day EIGHT HUNDRED and SIX

Title X

The New York Times is the newspaper for me.

That is what they tell me.

As a feminist woman, this is where I can see myself represented.

And they are not wrong.

They publish Roxane Gay, and Lindy West and Michelle Goldberg.

They talk about toxic masculinity and the patriarchy in the editorial pages.

The New York Times is the newspaper for me.

So when the war against Planned Parenthood is launched

by this administration,

it is in the pages of the New York Times that I can read coverage.

Fair, equal, coverage.

Because as they tell me:

The Truth is Now More Important Than Ever

So as I read about the defunding of Title X

a federal funded family planning program that serves four million low income women

defunded because

they also provide abortions.

The whole thing a move to end Planned Parenthood.

I try not to notice that this article is buried deep within the pages

of this paper,

far deeper than

the one on the front page about Jeffery Epstein’s and his connection to the Trump family

as well as his affinity for young girls

or billionaire Robert Kraft, Trump’s friend and donor, caught up in a sex-trafficking scandal,

And I think to myself,

yes, the truth is more important than ever

and the truth is

stories about women’s destruction, humiliation, assault and degradation

will always be more important

than stories about women’s health and survival.

--Ally Malinenko