I guess Jill is still suffering from that acute dial-up AOL affliction in Seattle. We’re thinking of you, Jill!
Everyone else, show me what you’ve got.
Oh, and for those who are keeping track from last week’s Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday — Part Two of my series on Yoko Ono is up.
I’ve got one up about Obama’s Cabinet, looking at the diversity and the presence of wives and mothers in it.
Testimony: A woman speaks about disability and sexuality.
Time begs of an Obama boy: Time promotes genderized traits in children, making boys a liability to their fathers being elected.
According to HuffPo Michelle Obama is a gal: Looking at language used in the media that others Michelle
The Illegal Hijab: Looking at the ways in which the rights of Muslim women are violated when they must interact with the justice system.
I blogged about a female hate crime survivor in Richmond, California, and shopping for Xmas food in Holiday Gauntlet.
In my gossip blog, I wrote about Amy Winehouse, Adam Sandler, Lance Armstrong, and Kid Rock.
As always, thank you for the opportunity to shamelessly self-promote.
Carly D. Kickslaw
I lodge my complaint with customers who are lemming-like in their faithfulness to brand names.
I have a Memoriam to one of my heroes, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated a year ago this past Thursday.
There is also the introduction to my series “Veiled Contempt” about the parallels between Western and Islamic sexism.
And finally, I register my disgust and contempt with Israel’s disproportionate use of force in Gaza.
Musings on making things, like earrings or bread, doting, nurturing, defense of the “feminine” virtues/mothering for people of all genders.
This week, I posted cover images for two books: The Death Mook, an anthology to include my piece “Death of an Eikaiwa” and my own collection of poems that came out of my struggle to survive having been raped, Magdalene & the Mermaids.
I am sure it is no surprise that I heart midwives!
I do a little navel gazing in déjà vu, all over again.
And, I support real family values during the season of love.
Planetransgender, Fight The Hate H8, Join The Impact, Civilrightsfront, and Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are supporting a donation & card drive for the victim of the Richmond gang rape & hate crime.
This past week has been all about holiday frippery at Kittywampus. But I had a couple of substantive posts at the end of the previous one, which I didn’t shamlessly hawk at the time, so …
I vented about the unpublicized sexual side effects of anti-depressants (and yes, I value their place in saving people’s lives, but I believe people ought to have complete information so they can weigh potential risks and benefits). In terms of gender, this is a pretty equal-opportunity issue (equally messed up, that is!). But it has been neglected as part of our culture’s overall contempt for the body, so I see it as ripe for feminist analysis.
Also, I explored the crucial role vulnerability plays in sex. I think men and women may tend to experience this somewhat differently, but I argue that opening ourselves up to a partner meets a basic human need. And I get in a couple of digs at Cosmo along the way.
I write about how lipstick is not inherently evil.
A post about catcalling and how I witnessed the “guys won’t catcall you if you’re walking with another guy rule” get broken.
I also have a super-cynical atheist Christmas post, and you can scroll down through my blog in general if you’d like to read harrowing accounts of wisdom-tooth-removal hellsurgery.
I’ve got a post up on Bush saying Fuck you to women and children, like he ever says anything else. Ha!
Happy late War on Christmas from the geniuses of the anti-marriage-equality movement!
* Dimwittedness imitates art…
* Someone who’s worried that if gays can marry, a state-ordered conflation of Christmas and Halloween will be next…
* This guy explains why Jesus is non-religious…
* And happy homophobic holidays!
A pre-manifesto: [url=http://popfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/sex-intellectuals-and-conservative.html]Sex, Intellectuals and Conservative Feminism[/url]
Lots of different cancer related articles and hours and hours of work on changing platforms. A piece about BPA and the FDA http://aftercancernowwhat.blogspot.com/2008/12/bpa-may-not-be-safe-says-fda.html
And a brief blurb about Lance Armstrong’s girlfriend getting pregnant (after testicular cancer that’s a big deal) http://aftercancernowwhat.blogspot.com/2008/12/lance-armstrong-did-it-old-fashioned.html
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time working on the resources pages of my blog. Any additional resources or feedback would be appreciated. http://acnwresourcepages.blogspot.com/
I wrote an overdue letter to Dr. Phil, because he’s scary, heterosexist, and stole my mother.
http://saucyriot.com/2008/12/29/dear-dr-phil/
I’ve been doing a lot of research on the demise of the movements in the 1960s-70 as part of a book I am working on.
Alternative lifestyle is not a synonym for same sex fucking.
http://womanrebel.blogspot.com/2008/12/alternative-lifestyles.html
I’ve been reading a lot of Noam Chomsky lately. I just finished “Imperial Ambitions” I started thinking about how just reading the news from alternative sources like BBC and being aware of America’s actions in the world cause you to see things differently from those who are ignorant of things like imperialism.
http://womanrebel.blogspot.com/2008/12/red-pillblue-pill-matrix-as-allegory.html
A couple of Christmas-related things to start with:
First up, I compare and contrast the texts of, and government reactions to, two different Christmas messages – the Pope’s, and President Armadinejad’s, and wonder why the Pope’s hate speech didn’t get the same reaction as Armadinejad’s message.
I also provided a list of tunes that I got using a Christmas present of an iTunes gift card, most of which I already had on vinyl or cassette, because I wanted to have them in my ‘puter, and can’t afford a USB turntable. I posted the list because I wanted to share a few via the youTube videos.
Outside of Christmas stuff, I had a crack at writing a crash course in sex-positive feminism for a socialist who was being a git about sex workers’ rights. I also wrote about the UK Government’s plans for a website rating system like that used for movies – apparently, they’re keen to persuade President Obama’s administration to sign up to making it international!
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i have never done this before. also, i don’t have a blog, just an LJ. is that ok?
it is just a response to one of the most hateful things i have seen online recently
http://denelian.livejournal.com/157055.html
This week at Sociological Images we had a couple of good posts:
In one, we discussed how women of color, when they are included in advertising aimed at the “mainstream,” tend to the be subordinated in various ways:
http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/12/26/how-and-why-people-of-color-are-included-in-advertising-8th-in-a-series/
In another, we collected a set of ads in which “hunting” was used as a metaphor for dating and sex:
http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/12/27/sex-and-dating-as-a-hunt/
We hope you “enjoy” them!
I just finished Noam Chomsky’s “Imperial Ambitions” and I’ve been thinking a lot about how some people view the world with a limited level of awareness, in part because they choose to view it through only the main stream media. But how others have a greater level of awareness of the sort one gets from Chomsky, Zinn and others.
http://womanrebel.blogspot.com/2008/12/red-pillblue-pill-matrix-as-allegory.html
I’ve been reading a book about the 1960s underground press and how it started totarget various groups living “alternative Lifestyles” this is different from the corrupted use of the term as applied to LGBT/T people’s sex acts.
http://womanrebel.blogspot.com/2008/12/alternative-lifestyles.html
One more try:
Sex, Intellectuals and Conservative Feminism : A Pre-Manifesto
On feminism and stillbirth.
Link, sorry:
http://anarchistmom.blogspot.com/2008/02/feminism-and-stillbirth.html
is probably the best post I’ve done over the past week. Feel free to read the other ones though. ;)
I did a post about limitations of reproductive freedom in order to control population,
http://directionlessbones.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/controlling-birth/
And one about how patriarchy strengthens itself with internal divisisions.
http://directionlessbones.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/conservative-dialectics/