GORE VIDAL, Elder statesman of American Rape Apology and Transphobia
[Content Note: The following contains Rape Apology, Transphobia, and Cissexism] If you hadn’t heard: Gore Vidal is dead. While the hagiographers are still pinning down just the right words to eulogize...
View ArticleStop referring to ‘free birth control,’ because it ain’t
A lot of misleading language surrounds health insurance reform—and yes, it is health insurance reform, not health care reform, because the focus is on the insurance industry—in the United States, along...
View ArticleGot ID?
The escalating war on voting rights in the United States has come with a lot of discussion about voter identification, which is rightly pointed to as a form of voter suppression. Requiring people to...
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HIATUS: Garland Goes To The Woods
For the next few months I’m going to be living in a place without stable Internet access, so I’ll be on indefinite hiatus from Tiger Beatdown for the foreseeable future. My parents are building a cabin...
View ArticleBecause everyone deserves sick days
One of the many things that used to distinguish freelancing from other forms of employment was the lack of sick days. If you were sick, you either worked anyway, or you didn’t work, and you lost out on...
View ArticleLives worth living: Disability, abortion, and slipshod ethics
I’m still seething over this post at Reproductive Health Reality Check, in which I am essentially informed that my life has so little value, is so not worth living, that I was such a burden on my...
View ArticleHate, fear, and rhetoric: The labeling of hate crimes in the United States
Two weeks ago, the news exploded with a shooting at the Family Research Council which injured a security guard in the arm. Conservatives immediately went on the attack, labeling the shooting...
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