It’s been such a firehose of awful since TFG’s return, I barely know where to start.
As always, this diary is a team effort. Thanks to elenacarlena, Angmar, mettle fatigue and the WOW crew for links and discussion.
Reproductive Rights:
As happens every time Republicans are in control, the “global gag rule” is back in force, denying US aid to any organization that provides or even discusses abortion.
TFG pardoned 23 criminals for crimes committed against women’s clinics, including illegally barricading them, stealing fetal tissue, and even violently attacking patients and staff.
Indiana is trying to make abortion patients’ medical records public.
Teen Vogue asks an Ob/Gyn about common contraception myths.
Young women turn to sterilization as TFG’s administration wages war on reproductive rights.
Tiny plastic pollution more than 50% higher in placentas from preterm births than in those from full-term births.
Louisiana indicts doctor and mother for obtaining abortion pills for a minor.
Why did we ever stop calling these birth-obsessed zealots weird? Latest is that they want the Dept. of Transportation to prioritize projects in areas with “marriage an birth rates above the national average.”
Workplace Issues:
The current administration can’t stop talking about wanting women to have more babies. Yet they’re also canceling one of the things that makes parenting easier: the flexibility to work from home.
TFG canceled an executive order from 1965 (!) that forbade companies doing business with the federal government from “discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.”Make discrimination great again?
The crusade against “DEI” guts the team addressing obstacles for women in the Air Force.
Similarly, the anti-”DEI” crusade threatens the already small share of STEM jobs for women and BIPOC workers.
Violence and Harassment:
Creepy landlord sentenced to 20 years after demanding female tenants perform sex acts or have their power cut off.
Paula Doyle was raped by a man she had known for years. It took five painful years for the case to come to trial, but she was determined to fight for justice.
From Australia: How did sexual assault become so easy to get away with?
BBC’s Channel 4 may have violated Sexual Offences Act by showing a deepfake video of Scarlett Johansson as part of documentary.
Nancy Mace introduces bill claiming to protect women from rape by illegal immigrants — but her bill puts survivors in danger.
The 19th: What sex trafficking is — and isn’t.
Misc:
Afghanistan women’s cricket team offers hope.
Why we need more women in the AI revolution.
“Nanna mode:” Bring me all your movies & shows about older women.
British pop icon Marianne Faithfull dies at 78.
Utah’s first all-female government started as a joke. A century later, Kane County is making history again.
In India, Catholic women evangelists live up to Pope Francis’s call for female leadership.