๐ŸŒฑ The Comstock Act Rising from the Dead

Part II: Old Laws Trap US in Patriarchy

Sam Chavez
Sam Chavez

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Itโ€™s March but it feels like January 279. ๐Ÿ˜… We catch you up on the firehose of news from the techno-fascist Western governments and talk about a man named Comstock. He may have been a mutton-chopped man from the 1890s, but his ghost still haunts our laws and they are being resurrected to hurt women, LGBTQ+, and anyone outside the binary. Read on for more...

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