Hi Rounders-up! Your trusty editor Pearl here, bringing you a fun-size news rodeo. We’re a bit short-staffed this week as our powerhouse Mallory is on a well-deserved trip to Europe after receiving her jurisdoctorate from OU Law School! CON~GRAD~S MALLORY!!
It is truly amazing what you can miss when you’re 9 hours away from your computer: some of your Facebook friends get engaged, brilliant souls like Lauryn Hill get three months of prison for tax evasion… and Disney just all of the sudden decides to trademark something sacred like
Mother’s Day was on Sunday. Celebrations stretched out over the whole weekend, encompassing everything from parades to the dude at the front desk throwing an unsolicited “Happy Mother’s Day” at me and every other person he judged to be a potential mom. In dominant culture, however, the mothers who are deemed worthy of celebration are [...]
This week at OK4RJ, Jen broke down just who is going to be disproportionately affected by ID requirements for over-the-counter emergency contraception. Here’s a hint: It’s not privileged teenagers who forgot their learners’ permit at home. Mallory turned her grief at the cancellation of Bomb Girls into brilliant commentary on the experience [...]
A new study was just released about the attitudes of undocumented Latinos towards the police, and the social impacts being undocumented has on their lives. Advocates have been saying for some time that having an undocumented status makes individuals fearful of the police, less cooperative in criminal investigations, and more isolated from the [...]
Watching the now canceled Bomb Girls reminded me of watching The L Word, a show which is usually hailed as the best television has to offer in terms of queer women characters. Towards the end, The L Word writers got self-righteous about how much the show was improving the life of that mythical Midwestern girl [...]
So we’ve heard about this business with regulating Plan B (emergency contraception or EC), yes? If you haven’t, the Food and Drug Administration recently decided that EC should be available to people ages 15 and older (it used to be 17) without a prescription from a doctor. US District Judge Edward [...]
Jen here and I hope you are Round Up Ready (bad Monsanto joke I’M SORRY)
This week at OK4RJ, Sandra wrote a piece about something I literally think about every day and that is dispelling the hideous myth that incremental change and moderate solutions are “what’s best for red states”. Thanks but no [...]
So, I was originally going to write a feelings filled blog that was uncharacteristically lovey dovey, seeing as how I’m still coasting off of the hearts and sparkles (and bourbon) I drank in during the Hostile Flyover Crew’s time at CLPP a couple of weeks ago. I attended [...]
Tomorrow and Friday, the overpowered copy-machine known as ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) will hold their large annual task force meeting in Oklahoma City. Really more of a double-duty printer/copier, ALEC takes large sums of money from even larger corporations to write legislation that benefits those corporations. This legislation [...]
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