SheKos Takes a Summer Vacay!

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Thursday June 24, 2010 · 10:03 AM PDT

2010/06/24 · 10:03

It's Summertime in SheKosisistan!!!

by earicicle, SheKos editor

As SheKos contributor pat of butter in a sea of grits has so well described, American workers lag far behind when it comes to "radical" benefits such as maternity leave. Most peeps here in the Good Ole U. S. of A. get a pitiful two weeks of vacation time per year. If they're lucky, that is, to have a corporate master generous enough to grant them "benefits" at all.

But the Most Gracious Overlords (Overladies?) of SheKos aspire to the high socialist standards of Sexy Swedes, Daring Danes, Feisty Finns and Naughty Norwegians.

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Thursday June 17, 2010 · 10:01 AM PDT

2010/06/17 · 10:01

Sometimes Winning Feels Like Losing

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

It's been a depressing year so far for proponents of women's reproductive freedom. In state after state, legislatures have been considering and even approving bills that force women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound and "see their baby" before the procedure can be performed. Since early pregnancies usually require an invasive ultrasound involving the use of a wand being inserted into the vagina, this amounts to legally-mandated medical rape. A provision like this recently became law in Oklahoma.

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Thursday June 10, 2010 · 10:04 AM PDT

2010/06/10 · 10:04

This week, we are very pleased to welcome back KentuckyKat after a long hiatus. Please greet her in comments!

BP Oil Darkens Future for Three Louisiana Tribes

by Aji, SheKos contributor

The disaster in the Gulf weighs heavily on my mind and spirit. For Native Americans, the terrible destruction wrought by British Petroleum and by America's laissez-faire regulatory policies holds a deeper dimension. It is defilement. It is desecration. It is devastation to an already-endangered way of life.

I've written in the past about how, for many of our peoples, the earth is our mother - Akii. That term holds very real significance for us, both culturally and spiritually. Acts that do violence to her do violence to us all.

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 10:04 AM PDT

2010/06/03 · 10:04

The GOP's Sudden Female Candidate Syndrome

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

Something rather strange is happening in the Republican party this year. Andrew Sullivan referred to it (with, importantly, a question mark) as "a shot of estrogen." In the coming mid-term elections, the party that previously couldn't really be bothered to even pay lip service to women as serious players in their sandbox has suddenly shown a change of heart, fielding 14 female candidates for the Senate and a whopping 97 Republican women running for the House.

And there are similarly lots of women running for local and state offices all over the country.

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Thursday May 27, 2010 · 10:14 AM PDT

2010/05/27 · 10:14

Today, we gratefully welcome back Aji's "Sage and Sweetgrass" column after several weeks' hiatus! Be sure to read to the end and to greet her in the comments.

Scott Roeder and the Anti-Choice Conspiracy

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

This week, Ms. Magazine ran an article by Amanda Robb that explores, and ultimately shatters, the stubborn assertion by militant anti-choicers that murderer Scott Roeder and others who choose to resort to homicide to stop abortion are "lone wolves" who act alone, without support and encouragement. Robb has uncovered intersecting connections that clearly reveal a network of like-minded abortion-haters who are convinced that violence is justified by their cause.

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Thursday May 20, 2010 · 9:57 AM PDT

2010/05/20 · 09:57

NOTE: Congratulations to SheKos editor Kaili Joy Gray aka Angry Mouse on her promotion to Contributing Editor! We love ya, Mouse!

Inventive Vision Creates Prize-Winning Tool for the Blind

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

If you're a regular reader of the SheKos series - and really, why wouldn't you be? - you may remember my story from a few weeks ago about three Palestinian teenage girls from a refugee camp in Nablus on the West Bank who invented a revolutionary electronic cane for the blind.

At the time I wrote that, the girls were excitedly preparing to show their invention at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, CA, which took place last week.

They didn't win the grand prize, but they sure didn't lose, either.

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Thursday May 06, 2010 · 11:57 AM PDT

2010/05/06 · 11:57

State of the World's Mothers

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

If you've ever wondered where is the best place in the world to be a mother, I can answer that question. This year, it's Norway. Australia comes in second, followed by Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark.

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Thursday April 29, 2010 · 10:26 AM PDT

2010/04/29 · 10:26

From Survival to Empowerment

by Oke, SheKos contributor

When you grow up powerless over what is done to your body, and you have to let it happen so you can survive, you become an adult who continues to allow anything to be done to your body to maintain survival. You learned to survive the beatings before you learned the alphabet. The words--they aren't so easy to ignore. They stay longer than the bruises and the welts.

The damage doesn't just include the physical. It is the mental, the emotional, the inner essence that is taken. This happens so often that with time you just let anything happen to you, be said to you, be taken from you. Because that is all you know.

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 10:10 AM PDT

2010/04/22 · 10:10

Informational Rape

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

I remember when I first applied for my driver's license. I went down to the DMV, took a test, filled out a bunch of paperwork... then I was forced to experience an actual traffic accident. My head hit the driver's side window hard enough to spider-web cracks through it and I suffered a concussion. My chest and ribs were bruised from the restraining force of the seat belt.

This was necessary for me to fully understand the potential consequences of becoming a driver.

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Thursday April 15, 2010 · 10:18 AM PDT

2010/04/15 · 10:18

Blog (unpaid) for Fair Pay!

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

You might recall that in late January, I wrote about how the passage of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act's sister bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act, was crucial if the gender pay gap was ever to be seriously addressed legislatively. That's because while Ledbetter merely undid a SCOTUS decision that limited workers' ability to sue employers for unlawful pay imbalances, Paycheck Fairness actually addresses those imbalances in an effective manner.

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Thursday April 08, 2010 · 10:21 AM PDT

2010/04/08 · 10:21

Help Wanted - Female

by LeanneB, SheKos editor

Hey, you know that part of the current Democratic Party platform that talks about the party's commitment to preparing more Democratic women to run for public office? You don't? Well, it's positively criminal that SheKossacks should be in the dark about this. Let's rectify that right now.

Here's the relevant passage:

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Thursday April 01, 2010 · 10:07 AM PDT

2010/04/01 · 10:07

Extra special guest contributions by droogie6655321, Bill in Portland Maine, The Termite and Jeff Lieber.

What-the-what? That's right, SheKos is missing an S, and is plus a Y chromosome!

The fine ladies of SheKos have invited yours truly, droogie6655321, along with fellow male snarksters Bill in Portland Maine, The Termite and Jeff Lieber. And we're going to trick out with our pricks out this April Fool's Day!

This week it's all links, no patties! All rockets, no sockets! (I promised to deliver the dick jokes... apparently Angry and Ear and the rest can't get enough!)

So here we go. Get your tips ready, do not touch the diarists unless we touch you first, tip your waitresses, try the veal and inhale the manly musk of HeKos!

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