This Week's Friendly Reminder

Can't bring this up enough. The link on this sticker is here. 

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Ive posted this before. It's easy to forget how fickle our access has become. After a weekend when the TikTok ban was forgotten, let's remind people of this.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

There is help for women (for now). Click here for vital information.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Women need your help more than ever. Visit sites like this and help.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

I haven't been photographing much this month, so I'm stealing this picture from Jennifer Martelli of a craft she bought at the Oddball Festival yesterday.

American Haiku: Issue One...Abort!

When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down. 

American Haiku: Issue One...Abort!

Voters choose to...choose?

Why women voters so neurotic?

You win this time, Democracy...

 

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Found this on my way to Stone Soup last Wednesday. Reproductive rights are going to be under attack for my lifetime and beyond. Click this link to prepare yourself for any eventually.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

This one comes courtesy of a car I spotted in Brookline. This one's worth posting in light of last week's victory. It's one battle won, but it's not the war.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

After what happened in Wyoming, I can't post the sticker too much.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Yesterday would have been the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Reproductive rights are still in greater danger than ever. Share information like this as often and as widely as you can.

Shadow Language

Welcome back Mark Blickley and photographer Kellie Scott-Reed. Turning up the heat on an already hot summer day over at Oddball Magazine. 

More of the A Word

Susan Tepper rejoins us today and so does Bonnie Matthews Brock. We appreciate their contributions to the political side of our journal. We appreciate those of you who take to time to read their work. Check them out now at Oddball Magazine. 

A Moment of Comics

With the faux outrage over the current "Popeye" comic strip being drawn by a "woke" artist, here are the strips about abortion that got then-artist Bobby London fired off the strip in 1992. The storyline was all about a hilarious misunderstanding over Olive Oil wanting to return a dangerous Bluto doll. You can read more about it here and elsewhere. It's all been done before, people. No go back to bed.

Watch Out for Those Rights

Poet Roméo Desmarais III returns with a timely piece to go with Lauren Shear's photography. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine today.

This Week’s Friendly Reminder

Another sticker in Jamaica Plain to replace the ones torn down. Visit this site.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Found on July 4 in South Station. Stay vigilant, friends. Keep fighting.

How Appropriate to Post on Sunday

Six of my Jesus Tanka have been published at the Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Thanks to Editor and Publisher Strider Marcus Jones for appreciating what I do.

What Else Can We Do But React?

Poet Jessica Cohn and photographer Karen A. Szklany kick off another important Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. 

To Say...

Jason Wright's post-July Fourth Jagged Thought is up now at Oddball Magazine.