Amanda Marcotte writes for and manages the blog Pandagon, blogs for Slate's Double X, and has two books out: "It's A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments" and "Get Opinionated: A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action)". She's written about politics, pop culture and feminism for outlets such as Slate, Salon, the LA Times, the Guardian, Bitch, and the American Prospect. A former resident of Texas, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Forty percent of adults ages 18-29 don’t really believe birth control matters, and you’ll get pregnant when fate decrees. They’re underestimating their fertility and the effectiveness of contraception. The real question is why?
Even though the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer, only 20% of girls are getting all three shots. Maybe it’s time to highlight how it not only prevents cancer, but also that it prevents other medical complications.
When Gov. Phil Bryant claimed to believe that liberals just love abortion for its own sake, he was clearly lying. But that doesn’t mean we can’t understand what he’s really stabbing at, which is a deep-set fear of female independence.
A recent Associated Press story mis-reported that a bill in Alabama would restrict access to emergency contraception. In fact, the bill restricts medical abortion, a safe, easy method of early termination. The whole incident underscores why it’s important for the mainstream media to be clear on these distinctions.
The past week had a lot of conservative posturing about the importance of motherhood. But if you look at their policy ideas — especially around reproductive rights — you’ll realize they don’t think much of motherhood after all.
The language in a new abstinence-only bill that passed the Tennessee senate demonstrates the profound misunderstanding of sexual realities that guides the anti-choice movement.
Smuggled into an already-odious bill banning abortions at 20 weeks in Arizona is a provision requiring that “pregnancy” be counted from the first day of a woman’s menstrual period, making “pregnancy” begin legally two weeks before conception.
Unable to hide behind “religious liberty” and called out for using words like “slut” and “prostitute”, anti-choicers are trying a third defense in the War on Contraception: Deny that it ever happened.
Many panels about sex and dating at the annual South by Southwest conference feature online feminists promoting feminist ideas to a male-heavy, often hostile audience. Why doing this work is both important and rewarding.
Rush Limbaugh “apologizes” for his tirades against Sandra Fluke by suggesting that the only real problem is that he didn’t use better euphemisms when accusing 99 percent of American women of being sexually deviant because they use contraception.
