Church was the place I first heard the word feminism, and where I first practiced putting a condom on a banana. So what’s happened to liberal religion?

Written by Trusting Women for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell’s victory over nine-term Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday night may have been a signal that a significant number of Delaware citizens are willing to support candidates who like to preach to Americans on what they should and should not do sexually.

Women are roped into judging each other’s sexual behavior and controlling each other’s lives because we’re led to believe it’s our only realistic source of control.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

By Ezra Winton for Art Threat, your home for political art and cultural policy. Anna Sarkissian and Ameesha Joshi are emerging filmmakers from Montreal, Quebec, currently making a documentary in India "on a shoestring budget" about women boxers called With this Ring. The synopsis from the film’s site: Winning four world titles is not enough [...]

Let me say this one more time: Sarah Palin is not a feminist. In fact, the fabricated term “conservative feminist” is an oxymoron.

Choice, freedom, and morality in the feminist language wars: If “choice” is problematic, then perhaps a better place to start is “freedom.”

Written by Kathleen Reeves for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Sarah Palin is rallying conservative women around the country to unify around her special brand of feminism. But it’s feminism’s cheap knock-off and it doesn’t exactly withstand the test of – well – anything.

Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Nebraska’s recent abortion laws show an intellectual consistency in the anti-choice worldview, one that is fundamentally misogynist.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Iceland’s legislature has recently passed a law banning strip clubs, topless waitress and such. Yet, in the U.S., Michael Steel, the head of the RNC, which likes to call itself the party of family values, spends the party’s money in clubs specializing in bondage. Kinda makes you wanna say, “Huh?!”

At the Women in the World summit last weekend, Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast, kicked off the three-day event with a provocative statement: “Women’s rights are to 21st century what the civil rights movement was to the 20th century.”