The political right’s current strategy for fighting against LGBTQ+ equality is to frame discussions about sexuality and gender in school as an infringement on parents’ rights.
Conservative rhetoric about ‘parent rights’ that marginalizes LGBTQ+ positive sex education erases the complexity of parent identities and denies possibilities for richer school experiences.
Criminalization does increase the risk of physical harm. But that is basically a consumer protection argument: It’s not safe enough. The fact is that whether anyone ever climbed on an abortion table or not, the message of criminalization to all people who can get pregnant is: You don’t have dominion over your own body, you are always vulnerable, always in danger of being surveilled. You are vulnerable not only because the law makes behavior a crime and you can be punished for committing a crime.
From the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s collection of some 20,000 Israeli works, curator Dalit Matatyahu chose just over 120 to tell the story of Israeli art in a unique way