PPIA's Weekly Wrap-up
Everything that WE think YOU should know about
this week in the world of reproductive health care, politics, women's rights,
and beyond:As the Republican National Convention ran this week, Think Progressive blogged minute-by-minute fact checks of the speeches.
During Romney's RNC acceptance speech, he remembers the aftermath to the 2008 election a little differently than most of us.
Planned Parenthood's 11-state bus tour made a big splash on the web this week.
An LGBTQ blogger went undercover at NOM's Anti-Gay Student Conference and uncovered some upsetting information.
Gender segregation in schools is found to be counter-productive and promotes harmful stereotypes.
Women are still being underrepresented in media coverage of the election.
Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the memoir The Chronology of Water, wrote a phenomenal piece about rape culture and male violence for therumpus.net.
Bic markets a line of pens for women as "Bic for Her" and gets mocked by the internet community.
Have a great weekend!
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