Imagine: A Lynchmob of Female Gamers
Thanks to Luke over at Kotaku I have had my daily “jaw hitting the floor” experience. Maybe I should just show you the cover of this upcoming Nintendo DS game: That’s right… it’s a game about TAKING CARE OF BABIES! I’ll give you one guess who it’s aimed at. OK, I’ll just tell you: it’s [...]
...read moreGreatest Hits: The Public Woman
Originally posted on May 3, 2007 at Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance. Over the past few months, much ado has been made about the harassment of female bloggers, and the online harassment of women in general. The Kathy Sierra incident — wherein a female technology blogger was threatened so badly that she canceled speaking engagements [...]
...read moreDems dropped the ball
The YK conference distracted me from the recent FISA bill, so instead of writing something in-depth, I’ll point you to this New York Times editorial and to Glenn’s place. Glenn does a fantastic job, so I’d recommend scrolling down and reading pretty much his entire front page. From the Times editorial: The votes in the [...]
...read moreRape survivor prosecuted
Unbelievable. An Air Force enlisted woman who claimed to be the victim in a rape case at Pope Air Force Base but then opted not to testify at a court martial, has become a defendant accused of committed indecent acts with the men involved. Airman 1st Class Cassandra M. Hernandez, now 20, also is being [...]
...read moreFeminist Reads
A few things for you all to peruse today: What Autistic Girls Are Made Of Mandatory arrest laws are bad for victims of intimate partner violence. Judith Warner is a little late to the game on this one, but she writes that the partial-birth abortion ban puts women in danger and won’t save a single [...]
...read moreSleeping with the Enemy, Part 1
I’m doing it. And I’ve got a lot to say about it. The background: I’m a queer-identified femme who’s now dating a cisgender man after a decade and a half of dating exclusively women, genderqueers & transmen. As you might imagine, this is making a lot of issues that were once somewhat abstract very personal [...]
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laying on hands
I’m a street medic. That bears some explaining, for a lot of people, even in activist circles. The street medic or action medic movement dates back to the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, giving support to political-action struggles throughout the United States, but it took on new patterns, techniques, and scale much [...]
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