Saturday, July 18, 2015

Ugh, Anti-Abortionists... Again

I'll start by laying out all my biases. I'm pro-choice, I'm sex-positive, and I'm feminist, i.e. I believe women should be the ONLY people with the right to choose what they want to do with their own bodies.

That said, even though I'm pro-choice, I do understand the sentiment of people who are pro-life. I don't support women who utilize abortion as a form of birth control and, like many pro-choicers, I don't support late-term abortions.

What I hate the most out of this entire debate, aside from the complete lack of any kind of civil and sane conversation, is anti-abortionists who think it is their God-given right to do anything to make their point, such as secretly record a Planned Parenthood doctor and then editing a video to intentionally mislead viewers. I'm not saying that Planned Parenthood doesn't alter abortion methods to preserve fetal organs for donation; I don't know what they do because I don't work there.

What I am saying though is that I find the use of propaganda, the harassment of people outside clinics, the existence of "crisis pregnancy centers" that give false information to deter women from abortion, and the use of violence against abortion providers utterly despicable and abhorrent.

Anti-Abortionists, the only thing you are doing is harming the pro-life cause.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

How I Am #RedefiningHERstory: Becoming a Social Activist

Originally posted on Truth In Reality.

I think I’ve always wanted to be an activist. When I was younger, social injustices would make me furious while my peers would shrug and go, “Well, what can you do?” And I couldn’t answer that question. I didn’t know what I could do. Or rather, I thought that there was nothing I could do. I believed that activism was something that other better stronger people could do. So I did other things. I pursued a career in academia because I figured at the very least my work at an educational institution could change students’ lives by expanding their minds.

Time jump!

Almost two years since I last posted. Wowsa. Lots has changed. Too much to put in one post. So... it will come out slowly over time. Maybe.