Being Blue at PSU

By JT Thomas Yikes. Just yikes. Between the mass shootings, rising Covid cases, and a Supreme Court that’s gone completely cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs, I think we can all agree that it’s been one hell of a month. While a lot of things are going to absolute shit at the moment, the thing that’s been getting the most attention is, of course, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which toppled Roe v. Wade and ended nearly fifty years of the constitutional right to an abortion along with it. I saw a video recently of a certain Senator getting into an argument with Dr. Khiara Bridges over the use of more gender inclusive terminology in the reproductive rights movement. The crux of the argument was that this Senator believed using inclusive terminology like “birth-giver” to be ridiculous because only women can give birth, despite being told by Dr. Bridges repeatedly that this is not true.  For a sizable chunk of Western history, and the vast majority of specifically American history, s