What are you gonna do
Between getting the 11yo out for first day of summer school for the 11yo, getting the 13yo back into the swing of OutSchool classes, and the usual Monday demands of my paying work… the next thing I knew it was noon. I’m happy enough to say hi, touch base, let you know I’m back.
Feeling a real connection to the scrapyard at the Fiestaware factory I visited last week – cracked in many places but still shiny, still useful.
Abortion
New York Times | Banning Abortion Doesn’t Protect Women’s Health | Michele Goodwin
NPR | In A New Record, States Have Enacted 90 Abortion Restrictions So Far This Year | Emma Bowman
NPR | Biden's Abortion Actions Are Both Too Little Or Too Much, Depending Who You Ask | Julie Rovner
Arkansas
Arkansas Democrat Gazette | "God Bless Abortions" banner hung overnight on Christ of the Ozarks statue | Garrett Moore
More from Arkansas Times, Kansas City Star, KLRT-TV
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Union Leader | Sununu says 'blow up' Sununu center, open to doing away with ultrasound mandate | Kevin Landrigan
Texas
New York Times | Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas | Sabrina Tavernise
Fortune | New Texas law opens up abortion bounty hunting | Nicole Goodkind
The Texan | Centerville Becomes 30th 'Sanctuary City for the Unborn' in Texas | Isaiah Mitchell
LGBTQ
Blue Ridge Public Radio | Tribal Council Refuses To Hear Same-Sex Marriage Resolution Again | Lilly Knoepp
DiversityInc | Nearly 70% of LGBTQ Women Running for Office in Last 4 Years Won Their Elections | Brian Good
Michigan
AP | Michigan bureau: LGBTQ rights ballot drive short signatures | David Eggert
Michigan Advance| LGBTQ rights group ready to file suit after state rejects petition signatures | Allison Donahue
North Carolina
The Herald-Sun | Young and LGBTQ in rural NC: Isolated, tough, but changing | Tammy Grubb
Tennessee
NBC Out | Judge blocks Tennessee's transgender bathroom sign law | Jo Yurcaba
More from The Advocate, AP, Bloomberg, Commercial Appeal, Forbes, The Hill, HuffPost, LGBTQ Nation, The Tennessean
Texas
Metro Weekly | Texas governor wants to ban transgender athletes from sports during special legislative session | John Riley
KXAN-TV | Texas LGBTQ activists to fight revived bills to ban transgender students from sports matching their gender identity | Will Dupree
Houston Chronicle | There is no good reason to target transgender children in this summer's special session of the Texas Legislature | Erica Grieder
Pregnancy & Parenting
New York Times | For Freelancers, Taking Time Off for a Baby Is Risky | Charlotte Cowles
USA Today | Biden administration directs ICE to avoid detention of pregnant and nursing immigrants | Courtney Subramanian
More from Axios, Forbes, Motherly, New York Times
Vox | Why American parents are obsessed with finding out the sex of their fetus | Amanda Montei
Reproductive Health & Justice
Bitch | The Eugenics Movement Paved the Way for Britney Spears’s Forced IUD | Samantha Chavarria
Esquire | Even With Everything Else, Don't Lose Sight of the Religious Right's War on Women's Right to Privacy | Charles P. Pierce
Science Magazine | Sex and gender missing in COVID-19 data | Cathleen O'Grady
California
Washington Post | California once forcibly sterilized people by the thousands. Now the victims may get reparations. | Derek Hawkins
Colorado
Fatherly | Study of Teen Birth Control Access in Colorado Shows Program a Success | Lizzy Francis
Rewire News Group | Colorado Makes Abortion and Birth Control More Accessible
Massachusetts
MassLive | Under Mass. law, 1.2 million women qualified for free birth control; So, why did only about 300 take advantage of it? | Sarah Betancourt
Work & Money
AP | For top #MeToo legal duo, a pandemic year brings no pause | Jocelyn Noveck
BuzzFeed | Experts Say COVID Started A "Shecession". These 4 Things Could Help Women Recover | Lara McCaffrey
The Daily Beast | How ‘Toxic’ and ‘Abusive’ Is L’Oréal as an Employer? | Alaina Demopoulos
Kansas
Topeka Capital-Journal | As state of Kansas expands paid family leave for its employees, some want the private sector to follow suit | Andrew Bahl