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Stassa Edwards
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Features editor. Writing at the intersection of women's health, politics, and history. Work at Lapham's Quarterly, Aeon, The Awl, Self, and Cabinet. Writing a book about hysteria.

It should also be noted that merely being gay is a violation of BYU’s honor code. Read more

#37 is the dudes who like to take their time to explain in the comments how they, men, would approach a situation if they were women. They deserve praise for edumacating women to what the right decision is to do. Read more

I’m surprised because, for one shining moment, he didn’t have the smallest hands in the room. Read more

Michelle Obama’s speech emphasized this too, the way in which she talked about raising her girls and the importance of having someone they can look up to in the White House. What impressed me about Bill’s speech was that he reminded people that even before she was 30, Hillary was getting shit done. Michelle Obama did Read more

I’m 66 years old. I became a feminist when I was 5, and my older sister was told she could “join” a model airplane club my father belonged to. She could pay dues, but not attend meetings or meet because she was a girl.(My father promptly “unjoined” that club!) I’ve been waiting 61 years for today.
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Not to keep posting on here, but one of the worst things he did was contribute to a MASSIVE HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana. It’s one of his scandals that people seem to forget but it’s horrifying. HORRIFYING. In 2013 the only Planned Parenthood there closed due to lack of funding, which left the county without Read more

Also, in 2000 (nearly a half a century after a landmark study established the link between cigarettes and lung cancer), he wrote: “Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.” He has repeatedly slashed smoking cessation programs and takes money Read more

That's a sick burn from Cecile Richards. Fuck this dude. Seriously.
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Hillary Clinton making mom jokes is great. She should make more of them. Reminding Americans that she is a mom who does things like tell mom jokes might help some of the fence sitters (true conservatives are lost causes on the Clinton front) remember that she’s not a WeinerCrusher PoliticoFemBot MK VIII. Read more

I do dig that she wasn’t apologizing for what she said, merely that she said it publicly. That’s a pretty important distinction. Read more

that part (Two Americas) of the Saunders piece really struck me as...rushed? Undercooked? He’s better than that. Also that part where he grabs a black woman’s arm and explains her own values to her....a little cringe. Read more

If anyone wants to make a donation to support independent abortion clinics (like Whole Women’s Health, and the indies I worked at and research with), every dollar counts! Make a donation to celebrate today’s decision and to help clinics that had to close re-open their doors! https://www.abortioncarenetwork.org/donation Read more

Most of it centers around Geographic Information Systems (GIS), but really the general principles apply to any technology. Probably the seminal work would be the book “Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems” by John Pickles. There’s a whole bunch of interesting things in a book edited Read more