Sarah Moglia is doing a National Abortion Access Bowl-a-thon. (I like typing -a- things.) Her team is Coup de Twat. You can donate RIGHT HERE.
She says you don’t have to be as fancy as she is to support abortion access, so do it!
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I’m very troubled by the name “coup de twa* because I truly find that word offensive, claims of “reclaiming” notwithstanding. It already leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and really no inclination to donate to what is otherwise a highly admirable action. It’s been used far too often to denigrate women.
It’s really too bad they had to use that name, however clever it may seem.
I see it as not so much reclaiming as just using the words ourselves for our own genitalia. I don’t think that denigrates women. It’s when it’s used as an epithet [yes, faction of UKanians who insist this is a whole separate different meaning, including an epithet applied to men] that it denigrates women.
Still, the distinction is way too subtle for way too many people, so I get what you mean.