Newsday Tuesday!

Time for the another round of good news and bad news in the world of feminism. Lets start with the good stuff first:

Good: Truth is finally in the Capitol! The bust of feminist Sojourner Truth was unveiled today in a ceremony this morning at the U.S. Capitol. In a movement begun ten years ago by the National Congress of Black Women, Ms. Truth's bust, the first of an African American woman, was unveiled to a large crowd that included First Lady Michelle Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Secretary Hillary Clinton.

Feminists of Iceland are celebrating the election of Johanna Sigurdardottir, the first female and openly gay Prime Minister in the nation's history. Whoop, whoop!

Snaps and claps to California Attorney General Jerry Brown for his letter to the California state Supreme Court stating that anti-affirmative action Proposition 209, amending the state constitution in 1996, is unconstitutional! Organized by California businessman Ward Connerly as the "California Civil Rights Initiative," Prop 209 has ended affirmative action policies in public employment, education, contracting, and gutted sex discrimination law. After achieving similar success in Michigan, Washington and Nebraska, Connerly was unable to garner enough signatures for anti-affirmative action measures in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona, and was DEFEATED in Colorado in 2008!

And just to ruin the party a little, here is some bad news:

Bad: As a Dominican woman, I am saddened (albeit not surprised) to hear of the the Dominican Republic's legislature's recent approval to ban all abortion without exception for the woman's health, rape or incest. Not bad enough? The DR Congress is also considering imprisoning women seeking abortions or attempting to abort a fetus.