Speak up for women and families in the economic recovery package
I got an email through one of the progressive listservs earlier last week that said House offices were getting flooded with phone calls from conservatives telling them to vote no on the economic recovery package. You know they managed to get the provisions protecting reproductive health care for low-income women dropped, in an effort to [...]
...read moreRing-Wing Group in India Attacks Women
Why? Because the women had the nerve to go out in public. Thanks to Claire for the video.
...read more“What is bad for the Jews is better for Zionism.”
The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes by Avraham Burg (Palgrave Macmillan) When liberals and radicals discuss the occupation of Palestine, two soundbites tend to emerge: “How can Jews persecute Arabs when they themselves were persecuted? They know better!” and “It’s like when an abused child grows up to abuse their own [...]
...read moreNew Jersey Mayor Steps Down After Racist Threats
This clip from MSNBC tells us about Charles Tyson, the ex-mayor of South Harrison Township in New Jersey. Tyson was the first ever black mayor of the town — and he recently stepped down due to racist harassment and threats. My “favorite” part of the video is where white supremacist Bill White’s lawyer claims that [...]
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Because if you put flowers on it and have a matching tote, women will buy it.
So that image to the left, at first glance just looks like some cute (though not my style) little clutch, tote and scarf set, right? Well, close, but not quite. Actually, it’s a laptop. A laptop made to look like a clutch purse. A “digital clutch.” And yes, it does actually come with the scarf [...]
...read moreFeminist Movies and TV
So I was updating my Netflix queue and started looking for feminist and feminist-friendly movies, decided to do a Google search, and found out that The Apostate was in the same conundrum last year. She and her commenters came up with a good list, including awesome staples like If These Walls Could Talk, Thelma and [...]
...read moreYes Means Yes Live Chat
On Monday February 2, I will be participating in a live-chat on Feministing to discuss Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape. In addition to myself, you’ll hear from editors Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, and Feministing bloggers and fellow Yes Means Yes contributors Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez. [...]
...read morePop Into Feminism
Feminism and Pop Culture, Andi Zeisler, Seal Studies, 2008. Andi Zeisler, cofounder of Bitch Magazine, has written a useful and concise primer on feminism and US mass media. At 150 pages of text, it is necessarily brief and very purposefully accessible to untutored readers. That is what makes it quite useful. Feminist theorizing about representation [...]
...read moreSwingset
Check out this totally awesome poem by Andrea Gibson, about living in our stupidly gender-obsessed culture when you present your gender ambiguously. (Contains some strong language.) Transcript by Francisco/Genderkid (below jump).
...read moreFriday Random Ten – the Is January Over Yet? edition
Set your mp3 players to shuffle and post the first ten songs that come up. Go! Friday Video: The War on Drugs, because I’ve had this song stuck in my head all week. 1. The Kinks – Starstruck 2. Kid Sister – Family Reunion (featuring David Banner) 3. Timbaland and Magoo – Luv 2 Luv [...]
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Illinois Sued Over Refusal to Correct Birth Certificates
Well this is incredibly ridiculous, really upsetting . . . and wholly unsurprising. Two transgender women are suing the state of Illinois, which is refusing to change/correct their birth certificates to accurately reflect their gender identities. Why won’t the state change them? Karissa Rothkopf and Victoria Kirk haven’t met the state’s standards for gender reaffirmation [...]
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