Project Guest Blogger: Week Four
UPDATED! A big thanks to Roy and SnowdropExplodes for their awesome guest-blogging this week. You guys are fantastic! This week we’ll be joined by Flea, who usually writes over at One Good Thing, and Bint, who blogs at My Private Casbah. They’re both fantastic writers with unique voices, and I’m looking forward to having them [...]
...read moreSupport the Troops
Let them suffer without adequate mental health care access.
...read moreDoing It All
Naomi Wolf has an interesting article in the Washington Post today about how images of falling-apart women dominate the media while real-life women are increasingly independent and competent. She rightly pins part of it on backlash culture, which is certainly nothing new: Periods of tremendous positive growth in women’s roles and opportunities always generate a [...]
...read moreBlack women are promoting obesity with their big booties
But it’s the reporter who’s the biggest ass. The tagline of the article hints at things to come: “Many blacks love big women, but having a rump the size of Buffie the Body’s can put women at risk for disease.” And it only gets better: Beauty, of course, is in the eye of the beholder [...]
...read more80 percent ain’t so bad
A man who beat his pregnant girlfriend so severely that she died of brain damage has been sentenced to 36 years in prison — 16 for killing 21-year-old Monica Sanchez, and 20 for the death of the fetus she was carrying. Good to know that a born, adult woman’s life is worth 4/5ths of a [...]
...read moreE, It’s Bin Champion
Which is Yorkshire dialect for, “Heavens, what a wonderful time I’ve had”. As this is going to be my last post as guest blogger here, I’d like to thank everyone who’s read and commented on my posts, it’s been a very enlightening experience for me, and I hope that I have lived up to the [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Give us what you got.
...read moreFinal Post- What’s the First Album You Owned?
Well, it’s my last day guest posting here at feministe, and I just wanted to say thanks to my gracious hosts for letting me clutter up their site. I really appreciated the invitation, and it’s been a really interesting week. I’ve had several lively posts on here, so I thought I’d turn it down a [...]
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