Quick Hit: Awesome Internship Opportunity at the Planned Parenthood of Charlottesville

Hey ShoutOut! readers! The Planned Parenthood of Charlottesville, VA is offering a fantastic internship opportunity from this March to October. The internship is their “Civic Engagement Internship” (click the link for all of the information) and is a great chance to build your resume and help out an amazing women’s rights organization. In the wake of […]

At Least Mitt Romney is Consistent About His Dedication to Flip Flopping

Given that Mitt Romney appears to be the current front runner in the Republican nomination (why can’t it be Gingrich?! He wants us to have a moon base, people), I wanted to take a look at his ever-changing views on abortion. As soon as you type “Mitt Romney abortion” into Google, Google will suggest you […]

Understanding the Surge of Anti-Choice Bills in Virginia

Yesterday the Virginia State Senate passed an invasive bill which would require people seeking abortions in Virginia to first have an ultrasound. Although women would not be forced to view their ultrasound (which some states do require), they would be encouraged to do so, and it would put an unnecessary fiscal and emotional burden on women […]

Sunday Links Round-Up!

At ShoutOut! we’re introducing a new Sunday feature where our bloggers recommend our readers links to feminist and social justice blogs and stories that have interested/pissed us off/inspired us etc. this week. This week esenzyme recommends: She Writes, which is a website dedicated to helping women around the globe connect with other women writers and […]

Bitchin’ Table: Rick Santorum, Victim of Heterophobia

Welcome back to the Bitchin’ Table, your Friday feature where two ShoutOut! bloggers bitch and moan and shriek, all favorite feminist pastimes. This week aliasmitch and Katie O. discuss poor oppressed straight, white man Rick Santorum, his plight of persecution by the gays, how sad it makes him when people think he’s racist (jeez, he meant […]

Quick Hit: Amy Andre on “Bisexual Health Disparities” Tonight!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick reminder that Amy Andre will be speaking at JMU tonight on bisexual health disparities as a feminist issue. The event is in Miller 1101 at 7 p.m. and it’s going to be fantastic. Here’s some more information about Andre and the talk tonight: Because most people who […]

Abortion is More than a Single Issue

Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the U.S. NARAL is calling today Blog for Choice day to highlight why, 39 years later, we are still fighting for full legal abortion in this country. So today I wanted to blog about a common misconception […]

An Open Letter from the New Co-Editors

Welcome back, ShoutOut readers! For older readers, thank you for joining us for another semester of fighting the patriarchy at JMU. For any new readers, thank you for joining our community. You may have seen recent tension on our blog between bloggers, and so we have entered a phase of community building, both within the […]

Why We Need Choice

This is a joint post from femistorian and Katie O. After a successful protest against the Genocide Awareness Project that was unfortunately on our campus Wednesday and Thursday of last week, we were disheartened to see a post supportive of GAP on the feminist blog we contribute to. As feminists and women’s studies minors, we […]

Don’t Let Virginia Women get TRAPped in Red Tape.

The past few years have been pretty big for anti-choice legislation and activism, from “personhood” bills to TRAP laws and the major attacks on Planned Parenthood last year during the debates over the budget and government shutdown. All of these attacks on choice are incredibly dangerous and challenge women’s bodily agency and access to important […]

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