules against teacher who refused to use trans students' names and pronouns | Casey Quinlan
New York Daily News | Judge rules against former Indiana teacher who said he was forced to resign for refusing to call trans students by chosen names | Muri Assunção
Kansas
KMBC-TV | Any new or remodeled KCMO city restroom must now be gender neutral | Martin Augustine
KCTV-TV | Kansas City to promote all-gender restrooms at city facilities | Chris Oberholtz
Massachusetts
NBC | Boston Pride dissolves amid diversity complaints | Dan Avery
Michigan
WUOM-FM | LGBTQ rights petition campaign given more time to show it has enough valid signatures | Rick Pluta
Missouri
KMOV-TV | 'Trans kids are normal kids' | Family heads to court after Missouri rejects son's name change | Lauren Trager
Pennsylvania
WGAL-TV | Lancaster County school district to hold meeting about transgender athlete policy | Anne Shannon
WHTM-TV | Hempfield School Board expected to discuss transgender athletes' participation in sports | Hannah Brandt
Texas
The American Independent | Texas revives bill banning trans kids from playing on the sports team of their gender | Casey Quinlan
Virginia
LGBTQ Nation | Angry parents disrupt school board meetings across Virginia to protest trans students’ rights | Alex Bollinger
Danville Register & Bee | Pittsylvania County School Board votes against state transgender policy | John R. Crane
WSET-TV | 'Perverse ideology:' Parents sound off on critical race theory, transgender school policy | Maggi Marshall
Pregnancy & Parenting
Becker's Hospital Review | University Hospitals inks partnership with pregnancy app to reduce maternal mortality | Katie Adams
Fatherly | Pregnant and No Access to Care: Taking on America’s Maternity Care Deserts | Julia Savacool
Inside Health Policy | Advocates Generally Praise CMS’ Proposed Maternal Morbidity Reporting | Dorothy Mills-Gregg
Working Mother | What Working Moms Really Need From Their Managers Post-Pandemic | Teresa Hopke
Minnesota
Public News Service | MN First State to Ban Infant Separation in Prisons | Mike Moen
Reproductive Health & Justice
Allure | How a Lack of Basic Health Care Made Self-Care a Necessity | Michelle Lee
Forbes | Love And Sex With Many: Research On The Health And Wellness Of Consensual Non-Monogamy | Rebecca Coffey
Ms. | State Legislatures Matter In the Fight for Justice-Now More Than Ever | Gaby Goldstein, Jennifer Driver
The 19th | More women are dying in jails ill-equipped to provide care | Candice Norwood
Time | Contraception Access May Not Be as Impactful for Poor Women: Study | Belinda Luscombe
The U.S. Sun | Women should always be offered pain relief when getting the coil, docs say | Vanessa Chalmers
Or as I can hear my sister, raging after her first IUD appointment, “Why women gotta be soldiers? Can a bitch get an ibuprofen?”
California
CALmatters | Latest 'menstrual equity' bill would require California's public colleges to provide period products | Emily Forschen
Work & Money
☕ HuffPost | With Abortion Rights On The Brink, NARAL Splits Over New Direction | Amanda Terkel
Inside Philanthropy | Melinda French Gates Can Transform Women’s Philanthropy. Here’s How She Might Do It. | Katherine Don
Inside Philanthropy | 3 Major Funders Take 3 Approaches to Advancing Gender Equity Post-COVID | Liz Longley
Marketplace | Why can girls’ things cost more than boys’ things? | Bridget Bodnar, Jed Kim
Ms. | The Necessity of Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees: "Paid Leave Is Not a 'Perk'" | Juliet Schulman-Hall
The 74 | In Combative Confirmation Hearing, Republicans Grill Civil Rights Nominee Lhamon on Divisive Issues from Trans Student Rights to Campus Sexual Assault | Mark Keierleber
Education Week | Senators Grill Civil Rights Nominee on Transgender Students, Sexual Assault Investigations | Evie Blad
Emmy Noms
Deadline Hollywood | Emmy Nominations Set Records For Diversity In Combined Acting & Reality Hosting Categories | Anthony D'Alessandro, Rosy Cordero
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LGBTQ Nation | Pose star Mj Rodriguez is the first trans person nominated for a lead acting Emmy | Alex Bollinger
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