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Jun. 5th, 2010 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhIdol Ceremony, one of my favorite etsy stores, is having a 30% off sale! Today is the last day, so get over there.
The New York City libraries are facing massive budget cuts, to the extent that they will have to completely close 10 branches, and all libraries will only be open four days a week. Help protest this! You do not have to be a resident of NYC to help; even if your sole association for NYC libraries are those statues of the lions outside the one on 42nd street, please help.
If It Was My Home: I know everyone already knows how awful the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is, but this is a great website for the visceral feel of it.
When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident: a really fascinating and horrifying article on abusive relationships and pregnancy. Leyla's story turns a modern fable on its head: that of the woman—call her the femme fertile—who conspires to get pregnant, perhaps by "forgetting" to take her birth control pills, as a way to “trap a man” and force marriage—or at least keep him in her life. In reality, experts researchers on dating violence and unintended pregnancy say, it’s Leyla's version of that story is all too common. Two new studies have quantified what advocates for young women’s health have observed for years: the striking frequency with which it is in fact young men who try to force their partners to get pregnant.
Macbeth comics!
The New York City libraries are facing massive budget cuts, to the extent that they will have to completely close 10 branches, and all libraries will only be open four days a week. Help protest this! You do not have to be a resident of NYC to help; even if your sole association for NYC libraries are those statues of the lions outside the one on 42nd street, please help.
If It Was My Home: I know everyone already knows how awful the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is, but this is a great website for the visceral feel of it.
When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident: a really fascinating and horrifying article on abusive relationships and pregnancy. Leyla's story turns a modern fable on its head: that of the woman—call her the femme fertile—who conspires to get pregnant, perhaps by "forgetting" to take her birth control pills, as a way to “trap a man” and force marriage—or at least keep him in her life. In reality, experts researchers on dating violence and unintended pregnancy say, it’s Leyla's version of that story is all too common. Two new studies have quantified what advocates for young women’s health have observed for years: the striking frequency with which it is in fact young men who try to force their partners to get pregnant.
Macbeth comics!
