UPDATE: Mary Winkler has regained custody of her three daughters and has taken them home. Over the past two years the girls have been living with Matthew Winkler’s parents, their paternal grandparents, who have been attempting to get Mary Winkler’s parental rights terminated so that they could adopt the girls. For a time via various [...]
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In my e-mailbox this morning:
Dear Editor,
I am writing from Women Make Movies, a non-profit distributor of independent educational media, to let you know about the upcoming national PBS broadcast of SISTERS IN LAW, a powerful documentary about two extraordinary African women who are determined to change their community are making progress that could change the [...]
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Note: Following is a blog post I wrote last February after having received the press release which follows from the Karen Women’s Organization. The situation has, of course, come to a head in Burma. I am writing about it and wanted to provide this history, particularly of what has been happening to the women of Burma. — Heart
February12, [...]
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(The above image of of the Duggar family was posted to a blog of a woman who seems to be, in general, a decent person.)
Found on various blogs via a quick Google search on “Duggar Family”:
The mother has a mullet. Please, someone from TLC, give the poor Duggar woman a makeover. That would be a [...]
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Image from our sisters at Friends of the Lolas
The world breaks open. Underneath the layers, transcending the past, making the present.
I have seen it written. In the hour of our forced surrender. The world will diminish as the time draws near.
Aching with the lost and ancient tidings, her beginning has come. Rekindling our magic. Lusty, [...]
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Why Do Girls Face Discrimination?
Girls face the double challenge of being female and being young, which can result in them having little opportunity to make decisions about their lives. Discrimination against girls is grounded in a series of traditions and norms, based on the assumption that biological differences between females and males justify that girls [...]
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I just received this urgent plea from my long time sister from the old Ms Boards, Echidne of the Snakes:
Dear Heart,
I got this letter today, and help is needed urgently:
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I just received a very desperate plea from a local clinic for funding for a patient that I will be unable to help. Our fund has assisted [...]
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Michael Coates cries after Dr. Heather Olson, left, of the Auburn Community Dental Clinic, tells him his blood pressure is too high for her to administer a pain-relief injection. Coates, suffering with four infected wisdom teeth, got the shot later but cannot afford to have the teeth pulled as needed.
Note: I originally posted this last [...]
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Thanks to “Duke University, the New York Times, HBO, and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival,” evidently, the world is blessed with a new “documentary” created by Larry Flynt, the man who has amassed a fortune selling hatred of women, racism and mistreatment of animals and by exploiting and cashing in on the most destructive and violent of human impulses and [...]
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