The virtual moon hut is: OPEN
So, I was going to start off my week (hi! everyone. hi) with a nice long meaty post about “Sicko,” which I saw last week; then follow it with about eight or twelve dazzling epic posts on everything from queer femme gender presentation to a (promised, overdue) review of Dacia Ray’s “Naked on the Internet” [...]
...read moreForget Paris
Hilton, Schmilton, speaking of let-them-eat-cakers who got a get out of jail (mostly) free card, Bush just let that momser Libby off the hook. Yes, I know, we’re, what: surprised by this? But really, you know, talk about thwarted schadenfreude. Can we at least all start cracking terrible jokes about his sexuality? Here, I’ll start: [...]
...read moreShare your photos, help LGBT youth
Point Foundation scholar Ceceilia Allwein A guest-post by Ceceilia Allwein So you have all those photos online, right??? And those photos are just sitting there looking pretty. Uh huh. Now you can help raise money for scholarships for queer kiddos and activists with those photos!!!! Hello, dear Feministe readers! Let me introduce myself: I’m Ceceilia [...]
...read moreIgnoring Anti-Choice Terrorism
The car bombing in Glasgow and attempted bombings in London have understandably been all over the news this weekend — after all, trying to blow up a car in order to kill and injure people and damage property in furtherance of your political ideals is a pretty big deal right? Well, not when the terrorist [...]
...read moreRepro Rights Reads
Three good ones today: Salon has an article up on the difficulties facing poor, pregnant women in Mississippi. Lauren has written a great post about single motherhood and the rational choice to have a child. And Amanda has an excellent review of one of my favorite books about reproductive justice, Killing the Black Body. Read [...]
...read more“Moisture White”
I was buying lotion at The Body Shop the other day and was taken aback by a display of “moisture white” skincare products. They don’t seem to be advertising it as skin-whitening cream, but it does claim to “brighten” skin — and, come on, the name is moisture white. Am I over-reacting?
...read moreMore presidential elections
India’s presidential elections are a couple of weeks away (on the 18th of this month), and a woman, Pratibha Patel, is contesting. This is, of course far less interesting than the U.S presidential elections and Hilary Clinton, since the Indian president a) isn’t elected by the public and b) has very little power to do [...]
...read moreRecapin’ Your Ass
I’ve been really bad about doing this weekly re-cap thing. Lo siento. Last night I put together three weeks work of recap links, then accidentally navigated off the page and it all disappeared. Sadly I don’t have the time to do that all over again, so I’m going to just recap this week, and promise [...]
...read moreAll your wildest dreams have come true.
You asked for it, and you got it: I’m opening a thread on male circumcision. This is that thread. If you want to talk about female genital mutilation without discussing male circumcision, that thread is here. If you want to talk about the validity of comparing FGM with male circumcision, that thread is here. This [...]
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