Dear Friend and Reader,
AMIDST THE POST-ELECTION OUTRAGE over Proposition 8 in California and decisions to discriminate against the LGBT community in Florida, Arizona and Arkansas, we neglected to mention the reproductive rights wins in South Dakota, Colorado and California: South Dakota struck down a state-wide abortion ban; Colorado refused to define a fertilized egg as a “person”; and California said “thanks, but no thanks” to both requiring parental notification for underage girls seeking abortions andВ to a 48-hour waiting period before the procedure.
The US is sticking together, with a unified decision to let women choose to have children.
I discovered Jean Jacques Gaudel’s website over the summer and was completely sucked in by his vibrant, surrealist paintings, his sculptures, book binding series and photographs. I don’t know much about him, other than he lives in Birmingham, Alabama and used to be an engineer, but I hope to one day have the opportunity to meet him and tell you more.