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All Hail the King!...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Photo by Jane Hahn/Getty Images. For your weekend reading pleasure, I’m sharing this amazing, inspirational long feature from the Washington Post Magazine. “All The King’s Men” is the story of Peggielene Bartels, a Washington-area secretary who was recently crowned Nana Amuah...
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Hope And Change In India...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 10th, 2010 | 7 Comments
Indian women celebrate after the Women's Reservation Bill is passed. The world’s largest democracy made history this week when Indian lawmakers approved a historic bill that would set aside one-third of all seats in India’s parliament for women. Only 59 women were elected to the current...
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Honorary Harpies: Women of the Wall...

Posted by BeckySharper in Honorary Harpies on 02 1st, 2010 | 24 Comments
Breaking the law. Photo via Women of the Wall. In December 1988, a group of Jewish women calling themselves the Women of the Wall began what would become an over 20 year battle for women’s rights. Their mission? To pray together at Judaism’s holiest site, the Kotel (aka the Western or Wailing...
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Abortion Politics in Australia...

Posted by The Harpies in Guest Post on 01 27th, 2010 | 8 Comments
Via Proggie @ Flickr. This guest-post comes from Australian harpy Mackey. It was written in the spirit of the cross-border conversations that happen at the Pursuit of Harpyness, and the sharing of experiences. In Australia, there is no federal case like Roe v Wade that establishes legalised abortion....
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Thanks a Fucking Lot, Arlen Specter....

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 01 21st, 2010 | 17 Comments
If you’re going spew male privilege all over the place, could you please choose a different target? Because this time you chose that most loathsome of right-wing nutjobs, Michele Bachmann. Goddamnit, I was so conflicted, I practically turned inside out when I read this: A heated political debate...
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Harpy Seminar: Sarah Palin’s New G...

Posted by BeckySharper in Harpy Seminar on 01 13th, 2010 | 9 Comments
Since ditching her job as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin’s been on the road, speaking, promoting her book and generally making the kind of money and attention that she never got from that the pesky desk job in Juneau. This week we learned that she’s joining the ranks of the propagandists...
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Justice for Ruchika...

Posted by BeckySharper in Harpy Shout-out, Thoughts on 01 6th, 2010 | 5 Comments
Ruchika Girhotra. The two weeks I was in India, I read the Times of India every day. The Times is the world’s largest English-language daily newspaper by circulation, with a readership of 13.3 million. It is of a decidedly progressive bent, and the stories are expressive, opinionated and don’t...
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Annise Parker’s Victory: A Step Fo...

Posted by sarah.of.a.lesser.god in Thoughts on 12 14th, 2009 | 12 Comments
Well done, Ms. Parker and the city of Houston! via david ortez @ flickr Houston, Texas made history on Saturday by electing city comptroller Annise Parker to be mayor. Parker ran on the always-popular crime reduction platform, and was a solid, above-the-mudslinging-fray campaigner. But that’s...
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Make Coakley #18!...

Posted by PhDork in Harpy Shout-out on 12 9th, 2009 | 14 Comments
Have we any Massachusetts residents* among our readers?  If so, may I urge you to donate to–or at least vote for–Martha Coakley, currently your Attorney General, to take over the late lamented Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat? Yesterday, Coakley handily won the Democratic primary, and is...
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Where Do We Go From Here?...

Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 12 2nd, 2009 | 19 Comments
Want. Via productionapparel on www.Etsy.com. I am feeling more disheartened than usual after reading this New Yorker piece about American attitudes about abortion in light of the Stupak amendment. Jennifer Senior’s thorough, thoughtful essay explores how public opinion and public policy have...
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Men Leaders Notice Lady Problems...

Posted by PhDork in Thoughts on 11 30th, 2009 | 10 Comments
I have eaten my birthweight in pumpkin products and spent an absurd amount of time sleeping these last few days; two lovely things I wish I had occasion to do more often.  I hope you’re all feeling as rested and pleasantly roly-poly. During one of my brief  interludes of conciousness, I came...
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You Can Put Down Your Champagne Now...

Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 11 7th, 2009 | 26 Comments
As usual, if you want to get anything done in America, step one is to sacrifice the mental and physical health of women by making it an Abortion Issue.  So although HR 218 passed about forty minutes ago, it passed with an amendment which prohibits any insurance company receiving federal funds from covering...
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