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View More NewsSouth Dakota can’t stop a website from telling women of that state about abortion pills and where to get them—at least not yet. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its new anti-abortion advertising law against Mayday Health. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. Mayday Health runs a website with information about where people can obtain abortion pills, including pills prescribed remotely and mailed to women in states—like South Dakota—where abortion is banned. Notably, Mayday doesn’t provide abortion pill prescriptions…
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Robin Dembroff’s highly anticipated Oxford University Press book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality, hit shelves in May with impressive endorsements. According to the philosopher Jason Stanley,Real Men on Top is a stunning work of philosophy that explains why insights from gender studies are so feared by authoritarian regimes. In plain language, Dembroff illuminates gender as the internal logic of our current fascist moment—how it divides us from each other and enriches the wealthy few.Other philosophers call the book “brilliant,” “rigorous,” and “profound and necessary.” Dembroff’s own website reports that Real Men on Top has been “acclaimed…
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