love-and-organizing is a queer, bbq-loving, relocated Miami-an who can't say no to a roadtrip. She is a board member of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project, and is on their Young Women's Leadership Council. love-and-organizing has done a bit of conference coordinating with Western Massachusetts Community Coalition for Teens and for CLPP's annual "From Abortion Rights to Social Justice" conference. By day, lani works for CLPP as operations assistant, and during the other parts of the day she is a collective member of Translate Gender. Also, she loves talking and writing about reproductive justice and all the amazing folks who make it happen in their communities.
I am not a policy buff. Which is why I think I'm a good person to try to explain what happened with healthcare reform this week.
While I was visiting Washington, D.C. this weekend for the Pro-Choice Public Education Project's Young Women's Leadership Council convening and the 5th Annual National Membership Meeting of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, Congress democrats were fretting over whether or not their healthcare reform bill would pass. With a House majority, why were they so worried? They were worried that conservative democrats would not support the bill. So, at 1:30 AM, in the wee hours between Friday night and Saturday morning, the House Rules Committee announced that they would let Rep. Stupak (D-MI) introduce an amendment to the healthcare reform bill that would ban abortion coverage from federally funded or subsidized plans. If you are at all familiar with the Hyde Amendment - the Stupak amendment is Hyde's evil brother.
As Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, points out, the Stupak Amendment (1) effectively bans coverage for most abortions from all public and private health plans in the Exchange, (2) includes only extremely narrow exceptions, (3) allows for a useless abortion “rider”**, and (4) allows for discrimination against abortion providers.
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Back in September, Amplify blogger michellemysistahs reported that an FDA panel recommended the use of the HPV vaccine in boys and men. On October 16th, the FDA approved the use of the HPV vaccine in boys/men. Then, on October 21st the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the U.S. Center for Disease Control “stopped short of recommending the vaccine for boys as part of the approved childhood immunization schedule”
Questions still remain: why would boys and men want to be vaccinated from HPV? Will the HPV vaccine become accessible to men/boys? Should men/boys get the vaccine?
Why would boys and men want to get the HPV vaccine
If you ask the FDA panel that recommended the use of the HPV vaccine for use in boys and men they would tell you that it prevents genital warts. In her post HPV Vaccine for Men, Too!, michellemysistahs points out that the vaccine helps prevent certain cancers in men: those being penile, anal, and oral cancers.
If you ask the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the CDC, they echo the findings of a study lead by Jane Kim, an assistant professor of health decision science: “including boys in an HPV vaccination program generally exceeds what the U.S. typically considers good value for money”.
The big news this week is that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), whose tagline is "cutting-edge medicine and advocacy regardless of ability to pay", opened a Men's Wellness Center in North Miami! This clinic, dubbed the AHF “Magic Johnson” Healthcare Center, is located at Jackson North (for all my fellow Miami-ans) and it's a walk-in clinic that provides confidential sexual health services - including HIV and STD testing and treatment at no cost to clients. Awesome!
When I saw this healine, my interest was immediately peaked because I called Miami home for 18+ years. As I looked further, I discovered that AHF is one interesting org - that definitely does some creative outreach.
AHF has a number of consignment shops across California - and with a few locations in Florida - called Out of the Closet Thirft Stores. The name alone is enough to make my heart do a little happy dance, but there's more. "Ninety-six cents of every dollar raised goes directly to care and services provided to HIV/AIDS patients and clients at AHF facilities in the US and around the world," says AHF president Michael Weinstein. And! several AHF ‘Out of the Closet’ sites also serve as free HIV and STD testing centers (including the Miami location). Awesome!
But that's not all.
Towson University's newspaper editor resigned this week because some folks are afraid of The "M" Word.
Here are the facts:
- Towson University, in Towson, Maryland, has a student run newspaper called The Towerlight.
- A weekly column, entitled "The Bed Post", ran an article in late September about mutual masturbation.
- Some panties got bunched up.
- The editor-in-cheif of The Towerlight put out a statement of resignation in which she relates receiving an email from the university president that was written in an "intimidating, patronizing and bullying tone".
- In the post Editor Resigns over Masturbation Column, abc2 author writes: "The column spared no detail; and while many excerpts are too graphic for this story one sentence give you an idea: 'Regardless of how you do it, you should be aroused, pleased and totally safe.'"
- Why are we so afraid of masturbation!?
- Why are we so afraid of safer sex!?
- What's wrong with peer education!?
- Why are we so afraid of sex!?
What do you think?
I will be the first to admit it: I do not know enough about the global fight against HIV/AIDS epidemic. So when fellow blogger, AFY_EmilyB, alterted me to an article about PrEP, I knew I had to take the oppurtunity to educate myself. Needless to say, what follows is no where near an expert's account - and I will never pretend to be a scientist. To be honest, what I think is particularly interesting about this aspect of HIV/AIDS research is about society and our own personal values.
Two days ago, I had no idea what PrEP was. If you're in the same boat, here's a quick intro courtesy of PrEPwatch.org :
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) refers to an experimental HIV-prevention strategy that would use anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to protect HIV-negative people from HIV infection. In this strategy, people would take the medications before they were exposed to HIV, in hopes that it would lower the risk of infection. PrEP is different from post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), in which people who have been exposed through a needle, rape, etc., immediately begin taking ARVs in hopes of preventing infection.While contraceptive developments gave us birth control THEN the morning after pill, it seems like HIV/AIDS research is working in a different direction. There are anti-retroviral cocktails currently used by people who have been exposed to HIV that prevent infection (you can liken this to the morning after pill in the above proposed metaphor) and now some researchers are developing something that could be used before exposure (the birth control of HIV/AIDS infection). This is not to say that HIV infection is comparable to pregnancy. This is a way I was able to make sense of the science.
The are a sad few years in my past where I only went to movies a few times for only those huge movie events that absolutely could not be missed, i.e. Harry Potter. But I'm not writing this in search of your pity. Rather, I'm celebrating because the draught is over!
I have a really fabulous crew of folks that I've been going to the movies with regularly over the last couple of months. The group of people is always a little different, but the scenario is pretty much the same: we (1) pick a movie to go to, (2) watch it in theaters, and (3) talk about it until every angle has been excellently analyzed (or until the next screening starts and we decide we should leave the theater).
This is all to say that my love for and commitment to going to the movies has been renewed. And that the same old tired scenarios of stereotypical gender roles still goes unchallenged on the big screen. The following two examples come from my last two Friday night adventures (**spoiler warning**).
Tonight marks the one week anniversary of my latest obsession: The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The VMAs have really brought up a lot for me from thoughts about how technology has changed the way that we experience media to celebration and love for some of the most amazing pop performers to sadness and distrust in the racism that saturates our alleged post-racial society. What follows are some disclaimers about my personal opinions and biases, some descriptions of how the VMAs have shaped my life in the last week, and a little analysis.
Have you ever read News of the Wierd? Well you should, because recently, they printed an article that I really wanted to share with you all about sex education pamphlets produced by Britain's National Health Service of Sheffield. Now, I bet you're interested. Well, News of the Wierd is a syndicated column that is printed in my local community newspaper, The Valley Advocate (and probably in your local free paper too).
Here's the story:
This story was published under the heading "Questionable Judgment?". I say no! I think the U.S. can learn a lot from Britain about sex-positivity and healthy living. And I'm going to tell everyone I know about the preventative health benefits of orgasms. How about you?Britain's National Health Service of Sheffield issued a "guidance" to schools this summer to encourage teaching students alternatives to premarital sex, including masterbation. According to the Daily Telegraph, the leaflet (title "Pleasure") contains the slogan "(A)n orgasm a day keeps the doctor away" and likens the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables, and excercising, to the benefits of masturbating twice a week. [Daily Telegraph, 7-12-09]
So, I may have just fallen in love with a blog. (Please keep this between you and me - I usually don't even let on that I know what 'blog' means...)
Check it: Pinko Magazine brings us: Five Things You Can Do About Healthcare, In Ascending Order of Difficulty and Commitment. With Q & A!
Now, I have to tell you - I'm a total cynic when it comes to political processes. I avoid DC at all possible costs, I constantly question if any of my representatives will ever truly represent me, and I mostly believe that petitions end up in the mystery world of single socks that never come out of the dryer.
That being said, Ben from Pinko Mag totally makes me want to:
1. Sign a Petition
2. Send an email
3. Call someone
4. Give someone some money
5. Get involved with events in my community
(and #6 that made it into the comments section:) Write a letter to the editor.
Now I know you may be thinking, these sorts of actions are so my grandma's generation of old bitties who sit at home and think they're changing the world - is this really going to make any difference. Well, actually I agree with you. These actions seem to me to be really passive and contigent on different levels of privilege (aka access to money, a weekly work/school schedule that allows you to sit on the phone with your congresspeople, etc.). And I have no idea how much of a difference that they make. But I do know, we can't sit around and wait for health care to show up on our door steps. Have you ever been uninsured? I have. And it's no fun getting sprained ankles, strep throat, pap smears, etc. when you may or may not be able to find a clinic that won't break your bank.
But! the actor, Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) has just made a "major donation" to The Trevor Project, which is a US-based national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. What Daniel has to say for himself is:
I am very pleased to begin my support of The Trevor Project, which saves lives every day through its critical work. It's extremely distressing to consider that in 2009 suicide is a top three killer of young people, and it's truly devastating to learn that LGBTQ youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. I deeply hope my support can raise the organization's visibility so even more despondent youth become aware of The Trevor Helpline's highly trained counselors and Trevor's many other resources. It's vitally important that young people understand they are not alone and, perhaps even more important, that their young lives have real value.Suicide is an issue that has the potential to (or already does) touch all of our lives. Whether we're queer, young, straight, middle-aged, poor, white, owning class, a person of color.
Additionally, it's so important that projects like The Trevor Project exist to address the specific concerns and issues that touch the lives of queer youth who, as Daniel points are, are four times as likely to attempt suicide.
The Trevor Project was founded in 1998 by three filmmakers whose film, "Trevor," a comedy/drama about a gay teenager who attempts suicide, received the 1994 Academy Award(R) for Best Short Film (Live Action). Since its founding, The Trevor Helpline has received hundreds of thousands of calls from LGBTQ youth across the country. In the past year alone, call volume to The Trevor Helpline has increased more than 300 percent.
This comic is for both gender justice veterans and folks finding themselves in the beginning of trans-allyship - which is why I love, love, love the work of mixedqueer. KFLG comfy undies is one comic in a series that makes my heart smile for its amazing way to synthesize the complexities of gender in an accessible and artful way.
Today, Senator Al Franken from Minnesota announced, "On this vote, the yays are 68 and the nays are 31". On what vote, you may ask? On the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor as the next supreme court justice.
Judge Sotomayor will be sworn in on Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts. She will replace Justice Souter - both of whom are known by conservatives across the country as "liberal". Pundits say she is not expected to alter the ideological split (or direction?) of the Supreme Court.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor will become the third woman and the first latino on the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor is a Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx, and on this point, the New York Times says: For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor's Success Stirs Pride.
Are you a gender-conforming person who wants to learn how to be a better ally to trans folks? Do you like wit, humor, and snark?
Are you a trans person who is tired, tired, sickened, and tired of people asking invasive, horrifying, and stupid questions?
Well, Life Coach Charles and Life Coach Red have made a video just for you: "Transsexual Meditations: Intimate Questions? The Answers".
Back in May, Mo-Nique performed in (as some commentators have called it) "one of the most unlikeliest of places", the Ohio Reformatory for Women, a multi-security, state facility. Why? Because (paraphrased from the movie): she doesn't care what you did yesterday, we all deserve some laughter.
I really appreciate this video for providing some context about the women who are incarcerated at the Ohio Reformatory. For instance: the majority are survivors of physical, psychological, or sexual violence. Mo'Nique goes into the prison and positions herself as another person - not a better woman than any one person in the audience.
Back in my wee early days as a blogger, I wrote some thoughts on billboards and sex. Consider this, some more thoughts on billboards and sex:
For those of us who do not live in New York City (or maybe even dread Times Square more than abstinence-only sex education...), we luckily have the Huffington Post keeping us up on all the latest billboards. So we don't have to go another day without a little Sex In The Sky: Most Scandalous Billboards in NY.
Here's the thing. I don't really know what to make of all of this. But I guess I'll give it a shot.
I must say, when I look back on it, I enjoyed some pretty charmed teenage years. Having three years between me and those days, I can look back on them with the wisdom that can only come with age (sarcasm). But seriously, I did well in school, I had plenty of friends (and plenty of the drama that comes with friends), I got in trouble, experimented with things (like boys and girls and sneaking out and...), was responsible, wasn't responsible sometimes - you get the idea. This isn't to say that I was super-privileged, but I did well with that I had, fought with my parents, had friends (and family) who supported me, and was able to muddle through some of the intense insecurities that followed me through my teen years.
When I was in 10th grade, I was hanging out with a friend of mine who was one of those cool older guys who had already gone to college and dropped out. He told me I was just like Hermione, which I was totally thrilled about! In my mind, Hermione was a geek (like me who loved to read, did really good in school), who had really great friends, a sense of justice (speaking out for house-elves, standing up for those who are bullied), and was cute. While my fellow blogger, Jill, strongly identified with the bushy-haired Hermione (as she lays out artfully in her post The Hermione in my Head), I didn't miss those small descriptions that illustrated Hermione's transformation from big kid to sexual-being, i.e. sexy teenager. Like how she starts to always tame her hair after the triwizard tournament ball, or how she gets Madam Pomfrey (the school nurse) to shrink her teeth to smaller than their original size after a curse by Draco that makes her two front teeth grow uncontrollably. This is all to say that I saw myself. I saw my transformation from slightly-awkward-book-worm-but-friendly-child to kind-of-sexy-borderline-popular-still-kind-of-geeky-teenager in Hermione.
Tuesday, July 21st, the Senate Judiciary Committe will vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sotomayor - who, if appointed, will become the first Latina on the SC. While I'm no political pundit and I can't tell you whether her nomination will go through tomorrow, I can say that last week's Judiciary Committee hearings were laden with racist comments aimed at Judge Sotomayor.
I still can't get a handle on how these old, white senators can possible get away with accusing Judge Sotomayor of being racist (largely, because she acknowledges that life experiences play a roll in decision-making). At Feministing.com, my old friend Jos does a lovely job of explaining just how ludicrous (and scary) these 'defitions of racism' are.
And if you're looking for some real information on Judge Sotomayor's judicial history, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health has this handy resource.
I think the best summary of last week's hearings were recorded, however, by Stephen Colbert. The word of the day: neutral man's burden. The lesson learned: white men are the only capable of 'neutrality'.
We can all only hope that our judiciary committee does NOT vote against Judge Sotomayor solely because she is a Puerto Rican woman.
As many of us have celebrated and memorialized the fortieth anniversary of Stonewall, I think that it's appropriate to know what this event means for us, for our friends, our allies, and our communitites. Here is an exploration of the memory (excerpted from my thesis):
When I examined Translate Gender’s community of memory, the historical event that was most often mentioned in interviews with members of Translate was the Stonewall Rebellion. This foundational moment for both the gay and lesbian movement and the emerging gender movement is not just a moment of resistance that was co-opted by one group of oppressed people. The participants in the Stonewall Rebellion were both gender non-conforming and queer people. The momentum led to a gay and lesbian movement that was made up of queer and trans people. The movement, however, came to focus on sexual oppression and marginalized gender oppression. Today, the Stonewall Rebellion is not only a moment of resistance celebrated by the LGB(T) movement. The gender movement also celebrates this moment of emergence and recognizes it as a historical memory of marginalization within the LGBT community. The memory inhabits all of these different meanings simultaneously.
What happened at Stonewall?
In the early hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Manhattan. The patrons resisted the impending police harassment and assault – harassment and assault that many of the patrons had survived before. London passionately recalls:
While the gay and lesbian movement views this event as the birth of public organizing, for many trans and gender non-conforming people, Stonewall was not fought by gay and lesbian gender-conforming people; it was spontaneous resistance by patrons at the bar, “particularly the African-American and Latina drag queens, kings, and transsexuals” (Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors). Bartholomew describes Stonewall as “trans people saying, ‘We’re not going to take it anymore!’”.It was trans people of color f#*%ing revolting and that’s not really talked about even now. It’s not talked about, who f*#$ing started the Stonewall Rebellion [when] looking at that piece of history.
A fabulous friend and colleague working in her home region of Central/Eastern Europe sent me this video - so I thought I'd pass it along. She is a volunteer sex educator with PONTON in Poland.
If you enjoy the castration/STI treatment as much as I do, maybe you'd like to join me in signing 15andCounting, a petition that will be presented to the UN to demand that governments act now to fulfill their promises on access to sexual and reproductive health services, education and information for all young people.
Thank you, Lilly Allen.
For saying everything
that I've always wanted to say
in such a concise way
that it makes me feel ok
to be happy AND gay.
Here are the lyrics, so that you can go here and sing along too:
I couldn't dream up this story if I tried: racism, paternalism, xenophobia. You name it. It's all here.
Quinta Layin Tuleh, from Cameroon, was officially sentenced to 238 days in federal prison for having fake documents. Meanwhile, BOTH the defense attorney AND the federal prosecutor asked the U.S. District Judge John Woodcock to name a sentence of 114 days, or time served.
238 days!
Judy Harrison of the Bangor Daily News writes:
Woodcock told Tuleh at her sentencing on May 14 in U.S. District Court that he was not imposing the longer prison term to punish her further but to protect her unborn child. He said that the defendant was more likely to receive medical treatment and follow a drug regimen in federal prison than out on her own or in the custody of immigration officials. The judge also said that his decision was based entirely on her HIV status. If Tuleh were pregnant but not infected with the AIDS virus, he would have sentenced her to time served.This is a lesson to us all. If you're a person of color, an immigrant from an impoverished nation, HIV-postive, a woman, a mother, trying to support your family inspite of the government's refusal to let you do so; well, then, you have no right to parent and we need to incarcerate you. For as long as possible.
The appeal to the district court is expected to be heard in July. Tuleh's baby is expected to be born in August. She's been held in jail since January. I hope she (and all of us) will experience justice someday.
There are still two days left of the 8th Annual Philly Trans-Health Conference! On Wednesday, it kicked off with "Provider's Day", which offered workshops for all kinds of providers (therapists, spiritual leaders, health care providers, social workers, educators, etc.) who serve trans-communitities. Today and tomorrow are the "Community Days" which include keynote addresses, films, and workshops geared towards trans and gender non-conforming folks, allies, friends, parents, etc. Some sessions are educational others are caucuses. Wish you were there yet?
Yesterday, my friend and colleague, Shannon Sennott and I presented at Provider's Day representing a collective that we are apart of, Translate Gender, Inc.
First thing in the morning (and I mean 8:30am), Shannon presented on her MSW thesis, "The Double Bind Theory and Gender Non-Conforming Gender Identity Development" which sounds technical and frightening but is really a qualitative investigation of the stories and experiences of twelve gender non-conforming folks. What was her number one finding? That all of these highly successful gender non-conforming folks have a way of articulating how we (as a society) put people in oppressive gender boxes. If you ask twelve gender conforming people, I bet that won't be as clearly articulate. If you're an MSW or MSW-to-be or just interested, you can find Shannon's contact info on the Translate website and request a copy of her thesis.
The Doula Project (formerly the Abortion Doula Project) is seeking smart, awesome, caring people to join our organization in
What is a Doula?
The word doula is an ancient Greek term that translates to “caregiver.” A doula provides emotional support, pain management and relaxation techniques, and information to her clients as needed.
Birth - A Birth Doula will provide all of the above throughout a client's labor and delivery, as well as the immediate post-partum period (about two hours after the baby has been born). Additionally, a birth doula will provide guidance in the creation of a birth plan with her client, and prenatal and post-partum visits. This requires an on-call period for your client of about three weeks.
Abortion- An Abortion Doula will provide all of the above to clients who are choosing to terminate the pregnancy. The doula will stay with the client throughout her procedure, as well as part of the recovery period, and will remain in touch with the client as she desires thereafter.
From the staff (including me) of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program and the Population and Development Program:
Authors' note: Hearing the news of George Tiller’s murder brought all of us here at CLPP and our sister program, Pop.Dev, to work this week with immense sadness and fear. We had many questions about the place of abortion in our communities and movements and a drive to step outside the current debate and engage in a new dialogue free from violence and rooted in justice. Over the past two days, we discussed together our own reactions and our responsibilities as members of our local community. Here is our response, originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette (June 3, 2009). We have felt a deep and very welcome connection to those who have shared their reactions and responses to Dr. Tiller’s death with us through our own and other activist networks. We hope others join this conversation.
The murder of Dr. George Tiller instills an incredible sadness and fear. We mourn the loss of our colleague; the loss of a brave doctor who refused to validate those who opposed his sense of justice; the loss of a father, a grandfather, a husband and a friend. We are profoundly saddened that we live in a society where violence is a daily lived experience, where our family, friends and allies are afraid, where medical decisions between our health care providers and ourselves are subjected to public violence.
Fear is paralyzing and isolating during a time when we need action and each other. Now is the time to continue forward with a sense of justice, accountability, and support.
The anti-abortion movement bolsters violent language and violent organizing tactics. While this movement did not pull the trigger that murdered Dr. Tiller, they normalized the dehumanization of abortion providers, helped along by right-wing talk show hosts like Bill O’Reilly. They fostered a violent context and are shirking responsibility for supporters who have taken their call to arms literally.
I type and I delete and I type and I delete and there just don’t seem words enough to begin to say all that is going through my head.
I am so saddened and scared that I can’t help but wonder, what year is this? Does Dr. Tiller’s death represent the end of access to late-term abortions? The endless violence that he, his family, his practice, his patients, and his community have been subjected to over his career and his commitment to insuring medically safe abortion care is more than I can even begin to comprehend.
It’s no secret that today, the legal right to an abortion means very little to the many people across the country who do not have access to abortion care. Dr. Tiller was one of very few providers who continued to offer late-term abortion services to those in need. Now where can we turn? Do we have to seek care outside of the country? For many, financing a trip to Wichita, Kansas may have seemed unimaginable. For many more, financing a trip outside of the U.S. to access the health care that we need is simply impossible.
Dr. Tiller’s violent murder instills terror in me. I’m terrified that abortion access may soon be a thing of the past. I’m terrified that this is just the beginning of violence against abortion providers in 21st century. Carol Joffe, quoted in the LA times, notes that “the worst period of violence against abortion providers was during President Clinton's tenure and that attacks dwindled under President George W. Bush, when the movement believed it had an ally in the White House.” What do we have to look forward to?
We know that rights aren’t enough. But will we even have laws to protect us in the near future?
I feel powerless. None of my writing or my voting or my advocating or my ideals will bring Dr. Tiller back.
It’s nights like these that I feel a desperate need to get a medical degree and begin providing abortions while simultaneous I marvel at the fact that there are any abortion providers left.
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