Friday Random Ten – the Help Jill’s Dad Find Teh Cool edition
My dad just got his first ipod (or as he calls it, his IPOD) and has expressed his disappointment with my recent failures to post FRTs, because it means he doesn’t know what to download. So this one is for you, old man. The rest of you know what to do: Set your mp3 players [...]
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Where are the women in the Israeli cabinet?
I know it’s a small photo, but see if you can spot the difference between the top image and the bottom one: Not only were the women photoshopped out by an ultra-Orthodox paper, but they were replaced by men.
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A Feministe Bloggers Meet Up
Okay, so as you’ll notice we’re missing quite a few (read: a majority) of us, so sadly WAM! was far from a full meet up of Feministe bloggers — oh, how I wish! But, all the same, after nearly a year of blogging here, it was totally awesome getting to finally meet both Jill and [...]
...read moreUnions, Women and Fair Labor Practices: Why the Employee Free Choice Act is a Feminist Issue
A guest-post by Sarah Jaffe So our economy is falling apart, right? And the government keeps bailing out these massive financial firms while talking Very Sternly to the auto company CEOs about how they need to restructure and cut costs. Of course, the number one cost CEOs and reporters love to talk about is the [...]
...read moreBy Any Other Name
I was just directed to this article at Nerve by Hugh Ryan, called By Any Other Name: How My LGBT Students Taught Me to Love a Forbidden Word. You should know, before heading over and/or reading further here, that it’s about the C-word. A word that a lot of us as women, and as feminists, [...]
...read moreBenefit for a Sexual Assault Survivor: Help if You Can
A Connecticut woman was recently raped, beaten, and left in the woods by a co-worker (serious trigger warning on that link); she survived only by pretending to be dead. Her friends are putting together a benefit to raise money for her medical bills, legal fees, and counseling. As far as I know she’s still hospitalized. [...]
...read moreIowa Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
This just in: Iowa’s Supreme Court unanimously upheld the right of same-sex couples to marry. “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,” the justices said in a summary of their decision. The court rules that gay marriage would [...]
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Feministe’s Next Top Troll, March Madness Edition – Elite Eight, Bracket Two
It’s March Madness, Feministe-style. We’ve narrowed down our latest trolls from 16 to 8; those eight are divided into four brackets. Vote for your favorites in Bracket Two now. Potentially triggering troll comments below the image.
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