NOW in Boston

I am going to the NOW conference in Boston this summer! Sales from my shop will hopefuly help me pay for it. So I am discounting some paintings pretty steeply and I will be putting some new stuff up soon. I am also particularly receptive to commisions now, as school is almost over. Please come on over and get some art to send me to Boston! I am already registered and really, really really excited.

TBTN scrapbook!

TBTN

We had our Take Back The Night march and rally thursday, it was pretty great. We had a nice turnout, the marchers were loud and enthusiastic, the music was great and there wasn't any trouble. Unfortunately over at Rutgers there were some attacks on marchers. 'Shit's ridiculous.

So I got sick right after the show but the Vagina Monologues was AWESOME! I went with a Professor and a friend of mine and it was a really good time. There was a devastating last section but there were also the standard really funny parts and I bought some vagina shaped lollipops afterword.
ps So I have been watching Bart Stupak and company being unyielding douchebags for a while now, then I see today this link persuasively arguing that he is most likely lying about votes in the threats he has been using to muscle reproductive restrictions into the healthcare reform bill. Also, though it is not directly his doing I also feel like I have to mention this, a bill recently on the table in Utah that would criminalize miscarriages with possible life in prison for the woman. These are measures that are embarassingly clear about the intention to keep women as breeding stock.

Vagina Monologues this weekend! I am excited and going saturday. should be awesome.

Here's a link to one of the groups promoting comprehensive sex ed.

I stumbled accross a facebook petition to maintain funding only to abstinence only education. Further, it explains that they demand no funding to any program that includes any information about family planning or contraceptives, replacing these with "marriage education". This ensures the absolute ignorance of not only teens, but married adults, as they are not taught anything about their body's functions and marriage does not immediately endow this knowledge. I am looking for a counter- group, I am really disapointed because many of my aquaintences have joined this petition.