Portland political cartoonist Matt Bors runs comics in the back of the Mercury every week and now he’s put together this fun little video about a superhero uterus. Bonus: the ladypart is voiced by Backfence PDX producer Frayn Masters. .
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The Sexism Tax
Oregon government’s been trying to close the wage gap for 57 years—but women are still shortchanged.
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Portland’s Crisis Pregnancy Centers are Targeting Hipsters
Crisis pregnancy centers are nonprofit, church-run outposts that provide free advice and support to women who think they might be pregnant. But unlike Planned Parenthood, they don’t refer for abortions and they often distribute misleading information. Portland has a bunch of crisis pregnancy centers, like pretty much every American city. But check out the photos […]
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If You’re Anti-Abortion, You Should be Pro-Birth Control
We’ve been through this before. But one more time: The best way to reduce the number of abortions in America is to provide ladies free birth control. A new study tracked 9,000 women in St. Louis who were offered their choice of free birth control. Surprise! With free access to birth control, women had way […]
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Yes, Women Make Less Money Than Men—Even in Portland, Even Without Kids
Unless you’re a Republican strategist, you understand the sad reality that women in this country make less money than men. There are a bunch of reasons for this, none of which make me feel any better about the world. There’s taking time off to raise kids, there’s entering fields that pay less, there’s being offered […]
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The Moral Case For Sex Before Marriage
Writer Jill Filipovic has a great, short piece about why having sex before marriage is good for our morals. Basically: Sex makes us much happier people. Much, much happier. You should feel okay about having sex as consistently as possible, because the average brain is certainly better for it: 95 percent of Americans don’t wait […]
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It’s Not a Pissing Contest
Why do we get so squeamish about gender-neutral bathrooms?
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Providence Hospital Refuses to Carry Street Roots Resource Guide that Lists Planned Parenthood
The Rose City Resource is a helpful, pocket-size guide published by Street Roots that lists services available to low-income people around Portland. Among its list of healthcare providers, the guide lists Planned Parenthood, an organization you may have heard of that provides reproductive healthcare, breast cancer exams, birth control, and abortion services to 60,000 Oregonians […]
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Portland Rockers Sound off on Pussy Riot
Portland rockers sound off on Pussy Riot.
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Just to Clarify, Human Vaginas Don’t Work Like Ducks’
Yesterday, Missouri state representative and GOP senate candidate Todd Akin secured himself a place in the shameful history hall of fame and butt of internet jokes forever canon when he had uttered this line about rape and female physiology during a TV interview. INTERVIEWER: What about [abortion] in the case of rape? TODD AKIN: People […]
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“People Think We’re a Tranny Bar.”
LGBT media outlet The Advocate picked up the story this week of a group of transgender women who were asked to never return to North Portland bar the P-Club. According to a report on our local FOX affiliate, a group of trans ladies went to the P-Club regularly every Friday night for two years. Then, […]
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Pussy Riot Forever!
As mentioned in Good Morning News, the Russian punk band Pussy Riot has been found guilty of “hooliganism driven by religious hatred” for performing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral and sentenced to two years in prison. Today has been declared worldwide Pussy Riot day and there’s a solidarity protest today in Pioneer Square at […]