Women’s Rights

03 Mar 2023

A Taco Competition Supporting Women’s Rights: My Taco, My Choice

This coming Taco Tuesday, March 7th, there will be a chef taco competition featuring up to 12 women chefs from the Bay Area at Merkado in SOMA. The event is called “My Taco, My Choice” and it will benefit The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. Competing chefs will create

Katy Atchison 0
03 May 2022

Where You Can Protest For Reproductive Rights In San Francisco Today

As a result of the pending reversal of Roe V. Wade, people from all over the country are taking to the street and demanding a woman’s right to choose remain uninhibited by government overreach. Today, Tuesday May 3rd, Women’s Rights activists are going to be rallying at the Federal Building

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

BAS Editorial Team 0
22 Mar 2021

NCAA Basketball Still Giving Women Less Reliable COVID Tests Than Men Get

The NCAA “March Madness” basketball tournament had a huge scandal last week when viral social media posts showed that the women’s team facilities were of far lower quality than the men’s facilities. In response, they made a big show of giving the women athletes a far nicer weight room overnight

Joe Kukura- Millionaire in Training 0
19 Jan 2019

Oakland Women’s March Photos: “I Will Stand Up For You”

By Betty Rose Livingston Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters participated in the third annual Women’s March in Oakland Saturday. Part of a national day of action that began following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the mass protest was smaller, yet more diverse, than years previous.

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17 Jan 2019

The Women’s March Is This Saturday In NYC

On Saturday January 19th the 3rd annual Women’s March takes place in NYC. The march was created to, as per their website, provide a safe and accepting platform for supporters of equality to rally and march in the promotion of civil rights for every human being regardless of gender, race,

Joe DeLong - NYC Editor 0
30 Jun 2018

These are the Kinds of Women who get Abortions

Before studying public health, I worked for Planned Parenthood for six years. Six of the best years of my life. And I’ll share something I learned in those six years: You know who has abortions?

Guest Writer 0
10 Apr 2017

4 Ways The GOP is Currently Fucking With Women’s Right to Choose

In the month after Donald Trump was elected, 260,000 Americans donated to Planned Parenthood, 40 times what the organization normal gets in a month. Who gave was also different, with Millennials making up nearly half of donors. Most of those donations came from people who’d never before donated to Planned

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07 Nov 2014

Listen Up! Catcalling Won’t End Overnight

As a man, I didn’t need to see the catcalling video by Hollaback! to know that women are frequent victims of verbal harassed on the street. I’ve seen it. I’ve heard it. To be honest, I had become so numb to the act that I’ve laughed about it. I laughed,

Enrique Grijalva - Mr. Minimum Wage 0