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had a mini-breakdown this week and ended up writing about my anxiety issues. bleh
I wrote about the cultural phenomenon of “That’s What She Said”
http://www.caraherself.com/2009/04/03/thats-what-she-said/
This week, I reviewed The Purity Myth and also had some thoughts about Freud’s Five Lectures in Psycho-analysis, which I read for a graduate course in intellectual history.
I commented on Courtney Martin’s The End of the Women’s Movement and my housemate Hanna had a smackdown for historian David Starkey, who complained that women historians have ruined history.
I also gathered a few recent links on women’s bodies and the cultural policing thereof that I feel deserve some attention.
Slow week for me. I wrote about my thoughts on a Hathor Legacy review of Sports Night.
Three recent posts:
A planned screening of a porn movie on a Maryland campus has moviemakers, state legislators, and student government candidates jockeying for the spotlight.
Students at a Minnesota college protest a Soulja Boy concert because of sexual violence in his lyrics.
And a recap of responses to Kyle Payne’s return to blogging after he spent six months in jail for sexually assaulting an intoxicated student under his care when he was an RA.
This week, I wrote about the fallacy behind PMDD.
http://vaginadrum.com/2009/04/move-over-doogie/
Not every day you get to say this, but I wrote about going to see your President make a speech in Prague today.
I was raised in a nonreligious family, so I’ve always considered myself an atheist to some extent. I talk about my attempts at prayer when I was younger and my reaction to the power of prayer in general.
I also ask if context matters when dealing with songs about controversial subjects. Why is it okay for a group to criticize its own members, but we get angry when an outsider criticizes us?
I finally got back into blogging this week and wrote a post on how women Take up Space (http://feministgal.blogspot.com/2009/04/taking-up-space.html) and another on an Oprah article (http://feministgal.blogspot.com/2009/03/oprahs-why-women-are-leaving-men-for.html) :)
I finally got back into blogging this week and wrote a post on how women Take up Space and another on an Oprah article :)
(sorry my first comment didn’t link…?)
Milk Skimmed: Dr. Tomás Almaguer Speaks About The Roles Of Men Of Color In The Biopic Milk : Looking at the racist treatment of MOC in the movie Milk
Michelle Obama Reborn: Why the continual comparison of MO to Lady Di and Jackie O is wrong.
Dickiest Of The World Unite: Why we need to stop shaming women for having sex.
Too Hard On The White Folk: Looking at why calling someone a reverse racist is ridiculous and why it is important to challenge racism no matter who does it.
We were away for part of the week attending the WAM! conference and exploring Boston, so we scheduled a couple of posts while we were going through internet withdrawal – a look at what happens when good toys go bad, a Women’s History Month roundup, and a “breaking news” update for April 1st.
As soon as we got home, we had to share the story of a group of our fellow members of the International Women’s Writing Guild finishing a book for a dying friend.
And then, of course, the tale of our Boston trip, complete with lots of WAM! shoutouts, links, goofy pictures, bad TV reviews, and random details. And dessert.
I stayed up late writing a piece on the colonialist mindset in one part of the renewable energy biz.
Retired doctor carries out GRS on children who are then trafficked into prostitution
Responded to the New Yorker story about prisons on WIMN blog:
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=1255
Updated First Guns:
http://www.firstguns.tumblr.com
I’m in the middle of looking at the representations of disabled bodies in logos for disability organisations, and at which groups are excluded from those representations.
And Girls Read Comics (not my blog, but I like it!) has noticed that Marvel’s idea of marketing merchandise to “females” consists largely of tee-shirts with “I {heart} BOYS THAT ROCK” on them, lip gloss, and heart-shaped necklaces. The company’s prime consideration?
My interview with Kathryn Joyce, author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, turned out rather well, if I do say so myself.
Check it out and make Nat a happy editrix.
Single gal, travels alone, sometimes feels all squishy about it.
It’s not really a blog post — but I did release an upgrade to my Recipe Sharing Database this week.
If you’ve already got a copy of it, Here are the upgrade instructions. If you don’t have it already and you like cooking at all, you might consider checking it out. It’s been a project of mine for the last few years. Totally free, no spying/selling your information or anything like that.
Hm… Preview is a little funky. I hope this posts ok.
Sheesh. I’ll figure out how to link someday. Here it is:
http://watchoutworldimatwentysomething.blogspot.com/2009/04/can-you-see-this.html
I started a new feature on my blog FML FAIL
It’s about all the examples you can see of why feminism is needed even when looked over fun websites
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/new-feature-fml-fail/
An evening with me: political angst, hot pockets, and the success of friends.
http://hardtobehuman.blogspot.com/2009/04/evening-with-me.html
I wrote a blog post for Feminist Peace Network that discusses Time Magazine’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People and the very low representation of women on the list–this year less than 20% of the contenders are women! http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/04/02/once-again-time-magazine-tells-us-that-women-arent-very-influential/.
Kudos and ty to Jill for Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday!
Talked about how that poor husband was “provoked beyond reason” into killing his wife. Classic victim blaming.
Also discussed Pamela Izevbekhai’s bid to save her daughters from FGC and the sexism and racism surrounding the case.
Homebrewing beer.
A response to some criticisms of the way feminism handles body image issues.
A small little post about a couple of links floating around the feminist blogosphere.
And a very long post about that guy who wrote that shit about how women getting the right to vote ruined the world. I spend a bit of time making fun of him, but I mainly talk about the false dichotomy of emotion vs. logic.
Find out what happens when a feminist tests Schick’s new pube trimmer. Plus, thoughts on the latest virgin to auction off her hymen.
I posted a lot considering how busy I thought I was going to be.
First, Link between periods and shopping?
Then, an annoying/sexist Heineken beer commercial that reminded me of why I try not to watch much T.V.
Also, a British study claims that sisters make people happy. I’m not convinced yet.
And, yesterday was the launch of a website by a woman I have worked with on my college campus and admire very much. Here’s my post about And It Was Wrong.
Sorry: my last link…And It Was Wrong.
I’ve got three posts up from this week: Feminist Quiz Time!, Lessons Learned from WAM!09, and I Hear It’s Immigration Awareness Month.
I’ve got a piece about women’s sports (and whether it’s sexist to only support men’s sports).
Also a bit about trans* rights, bathrooms and Focus on the Family.
And finally, inspired in part by the Obamicon-esque image of Lovell Mixon that’s floating around, a post on image citation.
I’ve been trying to articulate why I think consent is necessary but not sufficient for equality of power in hetero-templated sexual relationships. It just feels as though by focusing on consent as a result… a response to *someone else’s* request… we take the emphasis, and the agency, away from consent as an *active decision.* There’s also the cultural assumptions that women’s decisions about sex exist only inside the scope of men’s desire for it.
So far it’s
- The No-Sex Class and Consent: Whether, Wherefore, Yes, But What About When?
- More About Decisions and Consent
- Consent vs. Deciding: Getting vs. Making</a.
It’s all early days and it’s still a big mess and yes, I’m going to get Yes Means Yes this afternoon and start reading it. But I’m pretty sure there really is a pony in there somewhere so I want to keep digging.
figleaf
Woman Sues MTA Officials After They Ignored Her Cries for Help As She Was Raped
http://snipurl.com/f9num
Rocket Fuel in Baby Formula Proves Why Breastmilk Is Safest
http://snipurl.com/fabi3
Loser Dad Takes Daughter to Store As He Robs It
http://snipurl.com/f5ubu
I blogged about why I’m grateful for second wave feminism, despite its faults:
http://bellareve.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/in-defense-of-the-second-wave/
At Yes Means Yes Blog, I was inspired by an Onion piece about reticence with talking about female genitals, that Jill picked up on, and by conversations with other parents, to say something about naming body parts what they are in Wipe Your Shame-Cave, Honey. It got picked up by Stumbleupon, and is now one of our most-read posts. The post links to one of my early posts, about parenting and how to teach responsible sexuality to teens, titled What To Tell The Next Generation.
Before that, I wrote about the growing and monstrous practice of charging young women with child porn offenses for circulating digital photos of themselves in It Became Necessary To Destroy The Town To Save It. This piece heavily links Harper Jean Tobin’s writing on the same subject at Polymorphous Perversity, and in dialog with her over on the Feministing Community (where I cross-posted), I tapped out an exemption to the federal child porn statute that would go a long way to fixing the problem. She ran it on her blog, so I put it up on mine as well.
I got a lovely surprise on the form of a rape joke in an icon on a craft networking site. So I messaged the owner of the icon, and the moderators of the site, and then I blogged about it .
“Political correctness” isn’t the new censorship, but is it the new ettiquette?
Sometimes, the most democratic thing to do is is to exclude people.
Traditional political theory (specifically, the public/private distinction, and social contract theory) is political theory by the privileged, for the privileged, and of the privileged.
After the clashes in central london last week, I wrote some posts on different perspectives on police tactics.
I’ve been writing and editing for the nonprofit site Women’s Voices For Change. Check out this post about real estate and the business of renting clothing to movie productions.
I spent half my week moving to WordPress so I could start blocking a really nasty anti-feminist commenter who’d latched onto me. (I guess he didn’t hear that Feministe was giving prizes for the most outstanding troll?) So my blog, Kittywampus, has a new address.
My favorite post of the week was a meditation on love as an act of inference (to quote novelist Emily Listfield). I also wrote on how it’s antiquated gender attitudes in religion – much more than liberal education – that are alienating young people from the faith of their childhood.
KCA fashion sexism: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/03/kca-fashion-grades-sexism-even-on-red.html
cats are affected by body image, too: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/issues-with-body-image-not-just-human.html
part two of gender and sexuality in mieville’s Iron Council: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/gender-and-sexuality-identity-and.html
a short story about my grandfather: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/poppa-and-sidewinder.html
and a sonnet i wrote to my fiance’s dick: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-never-was-member-so-defined.html
part two of gender and sexuality in china mieville’s iron council: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/gender-and-sexuality-identity-and.html
a short story about my grandpa: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/poppa-and-sidewinder.html
and a sonnet i wrote to my fiance’s penis: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-never-was-member-so-defined.html
also, cats and body image: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/issues-with-body-image-not-just-human.html
KCA fashion and sexism: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/03/kca-fashion-grades-sexism-even-on-red.html
On racism and misogyny in So You Think You Can Dance (focussing on the Australian version).
Say, we haven’t filled our daily quota of dehumanisation! Let’s go do that then. is on a transphobic article about a generally oppressive TV show, Ladette to Lady.
I posted a round-up of my favourite posts from around the feminist blogosphere in March.
Lastly, I posted a Call for Submissions for the 12th Down Under Feminists Carnival. It’s in May, covering blog posts from April. If you’re writing or reading anything good from Australian or New Zealand feminists, submit away! Thanks everyone.
I’ve organized a new Chicago sex-positive meetup: [ http://clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/introducing-chicago-pleasure-salon/ ]
I reported on the last two films from my sex-positive film series, “Sex, Disability and Videotape” and “Orgasmic Women: 13 Selfloving Divas”: [ http://clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/sex-positive-documentary-report-5-sex-disability-videotape-and-orgasmic-women-13-selfloving-divas/ ]
Promoting Little Light:
Exciting news – my blog was listed by the national newspaper as one of Australia’s top feminist blogs.
In terms of actual content, I wrote:
The New Young Domestic Goddess: is happiness found in a rolling pin?
and
Not all articles about “hooking up” have to be patronising and alarmist – David Brooks wrote one once which was actually quite good.
Talked about transwoman Avon Wilson, the first transgender patient at the now closed Johns Hopkins Gender Program
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/musing-about-avon-wilsons-blended-life.html
Also have a post going up tomorrow on TransGriot commemorating the 100th anniversary of Matthew Henson being the first man at the North Pole and commented on the 41st Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassination in Memphis
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/dr-king-assassination-41-years-later.html
What’s new on Women’s Glib this week…
Phoebe asks why oh why all we hear about Michelle Obama is what she’s wearing.
Silvia feels guilty.
Shira on discovering Lilith magazine and bridging Jewish and feminist ideology.
I reposted an obnoxiously misogynistic ad for headache meds, via Copyranter.
Joel discusses the role of women in the changing economy.
I wrote a post on the sexual submissiveness in Ciara’s new video featuring Justin Timberlake and another about Hapshetsut and the myth of evil stepmothers.
And this week, I will be writing posts on feminist theology for Easter.
Gaby of Hopeless Handmade Lingerie specialises in high end lingerie and sleepwear, handcrafted from silk, organic cotton and the softest bamboo jersey, with exquisite detailing and vintage flair. Her mission is to provide garments that empower the wearer and celebrate the female form. http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/hopeless-handmade-lingerie.html
Women’s History: Abigail Powers Fillmore http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/womens-history-abigail-powers-fillmore.html
clever nettle’s estate sale is a curated vintage shop selling mostly clothing, shoes, accessories- all things wearable! Looks inspired by the seasons, fancy runway clothing and classic vintage. http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/clever-nettles-estate-sale.html
This week’s posts include:
Why doesn’t she leave? A response to the recent murder-suicide in Pierce County, and what people really ought to be asking instead.
Cops Arrest Rape Victim Yet Face No Penalty about yet another story that illustrates why rape is an underreported crime.
G-20 and Gender: Time Magazine’s Problematic Portrayal of Michelle Obama: sure it’s great that she could pull off that cardigan, but there’s a lot more to her than the US media cares to talk about.
Dividing Students, Rich from Poor: on the use of ability to pay in college admissions
and a review of Dollhouse: Needs
Two posts of possible interest:
1. On Blogging vs. Facebook.
2. Seeking advice for a speech I must give to wonderfully deserving honors students.
Men’s Rights brawl at my place!
The usual suspects. (strong stomach required)
I started a new blog that aims to dismantle oppressive academese in feminist (and others) theory and in general be a good resource for anyone who wants to talk about all sorts of theory! Here’s the manifesto.
Critique of the new “revolutionary right”: Glenn Beck and his partner in lunacy, Michelle Bachmann.
Bachmann: http://southsidepolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/science-and-gop.html
Beck: http://southsidepolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/crazy-train-is-getting-crowded.html
Okay, so i may have offended a few this week. The first was all cancer humor, I know it’s a bit twisted but if the cancer blog can’t have jokes then who the hell can. There are about five or so on the site.
Then an article about the the Brassage and another To meat or not to meat.
Not normally a commenter here, but a big fan of the site.
Today I wrote the introductory post for a blog I’m keeping as part of a course project. The class is called Representation and the Body and my project topic is the social meaning of nudity.
http://pleasedontriot.blogspot.com/2009/03/bored-already.html
The blog is a bit sparse at the moment (no other posts), but I hope to have more posts soon.
I chatted about Green Day’s American Idiot being turned into a musical.
Posted some great pictures of our favorite Dr. Horrible stars from the Streamys (as well as who won what).
I spread the word about a recent panel a Professor of mine worked on in San Francisco about the movie “Milk” called Milk Skimmed.
I also shared a story I read about what I’m calling “Jihad emeralds”, which are basically blood diamonds except their emeralds and they’re funding terrorist organizations.
And I also shilled for a friend on a project she’s working on to raise awareness about child soldiers.
Fat politics through the lens of the princess archetype.
Finally got back to posting this week after a long trip! I showcased the artwork of Cindy Sherman and Dyke Action Machine. I also wrote on an article in Oprah magazine about women who leave men for other women, and Brianna posted a critical look at the musical Avenue Q.
I wrote about the Southern punk scene, general Faggotry and this thing that we call “community”.
I also ranted about general Faggotry, general Faggotry + AIDS, glitter, dildos and hickeys.
What a good 2 days it’s been!
Feminist Reviews this week…
Breaking Poems by Suheir Hammad: Hammad embraces life at the border, refusing to translate her identity to fit a bounded-identity construct of what it means to be Palestinian or American…Exploring the theme that wars are fought on women’s bodies, Hammad writes, “in gaza still flesh is ashed/wa smoked wa denied/a women’s chest caves in/smoke escapes legs.” (Wa means “and” in Arabic). In fact, the violence in Gaza is a constant topic in her poetry, summoning us to act and react as she evokes images of exploded bodies, rubble in place of homes, and empty stomachs.
Slumdog Millionaire (or I Want to Sue the Indian Government: Memories of Gods, Lovers, and Slumdogs): As a little girl growing up in Iran, and like millions of others living in Eastern countries, I loved Bollywood movies. They were all colour and glamour and rosy pictures of India, that heaven on earth; the country of love and flowers…We all wanted to steal the heart of the main actor, Amitabh Bachchan. I would have done anything (and I mean anything) to get his attention if he ever showed up in my neighbourhood in Tehran! In that way, I was just like little Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire.
Natalie Tran/CommunityChannel: The reigning queen of Australian YouTubers, she is a young, fresh-faced woman with self-deprecating humor who picks on the mundane snags of life that often get under our skin. It’s a Seinfeld approach to humor, except this channel features a smart-mouth Vietnamese woman who begins each video with a quirky wave and smile.
Supergirls Speak Out: Reading the stories inside is one warning shot after another to parents, teachers, and others in our society who keep telling our kids—girls and boys—that if you don’t do well in elementary school, you can’t get into the top high school and then you might as well start picking out safe schools for college.
A response to Maggie Gallagher on marriage: http://notfrisco2.com/leones/?p=4255
Follow-up post re: Steve Harvey’s misogynist rant “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” in which we explore the concept of buying the cow vs. getting the milk for free, attempt to decipher confusing cookie/vagina metaphors, I get called a whore in comments and somebody takes a Blingee entirely too seriously:
The Cow is Not for Sale
Enjoy!
Wow, I am post 8^2. Sorry, I was busy yesterday!
This past week has been mostly non-completely-original material, a lot of replies-turned-posts and links and the like. But fun rants and interesting stuff nonetheless.
I was one of many fans of the Onion’s Hoo-ha doctor article.
Then, three replies-turned posts. One on these mythical breastfeeding bullies I read so much about in comments sections, one on insurance companies not covering maternity, and one on the BS outrage over contraception coverage in the stimulus plan, revisited.
I quoted a poem about the burdens of gender expectations on both males and females.
There are millions of possible genders; according to one source, there are 2.8363×10278 or 283 unnovemgintillion possible combinations of gender terms, and that’s only including English words.
I’ve also been wondering how to get people to rethink their own gender, so they can understand why some of us identify as something more complex than just “man” or “woman.”
And, on a more personal note, why I can’t be a girl.
Tips on Surviving Karoake in a Redneck Bar. A public service message on how to prevent the pitchforks and stake burning.
Monogamy Doesn’t Work.
http://www.twogirls-onesite.com/?p=229
‘Nuff said.