NYU-WAG (Women's Alliance Group)

2003-12-19T07:46:00.000-08:00

Anyone who is interested in having a role organizing people to go down to the March to Save Women's Lives on April 25, 2004, there will be a meeting on January 31st to go over a plethora of useful information and ways to talk to different groups to get them to sign on. All the pertinent information is here, along with some other interesting links. I know, it still says the date is the 10th, but it is the 31st, to make sure we have everyone back from winter break. Suzannah, the field organizer from NOW, is an amazing woman with a lot of energy and she has a lot of faith in our abilities as young feminists to be a powerful contingent within the movement. I highly recommend getting involved.

2003-12-17T02:41:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, on December 16, a committee hearing on Emergency Contraception resulted in a 23-4 recommendation to the head of the FDA that it be available over the counter. Committee recommendations, especially ones with such a large number of people in support of the issue voted upon, usually successfully get approved. This is a huge accomplishment for women's rights groups that have been fighting for this for so long.
However, the arguments against it were still similar to ones we have heard before, talking about how the availability of EC would result in less responsible sexual behavior, would encourage young people to have sex, and how EC actually did abort a pregnancy. Obviously we have a long way to go to guarantee our right to make our private business in the bedroom truly private, and to ensure that legal decisions about women's health are based on fact, not scare tactics or falsehoods.

2003-12-09T16:16:00.000-08:00

If anyone reads Time Magazine, I got a letter published about Carol Moseley Braun and her candidacy in response to an article a few weeks back discussing if any candidate could catch Dean. Also, we're starting up an NYU for Carol Moseley Braun group. Email the now-nyu listserve for more info.

2003-11-16T12:15:00.000-08:00

Wed November 19th 7pm Kimmel 802
Bush's War on Us!
Hear speakers talk about the Bush administration's
attacks on:
Healthcare
Environment
Civil Liberties
Reproductive Rights

Cosponsored by: Voices for Choice, ACLU at NYU, Earth Matters! and the International Socialist Organization of NYU

and later on that night:

There are 8600 AIDS Deaths Every Day.
We Can Prevent Them. Find Out How.
First General Recruitment Meeting for
The Student Global AIDS Campaign @ NYU
New Club in Development
There will be free food and a short movie.
Wednesday, November 19 8:30 Pm Kimmel 908
Questions: email SGACatNYU@yahoo.com

2003-11-02T08:49:00.000-08:00

Mon 11/3 at 7pm in Kimmel 912
Global Women: A Coffeehouse Teach-in on Women's Rights
Speakers from Equality Now and the Center for Reproductive Rights will talk about the trafficking of women into the sex industry and the availability of healthcare to women worldwide.
Fair trade coffee and desserts will be served!

2003-10-29T08:50:00.000-08:00

I forgot to post this but if anyone is interested in MORE information about Alix Olson visit her http://www.alixolson.com/

*****FOR Jesse...& Ellen or anyone who had difficulty inserting a hyperlink into the blogger...
While you are typing in "new post" there is an option for spell check, and between the icons for bold, italic, post & publish you should see a globe symbol with a paperclip (?) attached to it. If you click the world icon (globe) it will bring up a window, type the URL, press OKAY. This will insert the HTML tag for a hyperlink into your text!

2003-10-29T08:21:00.000-08:00

The following is a poem written by slam poet Alix Olson, who I've had the pleasure of meeting for several events. I hope everyone has the opportunity to see her perform, because her spirit is magnetic, and her sense of self righteous energy-contagious.
Enjoy,
Tara

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Daughter
Alix Olson (c) 2000; Excerpt of Only The Starving Favor Peace.

I'll teach my daughter to bang on anything that makes a beat.
she'll shake-a-boom, she'll quake a room
she'll paint her cheeks warrior-style, then smile
beguile you, turn you inside out til your guts plead guilty.

She'll be built like a truck, built to work you down
as she works herself up
She'll make holes in the street in her ten inch spike heels,
in combat boots, stilts, on roller wheels,
she'll stroll through Male Pride
Amazon Babes at her side.

She'll relinquish White Privilege
observe, be wise, she'll compromise
when the fire is stoked by other womyn's desires
but she'll never leave the flame.

All the same, she'll crave what makes her burn
she'll learn her Cunt's good name-
the thick liquid lips, the small hot tip
no more of this cryptic shit.
This Vagina will be known.

She'll park in all the wrong places,
make faces at police cars,
wind up behind bars, bust out big before serving her time,
fingernails full of this grime we call

Reality,
She'll dig her way through.

She'll pick her nose when she has to,
she'll scratch her ass,
she'll be a crass medusa child
a wild healthy fiend
she'll live in all fonts and all sizes
curly q's, caps, italics, and Bold.

She'll fold airplanes out of shredded Cosmos and Mademoiselles,
then pilot them to Never-Say-Never Land
where Peter Pan's gay and Wendy's
ok with it.

She'll wear thick braids, she'll shave her head,
she'll eat thick breads, she'll let her breasts flop,
she'll mop the floor like Cinderella, then with
Rebellion- Prowess,
she'll unionize daughters for a higher allowance.
She'll be male and female and
in-between.
She'll preen, then crack her mirror, crack a beer
and watch Love Connection.
She'll go for days without taking a shower
just to feel unchained ivory-slave power.

She'll want more than what she's 'entitled to'
she'll watch through Nike commercials and she'll
Just Un-Do It
ask who's making that shit, who's breaking their backs
keeping her breaking that
glass ceiling.

she'll do all of this.

and she'll do none of this.

and it's funny how we hide behind these daughters,
hide ahead of our own Herstories
scared of ourselves
scared of the world
scared of someone who made us
one way
or another.

Well, this time around, I'll be bound to my own
mind womb
in my own birthing room,
i'll squeeze out, squeeze out
each crimson thick belief
then eat each pungent, sweet placenta
and relieved,

I will tear up this country's
"Welcome to the World" certificate,
tear off my father's
father's father's father's
name,
i'll legitimate my own entrance into a
Thinking Existence
I will birth myself towards
Resistance.

But no frantic tick-tock of this Biological Clock.
On my own time, Foremothers at my sides,
Sisters as midwives,
i'll cut my cord, head for that War
i will mother myself into my own grown daughter
and I will call myself
a home-grown
woman

2003-10-26T08:42:00.000-08:00

What is the Value of the Fetus? NYTimes Op/Ed
This is an interesting argument about how the pro-choice movement should shift its views on the fetus in order to gain more support.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/opinion/26SALE.html?th

2003-10-23T02:16:00.000-07:00

Machinery Behind the Facade of Perfection...

Look behind the curtain and see that the Wizard of OZ is a scared society--the politics of beauty is less about looks & more about behavior.

Sadly, Eleanor Rosevelt when asked if she had any regrets about her life shared, 'Just one. I wish I'd been prettier.'

The politization of beauty should be taught in schools; it would help to create a healthier diversity where seven year old girls of normal weight wouldn't think they were fat - to instil in each child that he or she is beautiful, unique, and that means placing the power to decide what is beautiful within ourselves not in an 'all-powerful' hey, out there.

Though Ms. Eleanor rose above her shy, restricted, betrayed upbringing into a compassionate humane leader of her time, she was haunted by an uncertain, unpretty girl of the past.

....but I look forward to the day when bodies of women in public and private life are no more subject to scrutiny then men's are.

Happy Celebrate your Body Day to all and to all a g'nite!

****I'm not sure when the 'nominated' body appreciation day is, but today is as good as any other (does anyone have it on a calander?)

2003-10-22T16:41:00.000-07:00

Hey ladies!
I haven't visited our blog recently..but its new "face" is gggreat! *smiles*

If anyone is interested in participating
in the planning of Women's month events.....
See below.
Ciao,
Tara

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WOMEN'S HERSTORY MONTH 2004 INTEREST MEETING!
Because you can never start planning too soon!
Come One, Come All: All women, womyn, girls, chicks, grrls, ladies, feminists, butches, brainy babes, and fierce femmes! Learn what Women's Herstory is all about, and see how you can directly influence what will go on this year. Whether you want to be on the committee or are part of a group who'd like be involved, you're totally welcome here.

THURSDAY October 23rd from 5:00-6:30 in Room 909 of the Kimmel Center.

Why? Because it's about time for a new revolution!

questions? contact sarah abdallah - sarah.abdallah@nyu.edu

2003-10-21T17:23:00.000-07:00

Senate Passes Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Important to note: John Edwards and Tom Daschle voted for the ban. To read the NY Times article, copy this link http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/politics/21CND-ABOR.html?ex=1067776337&ei=1&en=44ef446ecbdd40db

2003-10-20T17:22:00.000-07:00

This is a really interesting article about the non-medical implications of breast implants:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/weekinreview/19KOLA.html

2003-10-18T14:40:00.000-07:00

Tuesday October 28th @ 8pm in Kimmel 914
Why You Should March for Freedom of Choice!
Listen to Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women and Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America speak alongside students about why being actively pro-choice matters today and how to make your voices heard.
Cosponsored by Voices for Choice and NOW-NYU.
NYU or Gov't Issued ID necessary for entrance.

2003-10-18T14:37:00.000-07:00

The Vatican, which has previously denounced such words as "gender" for being anti-Catholic, has recently come out with the statement that condoms do not prevent transmission of the AIDS virus. Regardless of their flawed scientific logic and the fact the Roman Catholic Church does not believe in using any artificial menas of contraceptives, the Vatican has created quite a stir and a controversy. This mixing of religion and science is dangerous in that it is providing severe misrepresentations of scientific facts to vulnerable communities. There is no cure for AIDS, but there are preventative measures. It is unfortunate that the Vatican would undermine using condoms because they are one of the few hopes in reducing transmission of AIDS and saving lives.

2003-10-15T19:02:00.000-07:00

2003-10-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

Is the Kobe Bryant trial O.J./Mike Tyson cont'd? Op-ed hypothesizing that male professional athletes can get away with rape, domestic abuse and murder because of all the corporate backing and sponsorships in professional sports. Certainly a defendable argument.

I haven't seen anything around about how atrocious it was that Kobe Bryant's accuser's photograph was posted on the Internet. That makes me really upset.

2003-10-10T17:28:00.000-07:00

This is a good background article on same-sex marriage. It says the fight for equality is gaining momentum, but doesn't really outline how. It has a good overview of the issue though.

2003-10-10T16:49:00.000-07:00

Village voice columnist writing in defense of sluts. Yawn.

2003-10-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

We're having a teach-in about the Rape Crisis hotline on October 15th during the NOW-NYU meeting. The meeting is at 7:00 p.m. in Kimmel 912.

Also, we will talk about flyering outside donation sites on the NYU campus about the discriminatory nature of blood donation guidelines against gay men and how they violate NYU's Non-Discrimination policy.

2003-10-10T13:23:00.000-07:00

So last Saturday, October 4th, there was a meeting of the Young Feminist Network up at Hunter College. There were presentations by The Street Harassment Project and representatives from NOW-NYU about our work on getting the former Rape Crisis Hotline, now known as On-Call Support Services, updated with the help of SAPES staff. We also had a really interesting consciousness raising session at the end, talking about ways in which negative or physically threatening interactions with men have altered the way we relate to men in our daily lives.

2003-10-06T17:00:00.000-07:00

Reminder
What Everybody Needs to Know about Emergency Contraception! Tues Oct 7 @ 7pm Kimmel Room 912

2003-10-03T19:45:00.000-07:00

Apparently daughters are bad for a marriage?

2003-10-03T19:33:00.000-07:00

I read a really interesting analysis about the 'partial birth' abortion ban and why this author thinks its due to a failure on the part of pro-choice activists.

As much as I want to think the political and ideological forces in this country are more insidious than the left is unorganized, I think this author has a point - at least when I read this article with Alinskyism in mind. Saul Alinsky (who I'm taking a course on) was a professional organizer who, among other things, believed that the way to make political gains is to pick a specific, attainable goal, rather than a pluralistic approach.

The thing about women's rights, especially reproductive rights, is that activism approaches it so pluralistically. Maybe it shouldn't be approached that way? Something to think about.

2003-10-03T07:56:00.000-07:00

PATAKI SIGNS EC IN THE ER!
New York hospitals will have to provide emergency contraceptives to rape victims who want them under a new law announced Wednesday by Gov. George Pataki.

An advocacy group had estimated as many as 1,000 rape victims a year did not receive contraceptives because 24 hospitals in the state did not have a policy to provide them.

"This is a tremendous victory for the women of New York state," said Assemblywoman Susan John, D-Rochester, who sponsored the bill along with Sen. Nicholas Spano, R-Yonkers.

Emergency contraception is a high dose of a normal birth-control pill taken soon after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.

2003-10-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

I can't believe they're actually banning some second/third trimester abortions:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congress-Abortion.html
Anyone who knows anything about them agrees that this is the wrong decision and the campaign behind it has been religiously-ideologically misinformed.

2003-10-01T17:01:00.000-07:00

Saturday, October 4th @ 5pm
Mercer Lounge
Vagina Warriors Planning Mtg!!!
Come help plan and organize this year's NYU V-Day production. EVERYONE is welcome! Bring your ideas, your hearts and of course your vagina friendly attitudes~
Questions? Contact your V-Day Queen: cdn208@nyu.edu

2003-09-30T21:20:00.000-07:00

My friend told me about this website that has a list of "10 feminist myths" on it. Don't know what to make of it.

2003-09-29T10:33:00.000-07:00

A recent editorial house edit in "The New York Times" criticized the National Organization for Women for endorsing Carol Mosely Braun, who has a snowball's chance of ever getting the Democratic nomination, let alone becoming president. I personally think it was silly for NOW to endorse Braun rather than someone who might actually *have a chance*, such as Howard Dean. It seems to me like its a waste of NOW's resources to spread the word about a candiate with that 1% or 2% of the population have said they will vote for in the primary.

Anyway, here's the house edit from the "Times":

HEADLINE: NOW's Woman Problem

BODY:
The National Organization for Women has chosen a peculiar way to enhance the clout of women in politics. The group has joined another feminist outpost, the National Women's Political Caucus, in endorsing Carol Moseley Braun, the former senator from Illinois and ambassador to New Zealand, for president of the United States.

No question Ms. Braun has a strong record on women's rights issues that are a priority for NOW, like pay equity and reproductive choice. As the first black woman ever to be elected to the Senate, she has already secured a place in history.

But those pluses notwithstanding, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Ms. Braun's presidential bid is a vanity affair. Her scarcely funded campaign seems less a serious bid for the White House than a personal quest to return to the limelight and redeem a reputation clouded -- unfairly, according to Ms. Braun -- by questions about her ethics and judgment that contributed to her 1998 defeat for a second Senate term.

There is a place in the American political system for symbolic candidacies that advance important principles. But it is hard to see a principle that distinguishes Ms. Braun's candidacy, other than perhaps the right of a tarnished former official to seek the nation's highest office.

By racing to assist Ms. Braun's candidacy, the leaders of NOW showed loyalty to someone with a long relationship with the organization, going back to the unsuccessful struggle to enact the Equal Rights Amendment. But they also trivialized the important role women will play in the coming election, and made themselves look silly to boot.

2003-09-29T10:28:00.000-07:00

Hello Ladies (and Jessie) ! I'm Tara. I wanted to post a rape blog link that I found months ago but it was recently shut down :-( It was quite informative and disturbing.... but in the spirit of it I'm posting an essay instead.
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http://dir.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/03/28/shreve/index.html?pn=1

The conversation:There comes a time in every relationship when I've got to talk about my rape.

By Jenn Shreve
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March 28, 2000 | H oney, we've known each other for a while now. I like you a lot, and I think it's safe to say you feel the same for me. There's something I want to tell you. I've been meaning to for a while, but I've been afraid of how you'll react. But it's been such a beautiful night. The stars were out, and we had such a good time at dinner. Making love to you tonight, I felt so close to you, like I could tell you anything at all. I trust you. So if you don't mind, I'll just be out with it. I was out on a date. The guy seemed nice, but he wasn't. I won't go into details because it's too painful and not necessary, but he raped me.

I'm OK with it now. I've had some therapy. I've moved on. I don't even think about it all that often. It certainly doesn't affect us, just me, but like I said, I'm fine. I'm a survivor. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? I just thought, if we're to grow close to one another, it's important for you to know this thing about me. I hope you won't think I'm needy or fucked in the head or anything like that. Hey, are you OK? You seem distant. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I cannot count the number of times I've had some variation of this conversation. More often than not, it's the beginning of the end. How the listener responds tells me everything about his character and his readiness to take on a person like me. I've been disappointed more often than I care to remember. Some guys immediately distance themselves, not wanting to be supportive of yet another needy victim. Much to my dismay, one boyfriend actually started snoring partway into the big conversation. Others have responded with smothering compassion, choosing to treat me as a weak and broken creature in need of their impressive male strength. "Let me take care of you," they say. Or, "What's his name? I'll kill him, then it'll never bother you again." The sad truth of rape statistics is that they can only measure the event itself. Every two minutes, a woman is raped in the United States. An estimated 68 percent of rape victims know their assailant. More than 670,000 women were the victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault in 1995 and 1996. And so on. These numbers affix mathematical value to a host of similar incidents in an effort to help us conceptualize the severity of an inconceivable problem. But they tell only the beginning of the story. The tragic event recorded by these statistics lasts only minutes or maybe hours, but it changes a woman's life forever. And not just her life, but the life of every person she encounters. It's what happens after these 670,000-plus rapes in 1995 and 1996 that concerns us here -- how these rapes play out in the context of relationships. Honey, I've been raped and I'm fine. Honey, I've been raped and if you act nonchalant now I'll fucking kill you with my bare hands. Honey, I've been raped, but I'm OK now; don't you worry. Honey, I've been raped and that's why I tend to compose my grocery and to-do lists every time we're in bed, because if I think about sex, I think about him. Honey, I've been raped and I want you to tie me up because I'm that screwed up. Honey, I've been raped and I wish neither of us ever had to deal with it, but if you want to continue with me, it's your problem now, too.

Many sigh with pain; they've heard it all before and wish to god they weren't hearing it again. Not another one, they think. At first, their sadness seems selfish: What right do they have to feel bad when you're the one who has to live with this for the rest of your life? Yet, who can blame them? Someone has hurt a person they care very much for, and now they, too, are being made to suffer through it. One of the most gorgeous aspects of my current relationship is that this conversation was never necessary. Just after we met, he read an essay of mine that went into some detail about my painful past. In fact, he loved the essay so much, he'd sent a note saying as much. That note led me to ask him out to lunch. That lunch led to our first date. That date has lasted a year and a half and still counting. Knowing that he knew made entering the relationship palpably easier, safer. I already knew he wouldn't disappoint me with his reaction to the news that I'd been through this awful thing. Not only had he already reacted compassionately, but he'd openly expressed admiration for how I'd chosen to deal with it. His mature and wise response was a rare and precious gift.

I am yoked to this thing. It is as much a fact of my existence as my major organ systems or the man and woman who joined to create me. It is woven into my identity, my sexuality, my approach to information and responses to others so intricately that extricating it would be akin to self-lobotomizing. In stripping me of my trust of authority, being sexually violated taught me to question everything -- the birth of my cherished iconoclasm occurred on a shag carpet covered in semen, blood and tears. It's given me an edge, a strength that has helped me overcome lesser crises. It has also given me nightmares and an unhealthy fear of the world that sometimes makes it difficult to even go outside. It's made me want to die; it's made me want to live as an act of vengeance on those who have hurt me. All I can do is talk about it, write about it, express and manipulate it -- or let it sit and stagnate inside of me. It is part of who I am. If you accept me, you accept it. Just as there is no one typical response to hearing that someone you care about has been sexually assaulted, there is no standard reaction for women who are working through the rape itself. For some, it is their first introduction to a series of abusive relationships. Many women walk away from the crime only to develop a steadfast hatred of their bodies and sexuality, often expressed through promiscuity or, conversely, frigidity. Some lose the ability to have an orgasm, or to develop trusting, meaningful relationships with the opposite sex. A few women become activists, speaking out against this cancer in our society; many women never speak of it at all. What always holds true is that a woman who has been raped is a woman whose worldview is forever altered. Her faith in humanity's goodness and her trust in others are damaged, if not completely destroyed. How this all plays out in her romantic relationships is as unpredictable as people themselves. But when a woman who's been raped becomes romantically and sexually involved with a man, or another woman, you can be certain that the rape continues to play out -- whether she brings it up or not. To say it doesn't affect things is to lie. This is why the when, why, where and who of divulging the information is so important. To talk of this event is also an act of trust by a person whose trust has been terribly damaged. It should not be taken lightly.

Everywhere I look I see sex: On television, in films, in short stories, on billboards, in magazine profiles about dominatrixes and Web tycoons, in "sex-positive" feminism, in religious preaching and condemnation, on the Senate floor and in the Oval Office, on "60 Minutes." We talk about sex more than we discuss what's for dinner. Yet here's this thing that has somehow touched the sex lives of almost every person I know, and it's taboo to speak of it. How can this be?

But we don't talk really about sex at all. We talk about what we wish it could be: light, without consequences, fun, undemanding, a theory, a worldview, sexy, disposable.

But sex is messy. Sex is crude. It reaches deep inside us and pushes buttons we weren't aware existed. Sex is painful. Sex is sweet. It is sometimes beautiful. It is always complex. Sex turns us into fools. It turns us into gods.

We should talk about it, but that would mean acknowledging a lot of things we'd rather pretend did not exist.

Bottling up what happened has never been an option for me. I've never been good about keeping my feelings or thoughts under wraps. For one, it causes me undue stress that manifests in dramatic panic attacks. In the case of rape, I've always felt that not talking about it helps reinforce the shame and guilt that tend to arrive shortly after the crime. So I think about it. I write about it. And whenever I sense that I'm growing close to a person, it's not a matter of whether we'll talk about this. It's just a matter of when and how.

College was the worst. Like many women in my position, I lacked the judgment and maturity to pull off the conversation with anything resembling grace or tact. I'd blurt it out in all sorts of situations -- stuck in traffic, during finals week or even in the middle of sex. I was equally indiscriminate about who I told. Boyfriends or one-night stands -- it hardly mattered who was on the receiving end. This was my identity we were talking about. I was a rape survivor, and if you were going to get with me, you had to carry this burden.

This reckless, unlearned behavior led to many disappointing reactions, helping to reinforce the distrust of others that began with my first sexual assault (there has been more than one instance).

Once the conversation ended, the relationship (if there was indeed a relationship involved) would veer in one of several possible directions. Often, I'd grow suddenly and desperately clingy. If the fellow left after this conversation, I reasoned, it wasn't because of the way I'd told him; he was rejecting me because I'd been raped; I was damaged goods; I had been turned into a despicable creature who could never be redeemed.

I wonder now if many men who react badly to this sort of news have been introduced to the idea by a novice such as myself. I wonder if my first ill-conceived attempts to reconcile myself to the event -- and to reconcile the event to someone else -- didn't result in my giving these guys a permanently dim view of women who've been through this.

So many women have been through this that even statistics don't do the numbers justice. You can picture a dozen women, 100 women, even a stadium full -- but 670,000? The magnitude stretches far beyond what can be imagined. Perhaps that is why we're still surprised when it happens to us or to someone we love. The reality stands in rude contrast to abstract, distant figures.

And still the greatest damage to mind and soul occurs after the fact -- in the form of ruined sex lives, emotional distance. It derives from the shame that develops from not talking about it -- or talking about it, only to have the discussion result in rejection, confusion or more hurt.

Honey, like countless thousands of women, I've been raped. This is a sickness of violence by men against women that is destroying our society person by person, relationship by relationship. It is no longer something you can dismiss and say, I am immune to this because I am a man. It has happened to me, hence it has happened to you, and this terrible act continues to hurt all of us.

salon.com
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About the writer
Jenn Shreve writes about media, technology and culture for Salon, Wired, the Industry Standard, the San Francisco Examiner and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, Calif.

2003-09-28T16:35:00.000-07:00

What Everybody Needs to Know About Emergency Contraception (EC)!
On Tuesday Oct. 7th @ 7pm in Kimmel 912, NYU's Voices for Choice will be hosting Jane Bogart, from NYU's Center for Health Promotion and Destiny Lopez, NARAL/NY's Director for the EC Access Campaign. They will debunk the myths surrounding EC, state the medical facts, answer your questions and talk about the advocacy work being done to increase public access to EC. Kimmel is located at 60 Washington Square South. NYU or Govt. ID required

2003-09-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

So in an effort to rally the NYU community for the April 25, 2004 March for Reproductive Freedom, someone decided to pull out the big guns. We're going to be hosting (90% sure) Kim Gandy of National NOW, Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority, and possibly Kate Michelman (sp?) of NARAL on October 29th. This will be an awesome event, so anyone who wants to take part in advertising it, shaping it, whatever, post on the WAG listserve.

2003-09-22T22:42:00.000-07:00

Some girl died from taking RU-486, the abortion pill.
This is really bad news for the reproductive rights movement, especially since there are a lot of pro-lifers that talk about how unsafe it supposedly is in order to outlaw it. Research has shown that the abortion pill is safe to take at home alone but obviously, this is an exception from the norm.

2003-09-22T11:05:00.000-07:00

There will be a March for Choice in Washington, D.C. on April 25. More information about how NYU students will be organizing to go down there is forthcoming...

2003-09-22T10:39:00.000-07:00

Hey, everyone. I started us a blog. Now I'm going to fiddle around and post some stuff on it. You, too, can post stuff on the NYU-WAG blog. I made this an open blog, so anyone can post. Advertise events, post links to websites and news articles, or post your opinion about something going on on campus, in New York City, or in the world.