The Secondhand Years. Dolly Rocker Girl. Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War. [Note for TomDispatch readers: Today, Erika Eichelberger, TomDispatch’s social media director, has written her first TD intro -- to Rebecca Solnit’s monumental piece. You’ll be hearing more from Erika this year and don’t forget to check out the very active TomDispatch Facebook fan page where she and I post every day. Tom] The Republican "war on women" helped define 2012. Its main offensives are well known, including the assertion that you can't get pregnant from rape; the obstruction of the Violence Against Women Act because it would have given Native American courts more jurisdiction over domestic violence; the demonizing of a woman who dared to assert that all women, rich and poor, deserve access to contraception; and the 43 new state laws passed last year restricting access to abortion.
And in case you thought it ended with election 2012, in just the past few weeks yet more absurdly egregious, albeit less publicized, assaults on women have been piling up. The same rainbow's end | american girl meets saudi boy. adventures ensue. From East to Southwest. To this northeastern girl, summer means three things: swimming, sprinkles, and sunscreen. Although I can enjoy a never-ending amount of the latter two in Santa Fe, the former presents a challenge – or so I thought. After just three weeks back in the southwest, the idea of a body of water seemed as impossible as […] I don’t always see the bright side of things. Maybe it’s the pressure of college, or city life, or being the youngest in a family of ridiculous overachievers (Attention? Where? Johnny Depp + the Remimbres tee by artist Ehren Kee Natay from the Artist Designed Collection – available at the 2013 Santa Fe Indian Market.
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