Becky Blab

Click here to see the comments that ensue! WHILE THE FEMINIST movement may have focused more on the right to abortion than other reproductive rights, there is a growing acknowledgment in the US and elsewhere that women’s right to safe, natural childbirth is being severely threatened by the imposition of the medical model. In the [...]

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In another instance illustrating the apparent ease of birth, a teenager has given birth unassisted on a toilet after thinking that she had taken appropriate precautions by taking emergency contraception (EC). Of course this also indicates the need for compulsory sex education, as doctors concur that it is a regular occurrance that girls become pregnant [...]

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Did you know that giving birth doesn’t have to be painful? And that our beliefs that it will be actually contribute to making it so? Ina May Gaskin, pictured below, says that birth ecstasy and even orgasm can happen if the woman finds herself in the proper setting. “I mean, it’s not a guarantee,” she [...]

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For the first time, eunuchs are being factored into Centre’s policy-making, with Union social justice and empowerment ministry (MSJ) naming them as a target group in its schemes for de-addiction from alcoholism and substance abuse. It is saddening that eunuchs/hijras are only just now being included national policy, especially one such as de-addiction–indicating the difficult [...]

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Check out this lovely and brief video piece about feminism in India from True Tube (Click on “Feminism Here and There”). It even mentions the Rani of Jhansi! Via Feministing.

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