Lena Dunham Loses Her Clothes for Planned Parenthood
by Charlie Spiering 25 Sep 2014, 1:26 PM PDT
Actress Lena Dunham emailed
supporters a photo of her grinning while wrapped in a towel and holding
contraception pills in her mouth.
Included with the photo was an over 1000 word email
attacking Republican Senate candidates like Cory Gardner, Thom Tillis, and Joni
Ernst.
Full text below:
This is me after I voted in 2012. It was better than my college
graduation and the time I went to the Hershey factory combined! AKA extremely
wonderful. On that same day, my father voted, my 100-year-old great aunt voted
(RIP Doris), Beyonce voted. It made this whole great nation feel wonderfully
small.
Here are the reasons I vote:
1. When you vote, you feel so, so good. And proud. Yes,
proud. You feel a sense of accomplishment because you said this is how the
world should be and I'm not just going to sit around watching reruns of Shark
Tank and eating Hint of Lime Tostitos and complaining to my friend Joyce. You
did the right thing, and you feel joy. You will have the best day just because
you voted. I wore fishnets and a little black dress to vote, then walked around
with a spring in my slinky step. It lasted for days. I can summon it when I'm
blue. It's more effective than exercise or ecstasy or cheesecake (note: I have
never done ecstasy, ok?! I am a law-abiding citizen).
Seriously, if you're not registered to vote, or if you're
not sure (it can be confusing, bureaucracy) stop reading this and get it done.
Nothing I'm going to say in the rest of this thoughtful and heartfelt e-mail I
am writing in my underpants is more important than you registering right now.
Do it.
2. I find it incredibly, deeply satisfying that every single
vote is exactly equal. When practically everything in the world feels deeply
unfair, it's a pleasure to know my vote is valued just exactly the same as your
vote or Ryan Gosling's vote or yes, even Beyonce's vote. If Blue Ivy was old
enough to vote, her vote would be worth just the same. And anyway, the
government probably has special dispensation for Blue Ivy. She's probably
running for president next election on a platform of FABULOUSNESS FOR ALL.
Do not, DO NOT decide that your vote doesn't matter. I don't
care where you live, or what your reasons, your vote matters. You can't
complain about the status quo or about the crazy medieval attacks on women's
health unless you VOTE. And apathy is so 2008.
3. The crazy and depressing truth is that there are people
running for office right now who could actually affect your life. PARTICULARLY
your sex life. PARTICULARLY if you're a woman. Yup.
You might be thinking, how is that even possible? THIS IS
2014! Well, here's how: Colorado's Cory Gardner, who's running for Senate? He's
all about letting your boss tell you what kind of birth control your insurance
should cover. (Even if your boss thinks the answer is none, shut up and go back
to putting the lids on jars you silly girl.) And if Gardner and just five more
of his friends win their races, people who agree will be running the Senate and
the House. By my amateur calculations, that's the whole Congress, which means
they're going to get right down to business on the whole blocking-coverage-of-birth-control
thing, When you can't get access to affordable birth control, suddenly your sex
life is ruled by fear. And that's not fair. So if you are a woman, or you love
a woman, or you've ever met a woman: vote.
4. I vote because the number of backwards, out-of-touch,
downright freaking unbelievably anti-women's heath politicians out there right
now makes my blood boil. Like Thom Tillis in North Carolina, who snuck a bunch
of abortion restrictions into a bill that was supposed to be about motorcycle
safety. YES, MOTORCYCLE SAFETY. And called opposition from people who spoke out
against his weird obsession with making decisions about women's bodies "a
bunch of whining coming from losers." LOSERS! Or Dan Sullivan in Alaska,
running for the Senate, who just outright refuses to reveal whether he supports
the Violence Against Women Act.
And then there's Joni Ernst running in Iowa who has tried to
block women from getting cancer screenings and HIV tests and whatever else they
need at Planned Parenthood health centers; she wants to repeal the ACA
including the birth control benefit that helps millions of women take charge of
their fertility and their lives — oh, and while she's at it just straight up
abolishing the minimum wage. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PROCESS THAT. But rather than
go deep into a rage spiral, I vote. It's healthier, more effective and
infinitely more pleasant.
BTW, even if you don't live in those states, you can help.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund will tell you what to do.
5. Voting is kind of a gateway drug to "getting
involved." And you have to get involved. We need you. "We"
meaning women,
children, mothers, fathers, sisters, dogs. Everyone. There's SO MUCH MORE you
can do to make this whole election thing work for you. If the thought of trying
to figure out exactly how to do more for yourself and your community confounds
you, I feel you bro. Planned Parenthood Action Fund made a thing called the
Actionator that makes it simple as signing up for Tinder. You have no excuse.
And neither do I.
I didn't always vote. And that's embarrassing, more
embarrassing than being naked on TV or being told you look like a "baby
giraffe" when you walk in heels at awards shows. I didn't vote for a lot
of reasons: because I thought our mothers had already handled feminism. Because
I live in New
York City where, I was told, it
was all Democrats anyway. But mostly because I didn't feel my voice mattered.
But then I realized: if we don't vote for ourselves, who will? And by voting
for ourselves, we vote for each other. I know that's a tongue twister but it's
real. So get registered, get involved. Make your own reasons.
Love and hugs,
Lena "Vote-vote-vote-ing Til I Can't Vote No More"
Dunham
P.S. Everything you ever wanted to know about women's health
AND about the upcoming election, you can find at Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund has helped me get informed, take a stand and
feel fairly smart at parties. Which is why this is the organization that makes
my heart sing, and sometimes my mouth too.
Planned Parenthood Action
Fund
Cecile Richards
is the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, was the founder & president for America Votes,
and Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff.
Note:
America Votes
is a national partner with the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund.
Nancy Pelosi’s
deputy chief of staff was Cecile
Richards, and Terri McCullough
is her chief of staff.
Terri McCullough
is Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff,
and married to Howard Wolfson.
Howard Wolfson is
married to Terri McCullough, former New York (NY) mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s adviser, was the
spokesman for the 2009 Michael R.
Bloomberg mayoral campaign, and a partner at the Glover Park Group.
Glover Park
Group is the lobby firm for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Alex Slater was a
managing director at the Glover Park
Group, and a managing director at SKDKnickerbocker.
Audrey Gelman is
a VP at SKDKnickerbocker, an actor
in Girls, and a friend of Lena Dunham.
Lena Dunham is a
friend of Audrey Gelman, and an actor
& creator for Girls.
Allison Williams
is an actor in Girls, and Brian Williams’s daughter.
Brian Williams
is Allison Williams’s father, and a
director at the Robin Hood Foundation.
Emma Bloomberg
was the senior planning officer for the Robin
Hood Foundation, and is the former New
York (NY) mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s
daughter.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Harlem
Children's Zone.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a benefactor for
the Harlem Children's Zone, the New York (NY) mayor, is Emma
Bloomberg’s father, and Howard Wolfson is his adviser.
Howard Wolfson is
Michael R. Bloomberg’s adviser,
married to Terri McCullough, and
was a partner at Glover Park Group.
Glover Park
Group is the lobby firm for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Terri McCullough
is married to Howard Wolfson, and Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff.
Nancy Pelosi’s chief
of staff is Terri McCullough, and Cecile Richards was her deputy chief of
staff.
Cecile Richards
was Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief
of staff, the founder & president for America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and the president of the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund.
America Votes
is a national partner with the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, and a national partner with EMILY's List.
EMILY's List is a
national partner with America Votes,
and a super PAC with Women Vote!
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