Tess Bird, feminist poet, spoke at Sunken Garden Poetry Festival

On June 25, 2008, our own UConn Women’s Studies grad, Tess Bird, read several of her poems at the Hillstead Museum’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. She was one of the winners in the Connecticut Poetry Circuit competition. Her feminist strength came through in all the poems but I especially liked her last poem where she [...]

Hymen replacement in France on the rise

Judith Warner wonders about the patriarchal control of women’s sexuality in the excellent opinion piece from the NYT on June 12, 2008.

Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org

Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
The question of when life begins is an incredibly complex one with enormous legal and ethical ramifications for contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research and the very definition of our humanity.
Colorado voters will decide this thorny question in November.
On [...]