http://combatqueer.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-fundamentalist-aint-the-worst.html

A queer-identified woman from a small town in California, Mary Gray’s experience lobbying for harassment protection for queer youth in the California public schools prompted her groundbreaking research on what life is like for the young and queer in rural America. The resulting book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media and Queer Visibility in Rural America, discusses the myriad ways the national gay rights movement fails to be fully inclusive of its bucolic brethren, and provides strategies for including the complex needs of rural LGBTQ youth in the national queer agenda.

Hateraid: People of WalMart Edition, this site is an example of what happens when people fail to have class consciousness, folks.

Hateraid: International Commercials Edition, a response to my disappointment with the lack of creativity on the part of advertisers, feeling of boredom with their attempts at sensationalism, and surprise at the lack of sensitivity regarding a recent act of terrorism that has had global repercussions.

Newsflash: Summer Flings Also Appropriate for Fall, Winter, Spring, Glamour has a “helpful” article in their latest issue that helpfully promises “6 ways to turn your summer fling into the real thing.”

Ella Es El Matador, exploring the world of bullfighting through the eyes of female matadors

So This Feminist Walks into a Bar… And Enters a Joke Contest!, book giveaway in exchange for a little feminist humor

Passivity in domesticity: Is clipart the new female nude? , the connection between women, domesticity, and submissiveness in web images.

Complained about a rape joke in “Brief Instructions”

Celebrated the bravery of hard-as-nails army medic LCpl Sally Clarke

and posted an inventory of all the neat stuff I found at the local hospital fundraising fete.

“Be Afraid, Be Very Very Afraid“: Queen Emily’s debut post at Hoyden About Town. Western Australian lawmakers think the sky is falling, because two trans men might be actually recognised as a man while in possession of a uterus. Or uteri. Uteri that might, theoretically, BREED, thereby bringing fire and brimstone down on our otherwise morally upright State.

“Quick Hit: HealthBase Cures All Ills”: WildlyParenthetical plays with HealthBase, the new artificial stupidity engine. Did you know that the medical treatments for Fetish include Latex, Spandex, Magazine and Condiment?

“Beauty, Virtue & Vice, and a Map of a Woman’s Heart“: A neat look at notions of ideal beauty and true womanhood based on American 19th-C prints of women. Includes “A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart”, which warns about women’s propensity to Selfishness, Coquetry, Deception, and Fickleness.

Chally has “Fudging funding for the NT Indigenous housing program“, where she wonders why not one house has been built in the two years of the $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program.

An obituary: “Friday Hoyden: Barbara Moore: Feminist, Lawyer, Writer & Grad Student of the U of Melbourne. 1953-2009“: Barbara finished her thesis on her deathbed, and her supervisor shares some of her memoir with us.

I call epic fail on an “Irish columnist”

Language in an article on sex work pisses me right off

And I made my first vid!

It’s not a blog but it’s something I wrote for my college paper and I happen to think I did a good job (though the lone commenter on my piece sadly does not agree, heh)

anyway: it’s on why “PC” is a good, not negative, thing and why more people should practice using PC language. http://cuindependent.com/2009/09/03/dear-you/