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January 2008

Roe at 35: An opportunity for movement-building

Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the law the secures a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. I am prochoice, and support any woman's access to a safe abortion. It is not genocide, it is not murder, it is not irresponsible.More broadly, I support the conditions of reproductive justice, of which the right to abortion is a part, but not the sum total. Reproductive justice recognizes:

Me, the Pond, and MLK Day

Today is the MLK holiday. I feel like I should be doing something especially honorable; instead, I am sitting at home, nursing a good cup of coffee in my pajamas at noon. It is bright, sunny, and cold outside: perfect conditions for a solitary and contemplative walk around a pond or a beautiful body of water. Reflection and reflexive, that's what we need. Yesterday, I watched as the water

Meet the ‘non-existent’ homeless vets Bill O’Reilly attacked

FoxAtttacks.com

Bill O'Reilly, in his infinite stupidity, insulted the 200,000 homeless veterans living on America's streets. Got to that link and tell that tool he owes these men and women an apology.

support the film–buy a t-shirt

my recent film, “still black: a portrait of black transmen” is STILL in the fundraising process. as such, we have started a campaign to sell t-shirts. check out one of our shirts below and visit our cafepress store by clicking here to contribute to this groundbreaking and VERY important film. if you purchase a [...]

Two of the Faces of HIV

34 million living victims and going strong. Year after year for twenty years now, we've heard mind blowing statistics every 1st of December, numbers that once scared us, later became just too imposing to be a constant warning. We need to fight that apathy; anyone who has sex or knows people who have sex – that's pretty much everyone! - has a stake in the war against HIV/AIDS. 

   World AIDS Day 2008

Today is World AIDS day. I prefer to speak less about the millions and more about the individuals behind those numbers. For example, take Gina and Chelsea. Here are two women who have done little more than most people in the way of risk, in fact, they could hardly be expected to behave differently with the education that they received. But they now live with HIV.

Both women have chosen to be pro-active and make something of their situations. Watch them tell their stories here in the hope that they can save others and inform about the vital place of sex education to bring the HIV/AIDS epidemic under control.

Thanks to RHRealitycheck for producing this.

a dubious distinction

I'm up a little late, watching a Nightline segment on violence in urban areas, how it's worse than it's been in a very long time. The segment is of the ER in Philadelphia at UPenn, where there were 300 + murders in 2007 from the gun violence. The reporter is inteviewing two ER doctors, one of them talking about repeat trauma victims who end up in the ER multiple times over a stretch: the first