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Malia called a street whore at the free Republic: Looking at the why a conservative blog found it acceptable to attack a child based in race and gender.
Racism Is A White Male Issue Right: Looking at the collusion of white women with racism and how it gets ignored by so-called leftist. Also looks at why what happens to MOC must be discussed.
In search of western eyes: Looking at the internalization of Whiteness by Asian women and why conversations about race need to move beyond the White/Black binary.
Homelessness Under the Neon Lights of Vegas: Examining the way the homeless are made invisible though the city sells itself as the land of dreams.
Sunday Shame: I just jizzed in my pants edition: Looking ridiculous pop culture that people embrace.
Bridget Jones 3: Looking at the stereotypes played out by the series and the harm in suggesting that a baby is all women need to complete thier lives.
Gynosaurus rex: a post about experience with gynecologists – the difference between male and female ones, their attitudes toward prescribing birth control, etc.
A small post about the idea of the male as default and how it pervades even an innocent, fun video game (complete with annoying commenter who thinks he knows everything about Japan and denies the idea of the male as default).
I might have linked to this post last week, but I guess there’s no harm in linking to it again. It’s a review of 2 books and the Kindle, the relevance to feminism being that one of the reviews is of that book about the Quiverfull movement.
Obama’s speech to the NAACP regarding LGBT intolerance isn’t going to change a lot of views when the “black community” as a whole is imploding on itself.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/obamas-warning-to-civil-rights.html
A serious discussion on what the black community is – and is not.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/black-community-what-black-community.html
Cynthia McKinney’s triumphant return to Gaza less than 2 weeks after being kidnapped & illegally detained.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/mandela-would-be-proud-mckinney-returns.html
My review of the excellent film Away We Go and why we’re all looking for home.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/away-we-go-when-you-run-towards.html
Society does not actively support single motherhood
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/society-does-not-actively-support.html
Discussing the dysfunctions within the black community is actively discouraged. Consider this the black woman’s version of ACT-UP!
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/consider-this-black-womans-version-of.html
I am calling for complete freedom and independence for black women to live a fulfilled life with support and encouragement and empowerment.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/if-wanting-best-lives-for-black-women.html
ACT-UP! has been on my mind lately for a reason.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/if-wanting-best-lives-for-black-women.html
I put up the 20th Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy.
I wrote my review of Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/
This week at Deeply Problematic was a little slow because I had family in town, but I managed to squeeze out the following:
Sorority Life on Facebook and the construction of female friendships, on an application/game that pits women against women in the spirit of materialism
Site Recommendation: Womanist Musings, a recommendation of Renee Martin’s site and recounting its influence on my feminism
Michael Jackson, in further review, reconsidering my harsh words on Jackson immediately after his death (since you really need to read more about MJ)
Kim Kardashian assures America that diamonds in Botswana are just dandy, responding to Kardashian’s sponsored claim that DeBeers diamonds are awesome and totes ethical.
Since this was a slow week, I also posted lots of pictures of my kitties August and Thurgood as Concentrated Cute filler.
Well, since it was mentioned in a previous post, I’m also participating in Blogathon. My charity is the Secular Student Alliance!
I am an atheist activist, and my dad thinks I’m in mortal peril of religious fundies attacking/raping/killing me. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be freaking out if I was a boy.
Things that make me angry – Exploiting vulvodynia patients – I found a post by a diet researcher & author who claims to have found the cause for vulvodynia (it’s a syndrome that loosely translates to “Painful vulva.”)
I analyzed the post & criticized it & the research that went into it, and the way the post is being used to market the author’s diet books & programs. I’m very skeptical of her claims & the way they’re being used.
I wrote about the 10 things I love about the new series 10 things I hate about you (feminism! rock band!) and the 4 Things I hate (Stereotypes about feminism! Bathroom panic! Lionizing of Nice Guys and Racism yet to come!)
And my co-blogger wrote about the confusing messages about teen sexuality on the bizarre series Secret Life of the American Teenager.
The past week didn’t contain as many posts, since I was away for a brief albeit glorious respite on Martha’s Vineyard. Anyway, I wrote about the following topics:
Racial and sexual slander of the Obama women, and the indelible silence of the feminst and Black blogospheres on the issue: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/once-again-silence/
Praising a young Black female pilot: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/girl-15-flies-in-to-honor-tuskegee-airmen-local-news-post-tribune/
Identity politics and white male privilege: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/whose-identity-politics/
The impact my family and me had on a White friend: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/touching-lives/
Snark, i,e. rudeness in the blogosphere: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/snark/
Ways to help defend yourself against emotional abuse: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/emotional-self-defense-class/
In which I rail against the fact that women as a group are held responsible for the behavior of individual women: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/my-vagina-is-not-a-universal-translator-and-other-stories/
And I got pulled over. While riding a scooter: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/rite-of-passage/
CBO Reports Health Care Reform Will Save Money
I have a breakdown of the Congressional Budget Office findings on the House plan for health care. I also look at the hysterical 4 page Republican response plan. (Tax cuts!)
Here’s this feminists click list
1. Congress seeks to end ban on needle exchange program (its about damn time) http://feministsforchoice.com/congress-seeks-to-end-ban-on-needle-exchange-funding.htm
2. Why push for c-sections are an attack on choice
http://feministsforchoice.com/push-for-c-sections-an-attack-on-choice.htm
3. A sassy perspective on Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the sexist double standard
http://feministsforchoice.com/sotomayor-the-sexist-double-standard.htm
4. Foxy lays it out at feministing on how to talk sex with your 7 yr old son
http://www.feministing.com/archives/016777.html
This week I changed the name of my blog and wrote about…
1) An experience with gender boxing at the camp I work at and in my childhood, and how I should have reacted.
2) Confronting my boss about hateful language.
3) Regina Benjamin’s weight and why we even care.
Politicians have pissed me off this week. I’ve written
A response to Charles Grassley’s comments about getting a job with the government to get health insurance.
A reality check to Tom Coburn
A call for assistance to a breast cancer patient who was fired from her job for being an atheist
And in honor of the new Harry Potter movie a short piece about Maggie Smith , what a Dame.
India’s Decriminalization of Sodomy to be Challenged about the Delhi High Court overturning a law which previously banned homosexual sex between consenting adults.
Two articles about women’s health in Kenya in Obama’s Kenyan Women and Kenya: Now or Never.
An article about seventeenth-century artist and rape survivor, Artemisia Gentileschi.
Power, sexism, and family in Rod Lurie’s newest film, Nothing but the Truth.
A new computer game based off of the children’s story Little Red Ridng Hood called “The Path,” with themes of girls’ sexuality and innocence.
This week at Deeply Problematic was a little slow because I had family in town, but I managed to squeeze out the following:
Sorority Life on Facebook and the construction of female friendships, on an application/game that pits women against women in the spirit of materialism
Site Recommendation: Womanist Musings, a recommendation of Renee Martin’s site and recounting its influence on my feminism
Michael Jackson, in further review, reconsidering my earlier harsh words on Jackson immediately after his death (since you really need to read more about MJ)
Kim Kardashian assures America that diamonds in Botswana are just dandy, responding to Kardashian’s sponsored claim that DeBeers diamonds are awesome and totes ethical.
Since this was a slow week, I also posted lots of pictures of my kitties August and Thurgood as Concentrated Cute filler.
My most important link this week is about the Rebirth of Feminist Carnival! A few of the ladies over at Female Impersonator decided to pick up where the old Carnival left off, and we are currently looking for submissions for the first edition, which will go up on July 29.
Please submit, and help us spread the word!
My blog turned two this week :)
Regret Part I: About my experience with endometriosis and its treatment. Part II will be about body image from a feminist perspective.
What does it mean to heal? Examining our assumptions about “healing” — about what makes a person “whole” and how they have their root in the ableist ideal body.
This week at The Jaded Hippy I brought you the Lateisha Green verdict, talked about a “stuff white people do” habit that I am guilty of, my thoughts on watching Sotomayor, and a really excellent round up of links.
I wrote a post!
Stephen Colbert is an it-getter. about his take on the Judge Sotomayor confirmations.
Enjoy!
A cry for help, I guess, and some thoughts about love.
Brian and I are trying to get City of Ladies up and running after a few weeks of inactivity. He did a Megapost about some of the stuff that went on while we were on unofficial hiatus, including Ricci, Sanford, and Iran; I wrote NIMBY Parents, about how to talk to liberal parents who react negatively if you come out as gay.
Tina Brown and Hillary Clinton’s Burqa: New article on GlobalComment critiques Tina Brown’s offensive, hyperbolic use of burqa to describe Hillary Clinton’s “invisible” status, as well as Brown’s insistence that Clinton is supposedly playing the role of Obama’s “other wife.”
Has anyone else read Mary Gordon’s woman artist’s fantasy, a novel titled Spending: A Utopian Divertimento?
Hey guys, this is the first time you have heard from me. I am a male-bodied genderqueer feminist. I video blog about this and masculinity and femininity. Please take a look at Transfeminism, Overthrowing Masculinity
Over at Happy Bodies:
We ranted about how fat bodies are quantified and therefore objectified.
We also discussed the claim that Dr. Benjamin is too fat to be Surgeon General.
I wrote a sober critique of romanticizing labor pain, and followed it up with a lighter look at childbirth (with cartoons!).
Earlier in the week, I gave some thought to the pitfalls and promises of intersectional analysis.
My husband photograph’s kids from all around the world with inspirational quotes…
I like this one: http://www.cheerupnation.com/best-beauty-tip-ever/
One woman’s quest to overcome the math that plagued her for years:
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/mathochism-the-introduction/
‘Some of these ethnic groups are really greasy,’ my nursing professor said, ‘you have to use several changes of water when you wash them.’
What do you do when your patient has–’A Case of Ethnicity’
http://kmareka.com/2009/07/16/a-case-of-ethnicity/
Though not usually a blogger, I recently posted my musings on the intersection of regionalism and the idea of “passing” after reading Bint’s The Oppressor Within post here on Feministe.
This week, I followed the murder of Russian human rights defender Natalia Estemirova. The seven most recent posts here: http://transitionland.wordpress.com/category/caucasus/
After a 10-day holiday, I have returned much refreshed and invigorated. I continued with my look at the Letters of the New Testament, writing about 1 Corinthians (I noticed someone else quoted 1 Corinthians 13 in a post linked in this session: it is a beautiful piece of writing – shame about some of the rest of the letter…)
Shamelessly promoting someone else’s work: Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions – How to tell which monster you’re dating.
I have acquired some new weapons – a banjo and a cat-o’-nine-tails – pictures and my first piece of banjo playing can be found here.
I also committed a cover version of San Fancisco Bay Blues, and expressed some doubts about my plundering of USAian indigenous musical styles in doing so – comments (good or bad) welcome!
Finally, as I said, I’ve been away for a while, and I brought back kitteh pics! (And a picture of a wedding cake, because attending the wedding was one of the reasons for my going away.)
I’m going to be participating in Blogathon this year–and will send a chapbook to anyone who pledges to donate to Friends International.
A review of Evie Shockley’s “quiet as it’s kept”, a feminist love poem.
Read My Aspie mind: a re-interpretation of the results of a recent study that expanded on the he Sally-Anne False Belief Test.
For the writers reading: a weekend prompt.
I had an at times tongue in cheek debate with myself over the merits of raunch pop, concluding that:
One of the things teenaged me was alarmed to discover about the world was that people might look at me as an object rather than a person. That when they looked at me with desire, that didn’t mean they’d treat me with kindness or respect – often just the opposite. And it’s not just me: growing up female in a world that views young women’s flesh as something to be feasted upon is a scary thing for a lot of people. …
I think that part of the psychological appeal of raunch culture is that, to some extent, it subverts those fears, even as it boosts the thinking that fosters them.
Yet another post about the continuing intrablog PC squabbles over trigger warnings and safe spaces. I denounce them.
http://writhesafely.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/a-word-with-you/
Comrade PhysioProf damaged his gnome.
Public Enemies: Race and Male Aggression: my review of Johnny Depp’s new film.
Pervasiveness of rape culture and acceptance of not-rape
Happy 10th Birthday Spongebob!
Fuzz Therapy
http://combatqueer.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/07/still-siblings.html
How the whole “Christians Vs Queers” thing is a fixed game, and why I won’t play it any more.
http://combatqueer.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/07/derek-webbs-what-matters-more.html
A good contemporary Christian rock song. Ridiculous but true.
and finally:
http://combatqueer.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/07/why-is-it-that-the-minute-i-get-off-base-and-drunk-i-become-lonely.html
Yep, the Army’s still a frightening and lonely place sometimes.
Why Sarah Palin’s bug (not knowing anything) is actually a feature: Misunderstanding Palin and ‘Palinism’: It’s the Politics of the Blood
For levity, here’s a great public awareness campaign: No Man-Sitting on the MBTA
Got a lot of hits on this one, pardon the troll:
Women should have the right to be shirtless!
And this is about “Roe” of Roe v. Wade:
On Norma McCorvey
I think my earlier post got filtered, but I wanted to make sure that any of you who are artists know about the Weekend with the Masters conference drawing. One person will have all expenses paid. Check it out. http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/07/weekend-with-masters-conference.html
Why I should not title my posts with the first thing that crosses my mind at 5 in the morning: The Utopian Promise of Porn. In which I articulate to myself one of the problems with pornography.
Yeah, I figured that would go to moderation. Oh well!
Spearheading the I Paid for College Project, a blog and networking site for college sex workers and their stories.
Why a woman’s appetite is a feminist issue:
http://www.sirensmag.com
I’ll be participating in Blogathon 2009 right along with Cara! I’m supporting The Sex Workers Project, and you can read why (and how to donate ^_^) here: http://duncanheights.com/blog/?p=2662
Thanks very much.
Ms. Magazine Offends with Summer Cover, Did Ms. learn nothing from the National Review debacle?
Changing Beauty Standards with a Scalpel, Empowerment through repulsion? Or brilliantly contrived self-transformation?
Six Questions for Writer and Activist Staceyann Chin, pretty self-explanatory title
Know Your Hipster Gendered Band Names!, these days, bands named Women, or Girls, which turn out to be more like dudes and bros
Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker? contains interviews with well known icons like Kathleen Hanna and Semiotext(e) publisher Sylvere Lotringer, yet also features young female students who all give different interpretations on Acker’s work and influence on their writing. There are also, of course, family members, ex-lovers, friends, and peers who all give insight into the life, work, and early death of Kathy Acker, who died in 1997 from breast cancer.
Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For – From Asparagus Omelets to Pumpkin Pancakes: In a first read through, Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s cookbook Vegan Brunch is nearly perfect. There are large color pictures for almost every recipe, which is an amateur chef must. There are clear and accessible ingredients, measurements, and instructions. Moskowitz even includes a shopping list for your vegan pantry and tips for serving a fabulous and delicious brunch. I would make the clichéd request for a spiral bound copy, so I’m not propping it open with a can of corn.
Incredible. Insightful. Inspiring. These are the words I use to describe Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, the pivotal textbook on the growing politics of Asian American women. Essays embrace wide-ranging issues that include domestic violence, health, exploitation in the global trade, the role of spirituality, and punk-rock culture—all in the light of organizing and activism.
Death of a Piano: Machinima, if that’s an allowable description of an animation made from old photographs from the Library of Congress. Beautiful, haunting, wonderful, both the visual piece and its soundtrack.