Freedom means being able to chose how to celebrate the 4th of July. Flags, beer, hot dogs, fireworks, stay home and sleep….whatever you want. It also means being able to chose whom you want to marry. Happy Fourth of July everyone! Read a slightly longer post here, on my Forbes Column.
What a busy week! Something for (almost) everyone. Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Gay Marriage Rights, Immigration Rights and Abortion Rights. It’s hard to know what to focus on as a cartoonist. I could cartoon all of them, but actually I can’t. So I chose to draw about the amazing filibuster by Senator Wendy Davis and her colleagues (and the crowd!) in Texas, which I found fascinating. Sadly, it won’t stick: Governor Rick Perry has scheduled another session and the bill to virtually end a woman’s right to chose in Texas will pass. Here is my take on my column on Forbes.com–with a slightly different cartoon.
I really was happy when I read the news the other day that NASA’s new astronaut recruits are half women. Four men, four women. Then–as I often do–I questioned my enthusiasm. Does this mean that being an astronaut means lower pay and status because the Shuttle Program is no more? Is that why more women are now in the field? I hope that’s not the case, as it has been in other areas. But regardless, it’s good news that more women are in engineering and science. Like these little girls, I’m optimistic. Here is my Forbes piece on this topic.
I did a piece about sexual abuse in the military, and you can read it here on my Forbes.com column.
Women Deliver is an amazing non-profit organization that is all about helping women and girls. They are having their third conference in Malaysia this year and I was invited to curate an exhibit and book of international cartoons about women’s rights. Here is a link to a slide show of the cartoons and my essay about them and the conference.
Yesterday, the top news in the morning was Angelina Jolie’s breast surgery. I wrote about it on my Forbes column. My thoughts were inspired in part by a book I read several years ago, Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. In the book, she explores the choice women have of breast prothesis. Written in the 1980s, Lorde was one of the first feminists to write about how breast prothesis “seems like a cover-up in a society where women are solely judged on their looks.” (Wikipedia)
