Texas Abortion Clinics Remain Open For Now | New Male Contraceptive By 2018 | Solid Link Between Teen Pregnancy & Obesity

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Texas Abortion Clinics Remain Open For Now | New Male Contraceptive By 2018 | Solid Link Between Teen Pregnancy & Obesity

Women’s Health News, Abortion & Contraception

1. At the end of its term, the US Supreme Court issued a stay in litigation around the state of Texas’ new laws that would close 10 more women’s health clinics that provide abortion services.

2. Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic in Jackson will remain open, with the US Supreme Court taking no action on a federals appeal ruling that left the clinic open.

3. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed notice of appeal on Wednesday that he will appeal a court ruling that overturned a Kansas law using an abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation.

4. Sources of post-abortion counseling that aren’t connected with right to lifers are hard to find.

5. In Oregon, lawmakers approved a bill that allows women to get birth control prescriptions from a pharmacist instead of a physician.  Read on in AOC Women

'Radical Grace' Tells Stories Of 3 Defiant American Nuns Under The Vatican Gun

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‘Radical Grace’ Tells Stories Of 3 Defiant American Nuns Under The Vatican Gun

This film comes at a major crossroads in the Catholic Church, and the nuns are everything that’s right with the institution. They stand with the marginalized, and won’t be bullied by the hierarchy. I feel a deep connection to the women featured in ‘Radical Grace’. ~ Susan Sarandon, ‘Radical Grace’ Executive Producer

Congo's Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence

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Congo’s Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence

Last week Dr Mukwege described the Congolese army as being mired in a culture of violence and as being ‘completely sick’, so sick that it should be disarmed and replaced with new recruits who have never committed sexual violence or fought for a violent militia, reports The Guardian.

The UN estimates that one-third of the rapes that occur in the eastern part of the country are committed by members of the army. Dr Mukwege’s questioning the wisdom of the international community spending large sums of money to support an army that is the greatest perpetrator of violence against women and sometimes men, too, is timely.

Marilyn Mosby Vogue Interview | New Gallup Data Underscores Sexual Hypocrisy | Women Directors Speak | 80% Of Data About Women Is Missing

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Marilyn Mosby Vogue Interview | New Gallup Data Underscores Sexual Hypocrisy | Women Directors Speak | 80% Of Data About Women Is Missing

Anne is reading …

1. Vogue magazine July profiles Baltimore presecutor Marilyn Mosby

2. New data from Gallup’s Values and Beliefs Survey reminds us that Americans of all genders are sexual hypocrites.

3. In 2012, the United Nations Economic and Social Council set down 52 indicators crucial to measuring gender equality in any country. 80% of Data is missing.

4. Even though women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population, only about 4 percent of movies are directed by women. Bloomberg interviews women directors.

5. . The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education has settled on a new word to describe female self-pleasuring.

Gucci's Alessandro Michele Tells His Creative Director Story To Vogue July 2015

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Vogue magazine’s Hamish Bowles interviews Gucci’s new creative director Alessandro Michele, describing him as ‘a lot like the woman he champions: daring, curiously compelling — and with a streak of mystery and eccentricity’.

“Fashion is about creating emotion—it’s not necessarily rational,” explains new Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri, whose first scheduled hour-long meeting with Michele—at the designer’s apartment—segued into three hours discussing the future of the brand. “I thought, Why should I look for someone else when he can translate the heritage—and when the values of Gucci are in his veins?”

The Gucci design team has recently led a peripatetic life. Ford centered it in London, where he lives, while Giannini moved operations to Florence (birthplace of Guccio Gucci, who founded the company in 1921)—and much of the business side is based in Milan, where the company is in the process of relocating to a Mussolini-era aircraft hangar where Michele will stage his collections. Michele, though, prefers Rome. “There is something about the culture of the fifties and the cinema,” he says of his hometown. “But I also need to travel. I need to go to London. You have everything there—present, past, future, exhibitions, theater. And real eccentricity is still very much alive with the English—the kids in the East End, beautiful English old ladies.” He also loves contemporary Los Angeles dressing (“the way they put things together—it’s not chic, but it’s inspiring”) and New York, where he shops vintage stores and where he will present his 2016 resort collection—“a couture show in a garage,” as he explains. “I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new. When I go to New York and London, I love to see how very brave the young people are—they have no rules. Even the superchic ladies of the past, like Princess Irene Galitzine, had supermodern attitudes. Today they’d all be into street style.”

Tami Williams & Mica Arganaraz are styled by Camilla Nickerson in images by Jamie Hawkesworth

TUSIMAME Song Says 'Stand Up' For African Elephants As New York Crushes A Ton of Ivory

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TUSIMAME Song Says ‘Stand Up’ For African Elephants As New York Crushes A Ton of Ivory

TUSIMAME’ ‘is a powerhouse song about saving Africa’s elephants. It brings together talented artists including South Sudan’s Emmanuel Jal, Tanzania’sVanessa Mdee, Congo’s Syssi Managa and Juliani Kenya. 

RedTracker Women's News | Republicans & Women | Women Leadership Surveys | Birth Rate Reversal

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RedTracker Women’s News | Republicans & Women | Women Leadership Surveys | Birth Rate Reversal

Anne is reading …

1. Who knew that Republicans are losing ground with working mothers?

2. Women who are delaying pregnancy should freeze their eggs by age 35.

3. The share of US births to unmarried mothers dropped in 2014 for the first time in nearly two decades.

4. Two new studies explore the challenges around cultivating more women leaders.

5. Arianna Huffington has signed a new contract.

Read on: RedTracker Women’s News | Republicans & Women | Women Leadership Surveys | Birth Rate Reversal

Terry Richardson Embraces Pussy Riot As Many Supporters Of Feminism Vomit

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Terry Richardson Embraces Pussy Riot As Many Supporters Of Feminism Vomit

Lady Gaga remains Richardson’s buddy and Pharrell Williams complimented Richardson at the recent CFDAs. That’s their right, but it doesn’t change the opinions of large numbers of fashion followers and insiders who find it particularly agregious that Terry Richardson would photograph such principled actors in the human rights drama as members of Pussy Riot and think he would get a pass. Not that he cares. Terry gets some free publicity and that’s all that matters. ~ Anne

Angelina Jolie's Rousing Feminist Speech For Women In South Africa

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Angelina Jolie’s Rousing Feminist Speech For Women In South Africa

On June 11, Angelina Jolie spoke in her role as special envoy to UNHCR at the biannual African Union Summit in Johannesburg. The theme of this year’s summit was the ‘Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development’. Read on.

Michelle Obama Takes 'Let Girls Learn' Project To London's Mulberry School

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Michelle Obama Takes ‘Let Girls Learn’ Project To London’s Mulberry School

America’s First Lady Michelle Obama was greeted like a true rock star when she visited London’s Mulberry School to promote her joint $200 million US/UK partnership in support of girls’ education. Launched in March, the ‘Let Girls Learn’ initiative will support teacher training, girls’ leadership camps and other community-based global projects that promote the advancement of girls.

The Mulberry School is in ‘an area of high deprivation, writes the BBC. Most students are from the Bangladeshi community and use English as a second language. Read on in Sensual Rebel

Frida Kahlo's Nature Obsession Thrives At New York Botanical Garden

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Frida Kahlo’s Nature Obsession Thrives At New York Botanical Garden

A blockbuster exhibit honoring Frida Kahlo has opened at the New York Botanical Gardens, her first solo appearance in New York in a decade. FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life has a unique focus on Kahlo’s relationship with nature in her native country of Mexico. From her garden and home decor and the complex use of nature in the artist’s art, this New York Botanical Exhibit is the first to focus exclusively on Kahlo’s intense interest in the botanical world and will close on Nov. 1, 2015.

Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

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Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

Caitlyn Jenner debuts her true self on the July cover of Vanity Fair, debuting her sexy femme self in a photo shoot at her Malibu home, lensed by Annie Leibovitz.

Pulitzer Prize–winning contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, who was given unfettered access to Jenner and her family, chronicles the tensions, traumas, and courage that shaped Caitlyn into the woman you see today, formerly known as Bruce.

Jenner speaks movingly about her journey, telling Bissinger, “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’ ”

Stand #WithStrongGirls Because Poverty Is Sexist

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Join the campaign, stand with over 6 million strong girls supporters everywhere: http://one.org. 

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We’ve joined forces with 9 of Africa’s most talented artists to create a new anthem that celebrates the power of girls and women everywhere.

This song is a call to action for you to put pressure on your leader to empower girls and women in the poorest countries, so that they can lift their own communities out of poverty.

‘Strong Girl’ features vocalists Waje (Nigeria), Victoria Kimani (Kenya), Vanessa Mdee (Tanzania), Arielle T (Gabon), Gabriela (Mozambique), Yemi Alade (Nigeria), Selmor Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), Judith Sephuma (South Africa), new talent Blessing Nwafor (South Africa) and the video stars Omotola Jalade Ekeinde (Nigeria). 


Melissa Benoit's 'Supergirl' CBS Pilot Leaked

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The pilot episode of CBS’s new ‘Supergirl’ has been leaked online. Starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers, aka Kara Zor-El, ‘Supergirl’ will be CBS’ biggest new show, writes Forbes.

Benoist is also joined by Mehcad Brooks, Calista Flockhart, David Harewood, Chyler Leigh and Laura Benanti. Flockhart, who came to fame as Ally McBeal and is married to Harrison Ford, plays Kara’s boss Cat Grant, who in the trailer is a ‘Devil Wears Prada’ vision of Anna Wintour with more sex appeal. Cat Grant is a self-made media magnate, who started her career as a reporter and has now built her company CatCo into a global powerhouse. 

Downloiads aren’t going as fast as expected, writes Business Insider. Leaked late Thursday night, it’s estimated that 250,000 downloads will be done by Sunday noon. In 2014, HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ had the dubious honor of being TV’s most pirated TV show with 48.4 million downloads.

Writing for io9, Rob Bricken gives an in-depth, positive review of ‘Supergirl’.

Jane Fonda Is Never At A Loss For Words in W Magazine & In Cannes

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Jane Fonda Says Being A Fashion Icon Is A ‘Hoot’ In W Magazine June 2015

Jane Fonda delivers spectacular images and an in-depth interview with Lynn Hirschberg in the June issue of W Magazine. This is not the only place Jane is talking. 

AOC wrote last night that Jane Fonda was one of two recipients of the first-ever Women in Motion awards,presented in Cannes by  Kering CEO François-HenriPinault. Discrimination against women by the film industry is a major, front burner topic of conversation in Cannes this season. 

Producer Megan Ellison was the other Women in Motion recepient and she delivered terse words to white men in the audience, for which she received s rousing ovation. Never one to be shy with words, Jane Fonda also gave a spirited response about the film industry’s gender gap. 

‘The fact is that most film directors are men, white men. Most major roles are male roles and (it’s) the reason that I’m excited about this award,’ she said. ‘Women have to become part of the very heart of movie making.’

Fonda Stops The Set For Breastpumping

Fonda is currently starring in the Netflix series ‘Grace and Frankie’, playing with Lily Tomlin as two women whose husbands — the couples being long-time friends —  fall in love with each other.  A nice story about Fonda walking her talk in the workplace came to light yesterday when actor June Diane Raphael, breastfeeding her newborn son, joined the comic series. Raphael was late to the series’ first table read, because she was busy pumping reports Huff Po.

It’s very hard in the workplace to get time from your employers to pump and to do it in a sanitary and safe environment, so I found on set that Jane was really an ally for me in terms of getting what I needed — I needed to stop working every three hours and pump breastmilk,” Raphael said. “And that was a women’s issue, that was a health issue, that was an issue for many reasons. So having her, this iconic activist, in my corner and being one of my bosses was incredible and really helpful.

Afghan Rapper Sonita Alizadeh Fights Against Child Brides From Wasatch Academy Utah

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Afghan Rapper Sonita Alizadeh Fights Against Child Brides From Wasatch Academy Utah

Sonita Alizadeh is a young Afghan woman who had the audacity to resist being married off at age 15. Alizadeh’s family was forced to move to Iran when she was eight years old. As an undocumented Afghan, she was not entitled to be educated in Iran, leaving her to work as a janitor at a charity that supported Afghan children in her situation. We tell her incredible story in Sensual Rebel, but Sonita’s famous rap must be front page news.

Sonita … brides for sale