Wow.
Two killed during shootout at a Florida federal corrections facility. The shootout was between six guards and FBI agents who were coming to arrest them. Why? A gunfight broke out this morning in a federal prison here between federal agents and prison guards, as the agents tried to arrest six guards on charges that they [...]
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From Angry Brown Butch: In the wake of growing violence against Trans and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) people, as evidenced by the brutal attack on renowned Singer and Drag Performer-Kevin Aviance, the New York City Police Department and the City of New York have chosen to deny TransJustice’s applications to march and rally on 8th Avenue [...]
...read moreGood question!
And a hell of a lot more constructive than most of the ones abuse survivors hear, no? I hereby promote this comment by Dianne from Jill’s post about Yvette Cade: If I may ask a slightly off topic question to people who have experienced abuse: What, if anything, could those around you (friends, colleagues, family) [...]
...read moreAggressive Measures
MySpace is being sued in the wake of a sexual assault. MySpace’s age verification practices come under attack by the plaintiff’s attorneys. The site requires users to be at least 14 years old, asking for name, date of birth, e-mail address, sex, and country of residence. However, it does not attempt to verify the information, [...]
...read moreA Little Help, Here
In the comments to my post on Alpha Males, jeffliveshere posed the following puzzle: Maybe it’s my lack of imagination, but it’s difficult for me to come up with examples of men in popular culture who are confident-but-not-dominant, and most of the ones I can come up with are, strangely, comedians, like Jon Stewart and [...]
...read moreTeh Surgery
Because I am lazy, I will again rely on the inimitable Jamison Green for a brief synopsis of the available options:
...read moreRipping Off Jill
These are some of the things that bother me: 1) Commenters who appeal to one of us after another of us has banned them. This is like running to Mommy after Daddy puts his foot down (or vice versa). I am not going to undermine the authority of my fellow bloggers over space that belongs [...]
...read moreNet Neutrality
If you’re reading blogs (and look at that, you are), you should be thinking about Net Neutrality. Feministing has a good interview with Joan Blades that lays out the issues in a straight-forward way. Check out Save the Internet for more info. And if you have five minutes, you should contact your Congressperson.
...read moreWell. That’s…Nice?
Iocaste, guest-blogging over at Lawyers, Guns and Money while Scott swans around Paris, has a terrific post up about a recent 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming a lower-court opinion declining to extend trade-dress protection to the Hooters Girls because they’re functional, not symbolic. What that means, essentially, is that they’re the product. Hooters [...]
...read moreThose Never-Ending Mommy Wars
I considered avoiding the Linda Hirshman debacle-in-progress, but what the hell. It goes like this: A while back, Hirshman wrote a piece for The American Prospect in which she argued that working was better for women than staying at home. Now she’s essentially expanded it into a book, and touched on some of the issues [...]
...read moreAnother Amazing Woman
Yvette Cade. After her husband set her on fire in an attempt to kill her, she was left severely scarred. But she still shows up and speaks out. “Women should never feel responsible for a man’s violence,” she said on the [Oprah Winfrey] show. “But they do need to know the warning signs, and they [...]
...read moreWorld Cup Woes?
Save me. Apparently the little ladies are having some trouble weathering the World Cup season, and are in dire need of over-priced spa packages to alleviate the pain of being football widows. Perhaps I’m primarily irritated with this tired old “girls don’t like sports” thing because I’ve been watching the World Cup religiously, and I [...]
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