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Paid Parental Leave in the United States: Still Optional, Still Inequitable, Still Failing Families

In the United States, having a child is treated less like a social responsibility and more like a personal inconvenience. If you are lucky, your employer offers paid parental leave. If you are unlucky, you return to work days or weeks after giving birth, healing from surgery, learning how to keep a newborn alive, and pretending that exhaustion is not swallowing you whole. This is not a secret.…

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Tomorrow's episode of the Sexy Politico podcast will be exciting. I spoke with Lisa Jara about menstruation, period poverty, and cyclical living. Check it out on all podcasting platforms. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnf9W_wMdmV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The latest episode of the Sexy Politico podcast is live on YouTube now. Check out our interview with @themakeuphistorian Sara Long as we discuss historical makeup politics and being a woman in academia. The podcast will be live on podcasting platforms tomorrow. #women #politics #academia https://www.instagram.com/p/ClgTCWauwKM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Check out this week’s episode of Millenials Talk Politics @millennialstalkpolitics Davin was a great interviewer and we had a great discussion. Check it out on all podcasting apps. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQOf7rQj8Cc/?utm_medium=tumblr

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New Post has been published on https://thesexypolitico.com/2020/05/26/book-review-unmentionable/

Book Review Unmentionable

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners is a 2016 work by Therese O’Neil. O’Neil wrote this book as a historical guide, with a narrator acting as the reader’s guide. The narrator guides a modern woman, the reader, in different aspects of a Victorian lady’s life. The book’s opinion, unsurprisingly shows that historical misconceptions and the movies have made women believe that the Victorian Era was beautiful and glamorous. While in reality, it sucked to be a woman in the Victorian Era.

Therese O’Neal wrote Unmentionable a conversational tone. The narrator reminds me of my best friend telling me that I look fat in my favourite dress and then helping me pick out a new one. While I don’t always like hearing it, I’m grateful that she’s honest. The narrator sets the tone in the introduction, called “Hello Slattern.”

The fist chapter is about getting dressed. You will need a corset, no matter your station in life. The second is about pooing. It’s a pain in the butt to poo in the Victorian Era. The third is about bathing. It is cold, and you don’t do it often. All of the chapters are about individual parts of living in the Victorian Era that you wonder about, and realize that I am grateful to be a woman in the 21st century with hot running water in my home.

This book also includes pictures from the time and some mild nudity, so if that bothers you this may not be the book for you. Unmentionable is a frank book about sex, menstruation, childbirth, dressing and bathing. I enjoyed every minute of reading it. It was a great read while bathing.

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Today is Memorial Day, and being nine months pregnant and having difficulties at the end this will be the first time in a while where I will probably do nothing for Memorial Day. It is strange to me that people think of Memorial Day as a day to celebrate or party. Growing up Memorial Day […]

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New Post has been published on https://thesexypolitico.com/2020/05/22/the-second-stimulus-check/

The Second Stimulus Check

My family received our first stimulus check last month. Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced “The Heroes Act” last Tuesday, which includes another $1200 dollar stimulus check per individual. This bill passed the House on Friday the 15th of May and arrived in the Senate on the 20th. The likelihood of this bill passing the Senate is slim.

The first stimulus bill, “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” was introduced, passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and signed by President Trump in a week. There was a national mandate for relief by the federal government. Lawmakers did not want to seem ineffective during a crisis. Remember every member of the House of Representatives and one third to the Senate are up for reelection this year, and many of their primaries were pushed into the spring and summer by their state governors.

There is no mandate for a second stimulus check. It would be amazing to see the federal government take the unemployment problem seriously, and encourage people to stay home until the curve is down in all fifty states, but that is not the case. Many states are beginning to reopen, and many members of Congress want people to be incentivized to go back to work. Majority Leader McConnell is afraid of a rising national deficit. It seems unlikely for another stimulus check to reach American bank accounts without a mandate by the voters, or urged by the President.

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New Post has been published on https://thesexypolitico.com/2020/05/20/a-third-party-candidate-in-2020/

A Third-Party Candidate in 2020

One of the scariest thoughts, for Democrats, in the 2020 election, is for Bernie Sanders to run as a third-party candidate The second scariest thought is for anyone appealing to run as a third-party candidate.

In the 2020 Election, for a Democratic candidate to win there needs to only be one option. It is very difficult to unseat a sitting president especially if there are boots on the ground anywhere in the world. President Clinton was the last president to do so, but the First Gulf War was over by the election.

What would a liberal third party candidate do in this election? The third party candidate could fire up the far left wing of the Democratic Party. Especially the members of the party that have issues with former Vice President Joe Biden being a moderate. These are also the members of the party that would most likely have a negative reaction to the Tara Reade scandal. These voters would most likely stay home on Election Day rather than voting for Biden.

A third party candidate would give these voters someone to rally around and campaign for. This could push liberal moderates away from Joe Biden, giving the election to President Trump.

A third party conservative candidate will not hurt President Trump as much. While he may loose some voters, the power of the presidency and his social media stature would make up for anything that a true conservative would say against the president. As president Donald Trump controls the message of the Republican Party, and most of the fundraising mechanisms funnel through him.

A Democrat would be losing money and votes from a liberal third-party candidate. A third-party candidate would most likely cost the Democrats the White House. From my research, no third-party candidate is on the ballot in all fifty states. That can change as time goes on. The Demoocrats need to prepare.

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