Two questions this week: (1) What have you written? (Leave links in the comments); and (2) if you’re in the US, what are you doing this lovely Memorial Day weekend?
I am sitting out at my fabulous room mates’ pool at her parents’ house, eating lots of BBQ, getting sunburned and drinking lots of vinho verde. That means that I’m not around to moderate comments — so please be patient if you’re stuck in moderation. I’ll clear the queue out Monday evening.
Now, self-promote away!
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1. This week asked for ideas about how to talk to non-feminist women and discussed politics. I also wrote a poem for trolls.
2. This weekend, I went to an arts festival and saw a dance-off. Happy long weekend!
This was partly inspired by posts here, so only fair I should link it:
THANK A SECOND WAVE (OLD) FEMINIST!
I talked about being a polyamorous bisexual, (http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/#item9850), the new issue of Cosmopolitan – their beauty secrets, amazing amount of useless fluff and sex advice, and atrocious article on rape (http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/#item9689), went into a little bit of detail about my new “diet”, (http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/#item9429) and when I realized how persuasive patriarchy is (http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/#item9015)
1. I didn’t really write anything this week… I’m on hiatus because I have a billion things due and a prom dress to make. But I’m planning some really awesome stuff for next week, because I’ve been reading cool feminist things instead of studying for my exams!
2. For Memorial Day Weekend, I went to Gay Prom with my girlfriend! It was tons of fun – Gay Prom is sponsored by awesome people who do cool things like give teens free HIV tests and pass out HRC stickers, and the music was wonderful, and I met all kinds of cool people.
I am going to take a day for myself tomorrow and go wandering around Philly, and then have some people over to watch hockey.
I’m writing a multi-part series on sex over at my blog. On kink, on the word “slut,” on sex and free speech, inspired by the post here today. More to come so if you like those, check back.
1) I wrote this post about my high school theater company, which is in funding jeopardy because Planned Parenthood has taken a lot of budget hits.
2) We had a house party last night, but it was so underattended that we’ll be drinking the leftover booze for a month. Not that I’m complaining.
My pissy-ness at recent anti-binge-drinking rape-myth-endorsing advertisements reached critical mass and then I got my first-ever “WAA WHAT ABOUT THE MENZ WAA” comment.
1. I wrote about the “I Just Don’t Give Shit” 911 call and the comments on the original story, a post posing the question whether attractive women or ugly women have it worse, what happened when my five year old sister called me fat, why rape isn’t funny, and my Sunday Night Question: What are you vain about?
2. Cook-out with the family! Whoo!!
Cover art! Let me show you it!
A very ethnic model graces my Hanukkah story. I’m glad they got her right the first time.
Color of Magic/Color of Money, a dual-world m/m romance also has a nice one.
And a Thought for the Day.
I had to work because of mechanical failure.
Tomorrow, I am lazing about, cleaning house, and writing a bit.
I blogged about the recent noose placings in the US and how they can be viewed as a threat to the POC ( Hang ‘Em High) and on a take off on that noose jewelery designed by Disney to promote Dead Mans Chest.
Also in my series on bodies that matter I posted Field of Panties regarding the abuse of female migrant workers. And finally in one last look at pop culture I critique the construction of women in The Family Guy and the new spin off The Cleveland show.
I had a post called WTF?? No, Child Rape is NOT a Protected Religious View, and also offered disenfranchised Florida and Michigan Dems (and others) a chance to vote for my blog as a finalist for the Best of the Blogs award, for inspirational blogs…
As to question # 2, I’m hanging with my kids and mowed the lawn this Memorial Day weekend. (I know, wild & crazy.)
1. Just a little snarky re-write of an MRA advice column about finding a “good wife.”
2. Gardening and what not.
I spent this weekend writing papers, reading, and watching films for class. Finals are coming up this weekend. Blah.
I wrote about Burmese women refugees in Thailand who are not being allowed to seek asylum elsewhere because they are good for tourism.
That was the only thing I personally wrote this week, but my co-bloggers kept the content coming.
1. a rant from a loving parent
a post i am proud of featured at Think Girl this week.
and my not so happy reaction to ADM Mullen’s “Open to All Hands”.
2. when not working this weekend, i am spending time w/ my family. my very non traditional family.
Well last week my friend was out dancing, got assaulted and security didn’t care. This is my rant.
And this is not one for the pet lovers – in Cambodia they are turning to a new type of meat…
Can Zionism be Defended by Proxies (basically, bad things happen when the task of defending the idea of Israel is delegated to non-Jews. Folks start getting the wrong idea, Jewish experience is marginalized, conspiracy theories develop — lots of bad).
I have written poems and short stories.
This weekend I am trying to be who I want to be
My most recent posts are about collections of short poems as storytelling vehicles (with books by women as examples) and the most recent ruling regarding the FLDS.
1. I wrote/re-reported a lot this week. Here are my favorites:
Sex and the City turned me into Miranda., Look! It’s my book!, and Why I blog:.
2. I watched the second Narnia movie, not good, for most of the same reasons that I’m critical of the Harry Potter franchise. Plus there was the overbearing message that Christianity, patriarchy and war are good; while negotiation and women leaders are nonexistent. I also watched Baby Mama and loved it. :)
I’ve been reading about new found sexulaity (bisexual to be exact), seeing through a feminist’s eyes and dealing with double standards and gender stereotypes. http://ironjawedangst.wordpress.com/ Over the weekend I somehow made my way from a school dance, to Zion, to a near death experience, to Vegas and have now conquered all the way back to my bedroom.
I wrote a post about taking taxis in Mexico City as a woman for my blog, Macha Mexico: A Lesbian Guide to Mexico City.
I’m writing a series of posts about a conference I attended at Birkbeck, University of London on ‘What is masculinity? How useful is it as a historical category?’ From an academic’s point of view, but I hope the posts on misogyny and the political uses of gender history may have wider interest.
In the UK it’s a bank holiday weekend and so the weather’s rotten, but we’ve got friends coming to visit, so it doesn’t matter.
I lighten the tone with my own Eurovision Awards =)
Kind of had a ranting moment here about a complete shithead blogger.
1) I wrote a little on my dissertation, but that’s not widely available (yet!).
2) Earlier this weekend I did some mending and laundry, and today we’re making a picnic to take to the park to loll about in the grass and watch people play frisbee with their dogs.
Moved to my own domain, and redesigned. Whee!
Some musings on disability & body image throughout, and a post highlighting the reason we’re having so much trouble this primary cycle.
This week I wrote about the Texas Appeals court overturning the custody decision and a response from one of my readers (okay, friends who also reads my blog)
directed folks who care about the girls and sexism study to two cool girls centric festivals
and in the super shameless category, last week I got a shout out in a print magazine which is especially exciting since the other two blogs covered are official blogs of non profits written by communications departments
Oh, I am a day late. Bummer! I will celebrate shameless self promotion Monday:
I wrote a post about drug use in pregnancy and criminal punishment.
I yelled at the NYT for what I can only call willful ignorance: http://watersword.insanejournal.com/50311.html.
I wrote about some new reproductive health legislation up in Ohio
I also wrote a bit about standards of beauty and relationships.
And I addressed the Inside Higher Ed article about female academics having few to no children.
And for Memorial Day, I’m going to a yoga class, and then spending the afternoon at the pool and exploring my new community in Austin, TX; my fiance and I moved there on Saturday.
“Beijing Olympics “Volunteers’ Guide” lays into people with disabilities”: Olympic “sensitivity training” consists of nuggets like this:
I also take a peek at some cherry-picking “research” on MMORPG gender-swapping: ““Women are treated better than men online”, says NerdBoobLoot-man”, which glosses over and dismisses real issues of online sexual harassment in favour of what some men think it is like to be female and online.
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Lately – I wrote Blaming Mom
and The Internet Striptease
and other little posts at http://leighrastivo.com
Lovely idea to let us self-promote!
Rocking on with Hilary at day late: bizarre images of women in cages in a Beyonce music video, and creepy, creepy sexualization of tweenypoppers in the (little) girl-group Clique Girlz (seriously).
I was inspired by Obama’s speech in FL about Israel and wrote a response to that and Jil’’s recent Israel post based on some of my mixed feelings about all of it.
This Memorial Day weekend i was SUPER patriotic and spent the weekend in Washington, DC visiting a friend. We went to all the monuments, listened to America-loving country music, and watching Rolling Thunder (lots and lots of motorcycles) blaze through :) It was a wonderful weekend.
I’m late, too…but I linked to an Amazon review I wrote of David Brock’s book on John McCain, embedded an addictive “Alice in Wonderland” video and a great David Bowie performance, and, as is my wont, paid tribute to a couple of women, actress Mary-Louise Parker, and a female blogger who knows how to use a power tool. Which is more than I do.
I’m a day late, too, but what the fuck!
Here I dissect David “Bobo” Brooks’s recent pool of vomit in the New York Times editorial page.
And here I explore the relationship between the recent Iowa “immigration” raid and the police bust of a Hamptons art gallery cocktail party.
I know I’ve said this before, but maybe not recently: It is truly a mitzvah for a huge-ass blog like Feminste to give smaller bloggers a sanctioned opportunity to both hawk their own and check out each others wares.
I echo PhysioProf on both lateness and the coolitude of Feministe’s Shameless Self-Promotion bits.
1. I wrote a guide on approaching women in bars without being a total asshole, a skill that apparently escapes many, many guys.
2. Classes are finally over, so I read for pleasure for the first time in months! It was glorious!
Well this semester I finished my senior thesis on global feminist, anti-capitalist/imperialist work. Some great groups you should check out are MADRE , and the Ananya Dance Theater. Speaking of if you are ever in Minnesota and they are performing you should go check them out, they are fantastic.
Sorry I’m not very good at using the links button.
A few posts that might be of interest to Feministe readers:
1) An upcoming summit in Vancouver on women’s economic security
2) Of boys, girls, and the crisis in American public education
3) Care Talk, a blog about the “care sector”
4) Iceland and the importance of paternity leave‘
5) The capital gap (a sibling of the wage gap) – but be sure to read the comments, there is some solid criticism of my source
6) A bit about Amy Smith, a super cool engineer and inventor who develops low-cost technology for the developing world
I live in Canada, so no long weekend for me, except the usual extended weekend that is courtesy of my class schedule. I spent it studying, and I also rented How She Move, a fun and feminist dance movie set and filmed in Toronto. Check it out!
I have written a whole lot having just started my blog and having a whole lot to say. Please check me out at Uncensored Feminista.
What have I done this weekend? Studied. :/ I’ve had a lot of studying to catch up on so that’s what my weekend consisted of. Besides, it’s been raining and all around nasty down here in Miami, so there really hasn’t been much of a reason to go out.
I wrote about the resignation of Irmo High School’s homophobic principal, Eddie Walker.
I seriously love reading what all you gals are writing about. It’s awesome.
I wrote a few things, but I guess the top two on my grrr list were entries I wrote yesterday morning:
1) On the 270 immigrants being mass-sentenced to federal prison a mere 12 days after their arrest.
2) On Amanda Marcotte saying offensive POC shit. Again.
Feminist Review just started a monthly interview feature, and the first is with Amy Richards about her new book Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself.
As for what I’ve been up to this weekend, it’s my last weekend in my apartment so I’ve been selling off all of my stuff.
Rats! I missed the what-are-you-doing part – I spent some time with a friend who needed some friendship. I am now in San Jose at the NetSquared conference. As per usual, I have been writing at Make Something Happen. It has been great to go back and see everything that everyone is writing.
I just started a new blog, hopefully to include some mix of culture, politics, and current events through media criticism. Please check it out and let me know if you have any tips!
elizabethruth.wordpress.com
this weekend, i continued in my attempt to understand the NYC subway system (i’m new to the city this summer)
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