Abortion is still legal in some US states, despite the Dobbs decision.

Hey, everyone, it’s a horrible day here in the United States with Roe and Casey being overturned. But rather than lose hope, let’s keep the fight going because there’s a lot of incredible work being done on the ground. 

Here are some places you can donate to, and some further info:

Independent Clinics: Abortion Care Network Abortion Funds:  National Network of Abortion Funds, funds by State, Midwest Access Coalition

Information on Medication Abortions (abortion pills)

State by State trigger laws map with Roe being overturned 

RewireNews  (legislative tracker) and the excellent Boom! Lawyered podcast for repro rights news and analysis

New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support by Robin Marty. Also! Consider requesting your local public library for this book if they don’t have it in their catalogue yet. 

I'm not a small woman. In fact, I'm an absurdly average woman in terms of size. I'm just under 5'5. I'm in the middle of the "healthy" BMI range. I wear a size medium in most clothes. I wear a size 8 shoe. I'm the mediumest woman in the world.

And everything is too fucking big for me.

I test drive a new car. I love it... except that everything is slightly too big. The indicators are just a few millimeters beyond a comfortable resting positions for my hands. The steering wheel is slightly too high - I can't quite see the speedometer behind it. If I adjust my chair high enough to see the speedometer, then I can't reach the pedals. The steering column isn't adjustable. I have this problem in a lot of cars.

I have a desk. I've always found the desk a little uncomfortable, but I blamed it on the cheap thirdhand office chairs I usually buy. So I buy a new office chair. It's very comfortable... and it made me realize that the desk itself is too tall. If the chair is high enough to keep my shoulders and elbows in a comfortable position, then my heels don't touch the ground.

I go hunting for height-adjustable desks. I've always wanted a sit-to-stand desk anyway. Most of them don't go significantly lower than the desk I have. The ones that do are more expensive.

My hand aches when I hold my phone. I specifically bought this phone because it was smaller than the full-size model. They don't even make phones this small anymore. I have a google pixel 3a. The pixel 9a is the same size as the 3 XL. What was "XL" in 2018 is just the size phones are now. My hand hurts.

Ariana Papademetropoulos (Greek-American, b. 1990)

Curse of the Boys with Butterfly Tattoos, 2020

Ariana Papademetropoulos (Greek-American, b. 1990)

Death of a Mermaid, 2020

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.

All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.

More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.

Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.

“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”

West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.

“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.

“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.

Why the fuck are we confused? They should make it clear as fucking day who they are. Six mfs rolling up on her and initiating immediate aggression. The fuck do you mean even her lawyer doesn't know where she is? Then it's a fucking kidnapping