A collection of life thoughts

Obviously, I’m not going to write a story that’s just a bunch of straight white dudes though, so I’ve got to figure it out.

In the end, April is a young bi white woman, and while I know a lot of young bi white women who have similar backgrounds, like any character, it’s never going to be a perfect encapsulation of the reality of other people’s experience. She is herself, I know her very well at this point. She’s a weirdo, and so not every bi person is going to see a clear reflection of their experience in her, but I think some will. 

Anish Kapoor, an influential and innovative artist as well a longtime social activist, was named the winner of the 2017 Genesis Prize.

Kapoor, the son of a Baghdadi Jewish mother and Indian father, was tapped Sunday for the so-called Jewish Nobel. He joins Itzhak Perlman, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor-director Michael Douglas as recipients of the $1 million prize.

Sorry for the all caps… feeling passionate today!

This week, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman seeking equal parenting rights after divorcing from her wife. 

The Court said that based on SCOTUS precedent, same-sex couples must be treated the same as different-sex couples with regard to parenting rights, such as in cases where they are determining the rights of non-biological parents. 

The ruling involves a case stemming from artificial insemination. Arizona law assumes the man in a marriage is the father of any child born within 10 months of a marriage. But it doesn’t establish any rights in artificial insemination cases for the non-biological parent of the same sex.

The Arizona Supreme Court could have thrown out the law, but instead extended it to include women in similar circumstances.

Citing the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide, Arizona Chief Justice Scott Bales wrote, “It would be inconsistent with Obergefell to conclude that same-sex couples can legally marry but states can then deny them the same benefits of marriage afforded opposite-sex couples.”