Consent and Sexual Entitlement: A Case for Truly Comprehensive Sexuality...
The following guest post comes to us from Catherine Sharp, a Tucson volunteer who worked for 10 years in finance and operations for an online media company. Catherine volunteers for Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleBrothers in Arms, Part 2: Race and Abortion from Roe to the Reagan Years
This article is our second installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and opposition to abortion. Previously, this series examined how fears...
View ArticleBook Club: Her Body, Our Laws
By 2014, law professor Michelle Oberman was no stranger to El Salvador. She had already spent four years making research trips to the Central American country, but that June she would need a local...
View ArticleFive Things to Know About the Morning-After Pill on Its 20th Anniversary
Medication portion of PREVEN Emergency Contraceptive Kit. Photo: Smithsonian Institution In 1993, the New York Times Magazine posited that the morning-after pill might be “the best-kept contraceptive...
View ArticleThe Past Isn’t Always in the Past: Covington Catholic and the Politics of...
Nathan Phillips (center) leads a dance at the Indigenous Peoples March. Image (detail): Joe Flood It was hard to miss the video that went viral on the weekend of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. On...
View ArticleSentencing Survivors: The Trials of Joan Little and Cyntoia Brown
Cyntoia Brown. Photo: Tennessee Department of Corrections After spending almost half her life behind bars, Cyntoia Brown leaves prison this month, freed on the clemency she received in January. Brown...
View ArticleBefore Roe v. Wade: The 50th Anniversary of a Landmark California Case
Demonstrator at New York City Women’s March, January 21, 2017. Photo: © Edith Marie Photography “Should abortion be legalized?” That was the question posed on a forum in 1964 on Pacifica Radio. Nine...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Fighting STDs with Education
Here in Arizona, Tucson Unified School District has been taking steps toward adopting a comprehensive, inclusive, age-appropriate, and medically accurate sex education program, but it’s been repeatedly...
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