Start Your Decade Off Right! By “Rebranding” Feminism!
Hey, you guys! It is almost a new year! A new DECADE, even. That is a big deal, right? And, as we approach our bright and shining future, it’s time for us to engage in some serious thoughts. Thoughts about Feminism! Where has it been, where is it going, at what point do we just [...]
...read moreHappy New Year!
And happy new decade (that’s a link to Lauren’s post below, at which you can get all dreamy and reflective). It’s already 1 January 2010 here in the future Australia. We have two pretty spectacular fireworks displays on the harbour here in Sydney every New Year’s Eve, but this year I elected to stay home [...]
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Standard End of Decade Post
What was special about the 200Xs? I thought a lot about what happened in the last ten years that was really important to me, and finally I decided that the one thing that most impacted my daily life was how the intertubes exploded. The rise of the blogosphere paved the way for a new generation [...]
...read moreBabies
The trailer for this upcoming movie on a year in the life of babies from four different countries reminds me how baby faces, baby bodies, and baby behaviors are so universal. Mostly it makes my uterus contract. I hope it doesn’t fall into a trap of cultural stereotypes so we may all enjoy the effects [...]
...read moreQuick link, because I have no words
China shopping centre builds ‘car park for women’: Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women’s “strong sense of colour and different sense of distance”. It has wider spaces to better suit women drivers and is painted ‘pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes’. (Via [...]
...read moreNew Restrictions
Call me cynical, but this “you cannot pee within an hour of landing” seems a bit… simplistic. I mean, yeah, deter people from blowing shit up. But when you’re making the decision between blowing shit up an hour before landing verus two hours before landing, you have failed. And yes, I understand that the majority [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
The “it’s Christmas so I’m at home and not really blogging, sorry” edition. But I’m sure many of you are writing interesting things! So post a comment with a description of something you’ve written and a link. Did everyone have a nice holiday?
...read moreWhite Elephant
My fam has decided to do a white elephant Xmas this year, and Chef and I have been wandering around the house trying to decide what to wrap up as our presents. Tonight Chef had a brilliant idea, “I know! Your degree!” It will do as much for them as it has for me. Fa [...]
...read moreNewsy reads for today
The Times: BBC bows to age rage and brings back mature women. Three women over fifty, Fiona Armstrong, 53, Julia Somerville, 62 and Zeinab Badawi, 50, have been hired as presenters on the BBC News Channel. This is a pleasant change in a world in which older women mysteriously disappear from news programs, when women [...]
...read moreGirldrive!
Still looking for the perfect, feminist holiday gift? Allow me to suggest Girldrive, by Emma Bernstein and (former Feministe guest-blogger!) Nona Willis Aronowitz. Here’s the trailor for a taste: Girldrive trailer! from Girldrive on Vimeo. Nona kindly sent me a copy of the book, and it really is lovely. The women featured in Girldrive are [...]
...read moreSexual Trafficking of Native American Women is Widespread
The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center has recently done a study about the sexual trafficking of Native American women and girls, and the Circle News published an article about it earlier this month* (h/t Racialicious). Some of the descriptions of violence in the article are extremely triggering. We already know that Native American women and [...]
...read moreLots of potential, but not sitting right with me.
Here’s an article from the BBC entitled “Police team up for rape campaign”. I am doubtless not the only one to have read enough articles with similar titles to now be approaching this one with trepidation. One would hope that an article with such a title would be about police putting together an anti-sexual violence [...]
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