Female Noir: Rewriting a Genre
As I’ve mentioned before (and, as is obvious to anyone who’s read my blog,) I have a bit of a thing for mysteries and hardboiled noir. I’m by no means an expert on either genre, admittedly, but it’s a hobby interest of mine. I just really love the way gender plays out in them: in [...]
...read moreShocker! Tiller’s Murderer Going to Trial
Scott Roeder, the man who murdered Dr. George Tiller inside of his church, is going to trial. Not a huge surprise. The court ruled that there was enough evidence to warrant a trial. Oh, you mean because Roeder brutally gunned down an innocent man inside of a church surrounded by friends and family of said [...]
...read moreFrom Gaming to Comics…
Sheesh, considering the awesome comment thread that I am totally loving on my post on gaming, I thought I’d move on to comic books. I was just going to copy my Epic Comic Post over to here, but it is long, so instead, I am just going to use the power of linkage…trust me, Feministe [...]
...read more7 Key American Sex Worker Activist Projects
A few weeks ago I gave a talk about with this title at an event called Interesting Amsterdam, and I thought it would be worth reproducing the bullet points and some examples here. The sex industry is big and weird and varied, and there are a lot of different issues that face people who are [...]
...read moreSex Worker Stuff in Australia: Queensland
One of the odd little facets of sex industry law in Australia is that, due to having a relatively small number of states in our continent-covering-country, we have a different model of sex industry legislation in almost every state. New South Wales has decriminalised sex work, demonstrably the best option for sex workers. Victoria, the [...]
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“Hey baby, why all the aggro?”
And now for something completely different… I have a confession to make. I’m a huge geek. In fact, I am a gamer geek. Ah yes, from the days of table top D&D in someone’s basement in high school up unto present times, I have always loved games and being a gamer. Dragon Con? Origins? Gen [...]
...read moreOpen Thread: When Art and Ideals Collide
When we look at art, pop culture, and media on feminist and progressive blogs, sometimes it seems all too easy to force the discussion into a simple good/bad debate: See this movie because it has a strong female character. Don’t read this book because it’s full of stereotypes. This work is feminist. This film is [...]
...read moreAmid War in U.S. Health Care and Afghanistan: Midwifing Life
Cross-posted at RH Reality Check I received two emails in my inbox today. One was from The Big Push for Midwives, asking for help in advocating for greater access to Certified Professional Midwifery (CPM) nationally. The group is basically petitioning Congress to add CPMs to the Medicaid provider list in order to make midwifery an [...]
...read moreBetter Than A Magic Eight Ball
Last week I got an email in my personal mailbox from a high school debater who found Feministe while researching the Hyde Amendment, who asked, “I have one question: ‘What’s with the toddler with the gun?’ How is that representative of feministe movements?” I ignored the message, you know, because I have a rather busy [...]
...read moreSex Work and Marriage
Okay, so Hexy already pointed out this story, the tale of a Gov. Official in Florida who was fired after he married a porn performer. The reason given? His choice of a spouse did not live up to the “Good Family Values” the city of Ft. Myers FL is trying to maintain… Now, the cynic [...]
...read moreSenate panel endorses Sotomayor
Except only one Republican voted for the endorsement. That is quite frankly embarassing. Sotomayor is a moderate judge with a whole lot of judicial experience. It speaks volumes about the GOP’s general arrogance and stubbornness that all but one Republican on the committee chose not to endorse her. Republican critics of the judge expressed displeasure [...]
...read moreAnti-gay professor will not teach at NYU
A follow-up to the NYU Law/Dr. Li-ann Thio drama: Apparently Dr. Thio has decided not to come and teach at NYU, citing hostility from students. I put in my two cents about Dr. Thio here. I actually think it’s good that NYU didn’t ask her to withdraw, and that instead students took the lead in [...]
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