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I wrote a post about the potential reversal of the HHS so called “conscience rule”. I tried to clear up some of the misconceptions about it, and some of the nuance that makes it difficult to discuss in soundbites.
Also, I wrote we need some WORK, about whites working against racism.
Now Porn Comes Calling For Nadya Suleman: Looking at the offer she received to make a porn movie and the ways our abdication of social responsibility forces women into making choices they otherwise would not make.
Did Kathryn Johnston Really Get Justice: Police officers were sentenced to 10 years for gunning down a 92 year old woman and attempting to plant drugs in her home. Does this seem a fair sentence?
Sure Let’s Honour A Homophobe and An Admitted Abelist: Looking at why giving Jerry Lewis an award at the Oscars was a terrible mistake.
Terrence Howard Is Ebony’s Renaissance Man: Looking at why it is problematic for a magazine that claims to represent all black people to feature a man that has admitted to punching his now ex wife twice in the face. What does this say about the value of black women in the community.
Transgender In Iran: A look at a documentary about what it is like to be trans in Iran
I’m very, very angry about a man raping a four year old at night in her grandmother’s home, and getting let off with a suspended sentence. [trigger warning]
“Sex therapist” Bettina Arndt is cheering on marital rape: “The notion that women have to want sex to enjoy it has been a really misguided idea that has caused havoc in relationships over the last 40 years.”
We look at the Maternity Services review – its implications for health funding, homebirth funding (none), Indigenous women and healthcare, interventions, and the possibility that attending a homebirth may become outright illegal nationwide within a year and half.
On a lighter note, Guest Hoyden Chally from Zero at the Bone remembers Octavia Butler.
I wrote a piece, for News Hounds, about Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly’s upcoming speaking engagement for a group (It Happened to Alexa Foundation) that provides funding and advocacy for rape victims. Bill O’Reilly is a misogynist who once said, regarding the victim of a rape/murder:
“Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She’s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she’s out of her mind, drunk.” (audio clip on Media Matters)
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/02/28/bill_oreilly_to_speak_at_fund_raising_event_for_rape_victims_oh_no_he_shouldnt.php
Since I received some wonderful suggestions for novels last week, this week I’m asking for running music suggestions for the over 40 women who likes to run far….
I’ve got a post up about whether our use of the word “allies” is problematic that I’d love some thoughts on. I also have a review of the Women, Power and Politics exhibition, and responded to some interview questions from ChallyZatB.
Fun times this week…
We Must Cultivate Our…: I consulted with the seed archive organizer, permaculturalist Nance Klehm. My question: “What, say, seven species would you recommend for the inexperienced urban gardener? Keep in mind that I have two black thumbs. I have killed cacti. I make silk roses wilt…”
Art + Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist: It should be of no surprise that some of the most peaceful and timid visionaries have met violent deaths. It seems that the power with which they create, forge, or even love is equal to that which opposes their very existence.
Behind the Bedroom Door: Don’t be confused. While some of these essays are sexy, this writing is neither erotic nor academic. These are personal essays covering points across the adult female life cycle, the thoughts and feelings of individual women about their individual sex lives.
Against a Trans Narrative: I realized that Against a Trans Narrative was arguably the best movie about gender I’ve ever viewed. It’s remarkably intelligent, sensitive and powerful. A documentary that presents contesting views about gender issues, transgender identity, queer and lesbian politics, and how all of the above play out in real life, it’s a captivating and educational watch.
Does Not Compute
Sex should be a normal, enjoyable, and desired part of a marriage/relationship, whether you have kids or not, and coming up with “excuses” to avoid the physical side of your relationship with your partner is dishonest and encourages the myth that men always want sex and women never do.
I speculated on the reasons fo “lactophobia” and argued that demands that mothers nurse their babies discreetly are totally unreasonable. On a less overtly feminist note, I examined the links between medicine and objectification.
I complain about “Legend of the Seeker” and how it just destroyed perfectly good and fairly feminist source material to turn a wonderful story into the same old shit with added sexist and racist tropes.
An explanation why I get so upset when I’m told to “pick my battles.”
Lastly, StumbleUpon is wonderful, unexpected casual misogyny is not.
Here I wrote about different things. I’m starting a new Web site on the truth about what’s been going on with my city’s police commission b/c of all the blatant revisionist history and outright lying going on the past several months. Also trying to find alternatives to filing complaints.
Also, about a 15 year old girl who was beat by a deputy inside a jail cell and caught on camera. The video’s pretty shocking. The deputy has been charged with some degree of assault.
What’s tricky about “what about teh menz” isn’t that anti-feminism/patriarchy doesn’t hurt men. Instead it’s that the hurt is usually indoctrinated so we don’t know we’re doing it, it’s usually self-inflicted so we could stop it if we recognized what we were doing, and, worse, when it hurts us it tends to hurt women disproportionately worse so it’s not like we deserve a lot of sympathy. I wrote about what I think is a classic example of the problem in “Patriarchy Hurts Everybody… Disproportionately.”
For some reason I’m shamelessly pleased with “Significant Others”, which I think *very* nicely illustrates differences researchers are always finding between men and women.
And while it might not even have been from the past week I want to really, really promote Amanda’s Dangerous young women who know themselves. There was a lot more attention paid to the cool (and eponymous, I think) final paragraphs but the “under my thumb” section awesomely scrutinizes bedrock stereotypes about libido, gender, and power.
figleaf
I wrote about the government’s new “healthy marriage” initiative.
I also have a post entitled “Compassion is a Renewable Resource,” refuting the illogical notion that caring about one cause means apathy about all others.
I’m thankful that my parents never disparaged my looks, and sad that many other women have not been so lucky.
We all discussed feminist books in the Harpy Seminar.
Cheers!
Good Day All: I’ve written about how women put everyone ahead of themselves and how in this economy that could be devasating in: Not Waiting on the Gov to Save You
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/mental-health-and-promiscuity/
I wrote a piece about working in mental health and my issues with using “promiscuity” as a diagnostic criteria and why I think it is never a good idea
I’ve got a post up on being a good ally (starting from the premise of being a good trans ally, but I think it works in a lot of contexts), as well as more on transphobia in the blogosphere. (A small victory this time!)
For people who are interested, the fifth and final part of my antisemitism series is up. The first couple of sentences:
Dammit, my last comment went straight to moderation :P
I wrote about Amnesty International’s “Rape is Cheaper than Bullets” campaign, what giving cheese sandwiches to children whose parents can’t or won’t pay for school lunches teaches children, and this week’s episode of Dollhouse. I also marked Rare Disease Day with a personal story about anti-thrombin deficiency.
What excites me most, however, is that my first book of poems, Magdalene & the Mermaids is now available from Paper Kite Press. These are poems written out of my own recovery from sexual assault.
I wrote a short post about how I got one of my high school guy friend’s to realize that his Facebook status was sexist.
And then today I put up a blog-a-versary post to celebrate one year of blogging at Female Impersonator. :)
On my TransGriot blog this week I wrote a post about body issues from a transwoman’s perspective called ‘Women Come In All Shapes And Sizes’
Here’s what the ESC has been thinking about and doing this week:
That Michael Savage has such a deep and intuitive understanding of women, doesn’t he?
Some parents in the UK are horrified because the fact that the host of a popular children’s show happens to be disabled might actually force them to have a real conversation with their kids.
And a lovely conservative group in Kansas has asked the library in Topeka to restrict access to certain books about sex so that only patrons who are 18 and over can take them out. There are four books on the list, and they’re pretty random choices.
We’ve also launched a new cafepress store, because we just couldn’t bury our feelings about the Bristol Palin/Greta Van Susteren interview any longer.
Can anyone direct me to a good feminist critique/rant/takedown of that new show “Dollhouse”? It seemed pretty over the top misogynist, even for Hollywood/TV.
This week, we hold a special roundtable about the murder of Aasiya Hassan, ask if there’s anything “desi” about Desi Dolls, discuss sexual fetishization of Malaysian women, examine the reactions to two new female judges in the West Bank, review Love in a Headscarf, blast Sally Quinn’s racism and sexism against Gulf women, and link like there’s no tomorrow.
I’ve got a piece about our priorities in Basketball, football or the poor and the sick
One about Cancer Fraud that makes me alternately sad and sick.
And a brief memorial to Clusterfook who has passed from cancer after a long battle.
this week, I praised the awesomeness of documentary filmmaker Megan Mylan, called out Bill’Orielly on his intolerances, and included some geurilla girls wisdom about Women’s History Month.
http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-one-took-any-red-carpet-pictures-of.html
http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-honor-of-womens-history-month.html
http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/02/intolerant.html
I had a pretty ordinary week. My big thing is the release of my novel, GLAD HANDS. Entry is not work safe.
It’s a gay romance set in a balkanized future America, which includes countries where gays are automatically executed or “cured,” but also includes countries with women leaders.
This week I spread the word about a petition to end Joe Arpaio, rejoiced that the Feds will no longer be raiding medical marijuana dispensaries, shared info on Green Day’s new album, discussed my married but non-monogamous sex life and the sex party I was going to this weekend, spread the word about a writing prompt from My Ecydsis, shared criticisms of the movie Milk, and its associated Osacars speeches, and revealed what actor is playing “Alpha” on Dollhouse.
Scats, Hoyden About Town had some critical discussion of Dollhouse.
Would society be better off without love?
Is feminism a necessary condition for communism?
Pornography is a confusing issue.
Why do we have immigration controls?
I wrote out a beautiful post and it disappeared when I hit “submit”! :(
This will be shorter… This week I revealed who is playing Alpha on Dollhouse, critisized Milk, discussed non-monogamy and sex parties, shared an article on the upcoming Green Day album, rejoiced that the feds will no longer be raiding medical marijuana dispensaries, and asked anyone who can to help stop Joe Arpaio.
I reviewed the polyamory documentary “When Two Won’t Do”, which I showed at my sex-positive documentary series in order to stimulate discussion about consensual non-monogamy. I also posted my initial thoughts about Daniel Bergner’s new book about alternative sexuality, “The Other Side of Desire”, and I will be posting an interview with Bergner soon!
I broke down Governor Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s big speech last week and explained just how nonsensical his ideas are:
Jindal Proves He’s Not the Next Obama
Comrade PhysioProf has written about lecture course pedagogy, Bobby Jindal, and the relationship between religious authority and reality.
I love all these links on this thread every week!
Breast-feeding protest in West Asheville, NC after breast-feeding mother is exiled from Denny’s
Feminism and religion for Ash Wednesday
Elizabeth Taylor’s birthday! (important feminist event, of course)
I wrote about adjuncting and the academic labor system.
Hi, all—I love this blog and am now officially de-lurking for a suitably shameless reason. I just started a blog of my own and kicked things off with some brief observations on the opera trope and the politics of visibility in Milk.
whatsername, your post on Milk is fantastic, and I’ve taken the liberty of adding a link to it in mine.
An ad for milk in Maxim Magazine encourages men to objectify themselves as well as the ladies they’re oogling:
http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/02/28/male-self-objectification/
Self-objectification for everyone!
Jenna of J2 Jewelry creates “rad jewelry for rad people.”
http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/j2-jewelry.html
TotusMel Tats offers original and unique needle tatted jewelry and accessories, including some really gorgeous masks created by artist Pamela Quevedo.
http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/02/totusmel-tats.html
Ayumi Horie throws a bowl on the potters wheel using no water. Ayumi developed this technique as a student at Alfred in 1995 and has been using it ever since to make bowls, dishes, and plates.
http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/02/ayumi-horie-dry-throwing-bowl.html
I’ve been thinking for quite some time about why I continue to read and come back to trans fiction of questionable quality, and I recently wrote another post on that subject. I hoping to eventually consolidate my thoughts into one cohesive thesis, but this latest post explores the draw of seeing sympathetic characters in ‘trans’ situations (even if the characters would not identify as trans.
One post that is half personal journal entry (you can ignore that half) and half “What the fuck is up with Bobby Jindal?”
And another post called “Conservatives hate you.”
Pink Scare gets tough on Obama!
This week we learned about the Accountability Now coalition, a PAC formed by “bloggers and labor activists” to keep Obama accountable to the apparently most progressive elements of the Democratic Party. But the new coalition assumes that Obama is a true progressive at heart – which, as T shows, he’s really not.
Obama challenged every American to commit to one year of post-secondary education or training. Nice thought and everything, Arvilla says, but how the hell are working-class people supposed to pay for it?
I’m sorry to be more needy than productive once again, but I do get such great feedback from feministe readers.
I put out a call for suggestions for women’s memoirs.
This week I have written about depression (there’s likely going to be a couple more posts on this theme in the next few days):
Depression and Depression and “Bodily Integrity”
I have also finally gone “live” with selling my brains, by which I mean the product of my mental labour: Snowdrop Explodes Music. Please buy all my music!
Inspired by the controversy over the Mandy Van Deven and Brittany Shoot post at Professor What If, I co-hosted a discussion about women of color working in the feminist blogosphere with Professor Tracey from Aunt Jemima’s Revenge.
We were joined by Faith from Acts of Faith, Renee from Womanist Musings, and Monica from Transgriot. We talked about how black women bloggers are marginalized within the mainstream femisphere and sometimes the black blogosphere; how transgendered black women bloggers are marginalized in LGBT communities; support and lack of support in the black blogosphere; whether WOC bloggers need white allies or should go it alone. As you can imagine, with such amazing, take-no-prisoners, truth tellers involved, it was a great conversation–frank, sometimes controversial, and never dull.
[Note: The focus of our discussion did eventually narrow to black, female bloggers specifically--I would imagine because of the voices represented.]
Listen.
I wrote my very first blog post! And it is about the soon-to-be-introduced rights of British IVF mothers to name whoever they chose as their legal co-parent: and how frothinly angry the Daily Mail is about this.
I wrote a post about a great NYT graphic that shows the wage gap broken down by sector, as applied to women lawyers and looking at what “comparable” jobs are– including unpacking how a woman’s “personal choices” are often used as a cloak for institutional obstacles to advancement and retention: http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/optout/archive/2009/03/01/nyt-why-is-her-paycheck-smaller.aspx
My friend Kara and I made a parody of bad sex ed, Cosmo articles, and the general oversimplification and warped nature of sex and relationship attitudes and advice that permeate our culture. We call it “Sex Hacks”. We teach you how to “hack the fuck”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhoqsLstsUI
I wrote my very first blog post! And it is about the soon-to-be-introduced rights of British IVF mothers to name whoever they chose as their legal co-parent: and how frothinly angry the Daily Mail is about this.
http://newsflash-astar.blogspot.com/
I just put up a post about how the Global Seed Vault in Norway is just a cover for transnational corporations like Monsanto to control the food supply for the whole planet through genetic manipulation and patent law and how we can protect our food sovereignty by saving the seeds.
I wrote a couple of IEPs.
I wrote a post in my new blog that shows what happens when companies don’t train their workers. Can you say “unrealistic expectations”? It’s a reference to David Shipler’s superb new book “The Working Poor.”
(Anyone who clicks over will find out who I am, but who cares. I’m not a troll. Not on purpose, anyway.)
this is my first time in self promotion sunday (so i’m a little nervous). i’m posting one woman a day every day for woman’s history month. i started the month with Hilary Clinton: http://winsomeicarus.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-one-hilary-clinton.html i had a few other posts leading to it, including my response to Mental Floss’ top literary heroines. :)
My co-blogger wrote a nice analysis of Jindal’s speech: Jindal Proves He’s Not the Next Obama
I describe my experiences in attending a film on polyamory and the discussion afterward in my post A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Polyamory Movie. The film is part of the Sex+++ Film Series at Hull House in Chicago put on by Clarisse Thorn.
-gadfly
Always late to the party I am…
This past week I talked about foreign language learning as a form of privilege.
I attempt to start a conversation on words and how they affect sex workers and why allies should pay attention.
Finally, a funny thing happens when I finally got to watch the Oscars.
I wrote about the importance of listening to people when they tell you they’re oppressed.
I wrote a piece about the miserably mismanaged domestic violence storyline in the comic strip “Mark Trail” and how to contact the writer/artist and publisher.