Trigger warning: discussion of sexual assault, law enforcement
So my neck of the woods was rocked again this week by reports of a serial rapist confessing to victimizing multiple people, many of them OU students, over a period of 15 years while he was a student and after he left the University.
Catchy title, huh? Cause, you know, it’s like we are almost living in The Handmaids Tale. I see these horrible things happening. I hear about them. I know it’s going to become reality, but it doesn’t register. Them WHAM! Now I just want to nap.
Before I fly to Ambientown, let’s digest the buffet [...]
For those of you who haven’t heard, Senate Bill 1433, otherwise known as the Personhood Act, passed the Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday, 34-8. The Personhood Act seeks to define life at conception and extend the same rights to the “unborn” child as a… born child, I guess?
Apparently the rights extended to [...]
Last week, a very famous and widely read “feminist” website (rhymes with “blehzebel”) posted a story involving sexual assault. This story centered on a video recently posted on YouTube that features a Libyan journalist being raped. The article included “helpful” stills of the victim and her assailant. Readers were understandably upset. They demanded that the site [...]
On January 20th, the Obama administration announced that soon almost all insurance plans will be required to cover contraception for women free of charge. The contraception rule was one of hundreds that the administration has generated while slowly implementing the 2010 Affordable Care Act. As unveiled on January 20th, the rule [...]
It’s been about two weeks since Komen-Gate. If you missed it, here’s a quick recap: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation (SGK) announced a plan to stop funding Planned Parenthood, realized a few days later that the online and live feminist community knows how to use the internet and make [...]
Hello lovely people! In the words of my new favorite podcast “How Was Your Week?” with Julie Klausner – how was your week? Mine? Well, busy. For being such a lazy person, I sure do a lot of stuff. I always find time to make fun of people’s terrible photos and crafts on [...]
Generations are pitted against each other from the beginning of many people’s feminist education. People are forever weighing the pros and cons of the Second Wave (what we classically think of as feminist activism: hairy-pitted Gloria Steinem burning bras in the 70’s) versus the Third Wave (the Manifesta me-me-me generation).
I personally do not identify [...]
As winter break comes to an end, so too must my stay in this self-made fantasy world of little to no responsibility (hooray college). Although I feel harshly forced back into a world of working, school, college applications, and campus and local grassroots activism, I am extraordinarily excited for Take Root: Red State [...]
When I was growing up, my dad referred to Norman as “the San Francisco of Oklahoma.” I was always so indignantly opposed to that description, insisting that if his comparison were actually true, I would have never left home. I mean, really. Groovefest is not Folsom Street Fair, and [...]
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