family planning

The blogs will never stop!

• Feministe points us to a New York Times piece on the 7 billion-person milestone and the importance of birth control...
• ...and the Crunk Feminist Collective reminds us that the majority of consumption is done by the western world, not by "brown people" in population-dense countries.
• The XX factor looks at a NY Times article about the "decline" of Southern manners that completely glosses over the whole aspect of race.
• Racialicious tackles the problematic subject matter in Craig Thompson's new graphic novel Habibi.
• Check out Muslimah Media Watch's new home at the Patheos blogs.
• Transgriot looks at Barack Obama's admirable work on transgender issues—and celebrates 3 million hits!
• Choices takes some time to look at how the Mississippi personhood would affect everyone if voted in next Tuesday.

Let us know what you think or what you've been reading in the comments down below!