Just Good Shit: 05.08.22
Image: Sarah Epperson
It’s been a tough week for bodily autonomy. On top of Monday’s horrible Roe news, gender-affirming healthcare for minors is a felony in Alabama as of today. It’s hard not to feel abject dread and deep despair right now, but I’m trying to focus on pulling on my little threads, and I hope you’re doing the same.
Here’s what I have for you tonight…
My shit
And there’s a new episode of the podcast out!
Reading
Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century, The Atlantic.
The Limits of Privilege, The Cut.
“As we teeter on the threshold of the post-Roe world, it’s worth considering that the message that privileged women will be just fine is inaccurate and that its repetition, while well meaning, is counterproductive to the task of readying an unprepared public for massive and terrifying shifts on the horizon. It’s worth pointing out that it is simply not true that the reproductive options of white, middle-class, and even wealthy people are going to remain the same. Because while circumstances will certainly be graver and more perilous for the already vulnerable, the reality is that everything is about to change, for everyone, in one way or another, and to muffle that alarm is an error, factually, practically, and politically.”
God Damn America, Discourse Blog.
“Here is a brief and incomplete list of the people and institutions that can go fuck themselves this morning.”
Democratic Leaders Are Getting the Abortion Story Wrong — Again, The Cut.
A Q&A With Jessica Cisneros, the Pro-Choice Democrat Pelosi Isn’t Supporting, VICE.
The Wackadoodle Wave, The Atlantic.
This is a bad hed, but I think this article does a good job of explaining why, in a practical and logistical sense, increasingly extreme people are taking over the GOP.
Indignity Vol. 2, No. 37: Rights are for everyone., Indignity.
The Institutionalist's Dilemma, Alex Pareene.
“The legitimacy crisis is that our institutions are illegitimate. For my entire adult life, beginning with Bush v. Gore, our governing institutions have been avowedly antidemocratic and the left-of-center party has had no answer for that plain fact; no strategy, no plan, except to beg the electorate to give them governing majorities, which they then fail to use to reform the antidemocratic governing institutions.”
If Roe v. Wade falls, are LGBTQ rights next?, Vox.
Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone, Mother Jones.
The Holocaust Started With My Great-Uncle’s Murder, The Atlantic.
I Saw a Cool Truck Today, Alex Pareene.
Great blog about safety, public policy, and semis.
She Invented Adulting. Her Life Fell Apart. She Wants You to Know That’s Okay., Vanity Fair.
Jane Fonda, Then and Now, Glamour.
“I made this so you can turn your anger into action. We all can do something, here's how.” —Alison Turkos
Take care. 💛
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