Oftentimes women who are trying to defend themselves against their abusers end up incarcerated, further entwining the prison industrial complex and domestic violence with women’s health outcomes.
“When I heard about the ban on transgender recruits going into the military, I was frustrated, upset, and confused. It was like an attack on me, and I didn’t even do anything.”
“We can’t understand the rise of Trump, or combat the forces he represents, without attention to reproductive politics," explains University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Laura Briggs in How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump.
On this day, let’s praise the great things made possible by birth control, but let’s also not forget that we’re still in the middle of a fight to keep birth control affordable and accessible.
While it’s critically important that the trans community remains politically active in electoral campaigns, canvassing and phone-banking can present particular challenges to trans volunteers.
Heart-stopping sex might be rarer than we think. IUDs might lower your risk for cervical cancer. And a vibrator “accidentally” recorded a couple’s sex toy session.
That it emerged in the first place is a reminder that plenty of people continue to pathologize adolescent sexual expression and view it as something in need of constant monitoring and regulation under the guise of preventing harm.
