Month: May 2019
How To Be Pro-Life
Tuesday
I’ve have a headache all day. Going to call it a night.
Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith – Artsy
Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith – Artsy:
Over her four-decade-long career, artist Kiki Smith has made sculptures of body parts, tapestries depicting animals and the cosmos, and drawings of wolves and women—a strange confluence of the corporeal and the fantastic, with distinct feminist undertones. Smith is known as a leader of the downtown art scene that emerged in Manhattan throughout the 1980s, and many of her pieces have a dark fairy-tale quality—as if they could illustrate pages from the Brothers Grimm. I expected for the artist herself to have a bit of magic about her.
Never Forget
TX House passes religious rights bill walking us a step back to theocracy | Planet Transgender
TX House passes religious rights bill walking us a step back to theocracy | Planet Transgender:
The religious rights bill heads back to the Senate without wording authorizing Attorney General Dan Paxton to sue San Antonio on behalf of Chick-Fill-A.
Domestic Violence Is The Most Common Killer Of Women Around The World | HuffPost
Domestic Violence Is The Most Common Killer Of Women Around The World | HuffPost:
The most dangerous place for women is in their own homes, a new report from the United Nations concludes.
On Transgender Health Care – Erie Reader
On Transgender Health Care – Erie Reader:
When is the last time you went to the doctor for a minor ailment and were told “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to treat you,” or “We don’t treat ‘people like you’ here.” Sounds far-fetched, doesn’t it? I mean, what doctor in their right mind would treat a patient so badly, or not treat them at all? Well, the truth is that it does happen, but generally only to those people who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. Transgender people have been making the news a lot more in recent years, but most of the buzz has been around bathroom usage instead of real problems like equal access to employment, to housing, and to culturally competent medical care.
Gay and transgender women have lower cancer survival rates, study reveals
Gay and transgender women have lower cancer survival rates, study reveals
LGBT+ women more likely not to have health insurance, as well as not have a personal doctor, avoid medical care due to costs, and be without an annual medical visit
Transgender people criminalised in every part of world – study
Transgender people criminalised in every part of world – study
Trans people are prosecuted in every corner of the world, with laws designed to preserve public order used in at least 26 countries, two of them in Eastern Europe, according to the Human Dignity Trust, a global LGBT+ rights advocacy group.
