Jill’s out of town, but since someone asked, here you go! Promote away — in fact, I’ll start!
Over at the Curvature, I’m writing a series about my favorite feminist Yoko Ono and the public perceptions/myths surrounding her. The Introduction and Part One are up already, and I hope that fellow Beatles/Yoko fans will go check them out.
See how truly shameless one can be? Follow that example and hit me with your recent posts.
Oh I can be shameless alright.
What if the Virgin Mary Didn’t remain a Virgin: Looking at playboys depiction of a nude virgin Mary in their Mexican edition.
Katrina and the hidden race war: Looking at the acts of violence committed by white vigilantes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that still have yet to be investigated.
What’s that smell, English women don’t wash their genitals: Looking at shaming women for supposed vaginal odor.
Pussy: Why you should celebrate it
Finally big huge blogwhore that I am
I cried as if I were his daughter: Discussing incest and rape huge, huge trigger warning
I recently posted a reflection / recognition , entitled “A sane voice: Arundhati Roy”. She continues to stand up against Empire and calls us all to do the same.
I wrote about:
1. Madonna’s Xmas plans: Madonna’s Christmas Kiboshed.
2. An afternoon touring North Carolina homes: My Afternoon on the West End Home Tour.
3. The Rick Warren pick in Mayor Gavin Newsom.
As always, thank you for the opportunity to shamelessly self-promote.
Carly D. Kickslaw
A Smut-Filled Tome and The Triad Rag
I did a bit of a link round-up and I made a post about my recent name-change.
I mused about my issues with the focus on orgasm as the be-all end-all of female sexual experience: after dinner orgasm is the new name of my imaginary band.
We still need to take action on Bush’s conscience rule. In lighter news, I watched Teeth and Itty Bitty Titty Committee and am looking for more feminist flicks to watch.
I finally weighed in on the Rick Warren issue.
I moaned about Rick Warren, etc, but for a change of pace, I just opened a thread about folk’s holiday reading plans.
I wrote down my solstice thoughts, read a wonderful woman-authored chapbook, commented on the new Burger King fragrance, and noted what’s being left out of coverage of the Duggars.
I thought people would like an update on my medical things that I mentioned before.
It appears that I am like the proverbial fiddle – my fat-hating anonymous troll came back for seconds, and vehemently denies that s/he has the hots for me…
I’ve also decided with some trepidation to make my Creation Myth stories available for others to read. The first “Tale of the Midnight Isles” is here. It’s a very good idea to read them in strict chronological order, although each story should stand alone.
Over in the forest, I discovered an uncovered front in the war on Xmas and add my belated $0.02 to the Philly DA’s perversion of justice in an old case in which justice was already served.
I wrote a piced on Harry Potter and denying women power
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/the-divination-professor/
http://www.fatlotofgood.org.au/?p=137
I muse on why the Fat Acceptance movement is largely ok with breast reduction but not any other sort of body reducing…
And I don’t know how to do the linky thing dammit…
Over at Yes Means Yes Blog, I have my take on the story of 12-year-old police brutality survivor Dymond Milburn, which Jill picked up here. On a slightly lighter note, I also posed a question that Hanne Blank raised in “The Process-Oriented Virgin” (her essay in the Yes Means Yes anthology, which is for sale online and in bookstores now): when was your real first time?.
Beauty By Numbers: an article I wrote for an Australian women’s mag about the idea that beauty is something we can attain by following a formula (blonde hair, big boobs, a tan…) and the impact this has on women who subscribe to it. See also: a quick, post-publish follow up blog post.
I also responded to Charles Blow’s op ed on hook-up culture (*sigh*), and for Aussies reading this, to our government’s lack of action on climate change – and what we should do about it.
I took on the Pussycat Dolls, as if enough people haven’t written about them already.
“Go and get yourself fixed up, Sheila.” Flibanserin and Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.
In seasonal news, I found some nice sunrise/sunset photos for our Summer Solstice down under, and tigtog spotted a photo of a giant topiary pudding.
I reminisce about the time I got Guerrilla Girls on Tour to perform at my college.
http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/remember-time-ggot-came-to-marist.html
I introduce a new segment at my blog called Anti-Feminist Dating Service, which was inspired by Old Spice’s Man of the Year award.
http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/anti-feminist-dating-service-matthew.html
Body image and Bettie Page.
I wrote about Why Literature Matters (in response to several recent articles on the subject) and on a few articles I’ve read recently (including Louise Erdrich’s powerful new novel, The Plague of Doves): http://annieem.wordpress.com/
Joe Biden listened to me.
We had REAL SNOW in Las Vegas. It was awesome.
The Line Between What We Believe And How We Behave
I recently posted about a man who assaulted a homeless woman with a bat at the shelter where he worked after she refused his sexual advances.
Clicky please and let me know what you think.
Obituaries of two feminists I have recently lost:
Kathleene Anthony
Sue Urbas (a few paragraphs down)
I’m all over asking how freedom of religion can inform and influence the debate on the freedom to marry as well as pondering how we can incorporate gender inclusive langauge into the study of early Christian literature while still retaining the important aspects of those relationships often described in Father/son terms.
My new job working with homeless children is proving I have a lot to learn.
I was not surprised to find out that a pharmaceutical company had a ghost writer successfully publish a major journal article contradicting research that linked hormones to cancer. I did a little investigating, and found out more unsurprising work linked to the doctor who allowed his name to be pasted on to the propaganda job.
I came up with a pretty decent analogy explaining the War on Christmas mentality after a pretty pathetic comments section from my What’s so wrong with saying “Happy Holidays”? post.
I think we should turn our backs on Rick Warren just like we did on Phyllis Schlafly.
Oh, and I got the research fellowship.
i’m still scratching my head (well, beating it against the wall) over this rick warren invocaction. still writing about it, too:
http://getangrywithme.com/2008/12/rick-warren-insane-simply-retarded/
Well…I wrote this post pondering and pontificating over porn and erotica. I’d love it if anyone had any comments, because it’s a topic I’m interested in–sex, sexuality, the power dynamics, feminism, how it all ties together, etc. –but my RL friends who read my blog seem somewhat uncomfortable with the topic… ^_^; Although maybe that’s because I gave some fairly explicit links. (With warnings! Clear warnings!) Anyway, ’tis here: http://blog-of-cool.livejournal.com/64222.html
I thought you might like my performance project. I’m researching feminist issues through reliving 4 decades. I just finished the 50′s and am now in the 60′s. Next up, 70′s and 80′s! Keep up the good work!
http://www.mydecadeyear.blogspot.com
Three posts on the new HHS rules allowing broader rights of refusal:
New HHS Rule: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3998
Pharmacist Refusal and Require to Fill Laws: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=4000
And, the longer one that gives my reasoning about these rules, Conscience and birth control: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=4002
Also, I review The Shooting Party and Jungle Fever: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3993
And I’m still keeping track of the protests in Greece: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3987 as well as pirate blogging: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=3991
This week on MMW, we examined the Rahma campaign for domestic workers’ treatment, pondered about whether online activism is effective, reviewed Leila Aboulela’s book Minaret, discussed Egypt’s first female mayor, talked about a Facebook campaign aiming to improve perception of spinsters, and overdosed on our Friday links.
I weighed in on the the latest bullshit study ‘proving’ women go for men who are big spenders, as well as some shorter pieces on Bush’s midnight regulations (h/t Feministe!) and Obama’s promised shift back to putting science over dogma
Only Very Important Issues here. Of late: behind the scenes at vomiting bartender gatherings, the Cosmopolitan as the official drink of imaginary assholes, what to do with an eight-month-old in a blizzard, grocery store theft, and Christopher Columbus.
One bartending single mom, her teaching job, her masters program, her infant, and her feminist survival tactics against life in a nightclub and Sex and the City.
eightarms.weebly.com
Women Shop 2008 – our guide to using your holiday buying power to support women around the world
ESC Holiday Shopping Guide – includes lots of the awesome and talented women that we met at the NYC Bust Craftacular (and of course we had to do a bonus guide to shamelessly promote our own products too). We also did a post on magazine subscriptions as great last minute gifts.
Plus our take on NARAL’s new Free.Will.Power campaign.
Yay!
I finished up my 4-part series on the documentary Demographic Winter
Part 1 on my initial reactions to the documentary Demographic Winter
Part 2 digs deeper into the meaning of the film
Part 3 looks at who is in and behind the film
Part 4 examines partisan media coverage of DW
And I read the Proposed Rule to allow all health care professionals to refuse anything they feel like refusing. Then I commented.
If anyone will be in Kansas for the holidays, come join me!
This isn’t blogging, but on Yahoo News
Hate crime against lesbian in California
One of the most amazing bloggers on law enforcement related domestic violence has received threatening emails from one of her subjects of her postings. This is absolutely outrageous but it’s unfortunately, a fact of life for those who blog on LE issues including corruption and misconduct. If you blog on these things, you WILL get harassed and/or threatened at some point. The only question is when or how. Especially if you’re a woman and often they threaten you with violence particularly sexualized violence. They often do this with impunity from officers within their own department.
Here’s one email.
Another blogger on LE DV issues has offered her site for messages of support.
She writes about her experiences trying to report this cyberstalking.
I just set up a blog on feminism (alongside other themes). My latest post is about the Pope’s announcement that the gays are officially as bad as climate change!
http://directionlessbones.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/homosexuality-will-kill-millions-leave-billions-homeless/
[...] for women who behave outside of patriarchal expectations, I couldn’t not post this story (h/t). A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, [...]
The history of feminist comics! Also Jane Fonda and Target Women.
http://unconscious-and-irrational.blogspot.com/