Tuesday, November 5, 2019
"Dancers & Dogs" by Kelly Pratt Kreidich and Ian Kreidich
Monday, November 4, 2019
The Doodle Boy
That’s what 9-year-old Joe Whale’s parents thought when they encouraged their son to keep drawing, even though he got into trouble for doodling during class. They sent Joe to an after-school art class and his artistic abilities were quickly noticed by those around him.
In fact, Joe was invited to decorate the dining room of the ‘Number 4’ restaurant in Shrewsbury, England. Now, Joe is known as The Doodle Boy and has his own website, as well as social media pages showing off his awesome art.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Neon dreams
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Missouri is keeping binders full of women’s menstrual cycles.
For rightwing zealots, however, that is one too many.
The Missouri hearing, which concluded on Thursday, has been a master class in gaslighting and misogyny. According to the Missouri department of health and senior services (DHSS), the reason they want to revoke the clinic’s license is because they really, really care about women’s health – it has absolutely nothing to do with controlling women’s bodies!
The DHSS’s case rests on four instances of what it calls “failed abortions” – cases where complications arose and the patient had to return to the clinic for another procedure.
As it turns out, the DHSS is so concerned about women’s health it has been keeping spreadsheets tracking the date of Planned Parenthood patients’ periods, in an attempt to figure out which of them “had undergone failed abortions”.
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Friday, November 1, 2019
Eleven films to watch in November
November by Thomas Hood
No sun — no moon!
No morn — no noon —
No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member —
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds!
—
November!
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