Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

A little rant on abortion

About how yeah, you really do have to be a feminist to be a progressive.

Natalie Portman and Emily Bronte, Plus, The Terror Dream and the way white guys dominate the pulitzers.

Marvel comics does it again: Dr Doom is a misogynist pig

Question: is it “okay” for a “bad guy” to be a misogynist pig?

why women’s mags make us feel horrible about ourselves.

I have been talking about written one fat white woman’s take on racism

as well as why I love my doctor

and some other stuff…

I went on a tear posting about parents of daughters and issues of sexuality. It started last week, when I wrote about how Chris Dodd and Barack Obama mentioned their daughters in discussions of gay rights and sex education.

A few days later I posted a follow-up about, among other things, teaching children about bodily autonomy.

That post led a friend of mine to put up a list of stuff she’d want any teenage girl who was thinking about becoming sexually active to know. If you only follow one of these links, click on that one — it’s a great post, and it attracted lots of great comments.)

Finally, I posted on the idea of raising girls to be strong and fierce instead of afraid and ashamed, and about how that sense of strength might help them feel empowered to make smart sexual choices later on.

I might be interning in a domestic violence research team.

I wrote about the current Radiohead tour and about some fabulous buttons I won in a contest held by a really cool Etsy artist.

I like to write about female masturbation, I just wrote the second part of my on-going series on the subject in hopes of getting women TO LOOK AT THEIR VAGINAS!!! Here are parts zero and one.

I also wrote the prologue to my new blog section on being a “Shut-in” and struggling against two societies, traditional Cambodian and Modern Canada, that both reject progressive women–All in an effort to find my place in the world.

I also wrote how some White Women use feminism in order to avoid realizing their own internalized self-hatred. In their desire for a standard that is inclusive to them, they unknowingly exclude that women of colour and women who are fat.

I talked a bit about cultivation, faith, and the worthwhile dangers of caring; and then about my own contribution to the problem of gentrification, hoping to elicit discussion.

We review the Boalt Hall Dean’s argument against firing or investigating John Yoo; and we critique a law review article focusing on religion as a basis for lawmaking.

I wrote my irritated response to statements like “real women have curves” with Real Women Have Bodies (my favourite trolls came out to play, but this time they were rather well behaved – I haven’t been called a feminazi in weeks), followed by what sounds like random homophobia to me.

I’ve written a bunch of stuff on my new blog, The G Spot, but I’ll just focus on the post that are most-feminist-related.

First, here’s my post wondering why in hell Salon continues to publish Camille Paglia, an excruciatingly awful writer and vicious antifeminist:
http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/can-someone-ple.html

Next, here’s a short post I did on the latest research looking at the link between legalized abortion and crime rates:
http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/abortion-and-cr.html

Finally, here’s my tribute to multiracial feminist punk diva extraordinaire Poly Styrene. If you’ve never heard her classic song “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!”, which there’s a Youtube of in my post, you haven’t lived. Seriously!
http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/weekend-diva–1.html

Whacked-Out Wednesdays over at Smartpatrol’s pad…

Major irritation over evo psych from Nicholas Kristof, a rant about being disappeared as an anti-war Clinton supporter, and personalizing medical marijuana.

I wrote about the rape epidemic & normalization of rape in the Congo; the U.S. mainstream media / McCain being a dumbass (and not being called out on it by the U.S. MSM); and the sexism of “I hate Hillary because of Bill” and “I’m afraid of Bill being in the Oval Office again.”

Quick thoughts on sexism in the art world, a brief review of yet another short story reliant on the all-powerful male gaze, and how some of my students surpassed my expectations when I encouraged them to engage in gender-based analysis (note that I’m currently teaching at a university in China).

I recently launched a lifestyle and business blog targeting young women in their 20s and 30s. It isn’t a “traditionally feminist” blog per se, but it was launched as I didn’t feel that papers like the Wall Street Journal or magazines like Forbes really spoke to women and women only. Prospere Magazine also features on a regular basis, female enterpreneurs. So far, it has only featured women who operate a sole proprietorship, as the majority of women business owners do not have huge or even medium corporations.

I also write a blog called Shorty Stories as I feel that petite women are very much ignored by body image activists.

A guest post from someone developing a feminist identity and figuring out when to/how to speak up :)

I’m a little late for Sunday, but there’s a lot going down here at Harvard on Cambridge Common:

Trying to wrap our heads around the newly discovered political intelligence unit in our campus police department, reporting to the feds on us lefty college kids;

Thinking about an ethics of understanding and justice;

And beginning a multi-part series on the militarization of our college campus.

Soon, too, some belated reflections on the painful loss of brownfemipower’s work.

It’ll be a long week — I can tell already.

I contemplate cis privilege and labels

I’m writing about sexual harassment in law eforcement here. It’s hard to blog b/c the police department visits my site to try to find out if any officers are talking to me. Apparently, they get suspended, which is different than the civic awards they get when they harass me but whatever.

Ooops, The link in the first posting is wrong.