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Chesapeake Necklace: Moonrise Jewelry had me at hello. The woman-owned and operated, Virginia-based, eco-friendly company doesn’t simply produce amazing jewelry; they “design, manufacture, and sell high-quality handmade jewelry while adhering to values that contribute to a stronger and healthier global community.” Are you in love yet? Because it gets better.
Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes: I know a man who wears boots, shaves his face, urinates standing up, fucks women (his term), and still sometimes menstruates. In Between XX and XY independent researcher Gerald N. Callahan briefly and tidily introduces the flaws, silences, and prejudices of the Western sex-binary system expressed as male:masculine:man::female:feminine:woman.
Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save The World: If the adage about giving a woman a fish only feeding her for a day, but teaching her to fish feeds her for life is true, then Matthew Bishop and Michael Green would argue that the nature of today’s philanthropic giving has taken a similar turn by creating a standard and strategy of giving that doesn’t simply donate—it leverages, it grows, it profits, and it multiplies.
The Women’s Room: Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room, first published in 1977 and republished this year (a re-release ironically in the works before French’s death last May), has been touted as one of the most influential novels of the second wave of feminism. It is the most intense, real, and painful story I have ever read.
Reminder: Adventures of a Young Feminist has MOVED! I can now be found at http://adventuresofayoungfeminist.com
Dollhouse on DVD: why I think Dollhouse is a feminist show.
Why I Don’t Listen to Theory of a Deadman: a guest post from Miss Wizzle at feministhemes.com about the misogyny behind the band Theory of a Deadman.
An Observation: a guest post from Chally at Zero at the Bone about what her racial identity means to her and others.
In the Name of Honor: book review for Women’s Studies Wednesday by Miss Wizzle of feministhemes.com.
Bones Examination: before the new season of Bones starts next week, I wanted to share my thoughts on the show.
A Watchmen Concern: a guest post from Amanda at The Undomestic Goddess about her reactions to the graphic novel of Watchmen prior to seeing the movie. Look for her reconceptualization after seeing the movie tomorrow for Movie Monday!
Glee: Series Premiere: my reactions to the series premiere of Glee.
I Want to Believe [Feminist Flashback Friday]: a look back at the feminism behind Dana Scully from the X-Files.
I attended a Christian Anti-Porn event at Purdue and all I got were emotional appeals and misinformation (with gems such as “Protective sex is a joke”).
We’re at new digs at hoydenabouttown.com, and here are a few bits and pieces:
Franchising the Womb: Selling Fetal Imaging
Australovenator! – minor paleontologygasm over new Australian dinosaur finds
Friday Hoyden: the Eleventh Doctor’s new companion
Monsters vs Aliens – Feminist Win, Feminist Fail?
Just in time for fashion week: a feminist designer in NYC tells us why she chooses to make recycled clothing.
Also, go to the Suck My Wit blog (suckmywit.wordpress.com) for information on how to contribute to later issues/get a copy of our most recent issue)
1. Firstly, I finally made a page to collect all the “What do you want Judaism to be?” discussions in one place.
2. In my series of love letters to the Diaspora, I wrote #6: When We Meet On The Streets Of American Cities.
3. And, on the gender front, I compared breast-binders to padded bras: Gender, Truth, And Image-Making.
Whoops, link fail.
3. And, on the gender front, I compared breast-binders to padded bras: Gender, Truth, And Image-Making.
I did a little debunking of an item circulating in the blogosphere that asserted there’s a “new” trend toward monogamy. And in a post that I already think might be a little too optimistic about cultural change, I considered how lefthandedness used to be persecuted and hoped that we’re on our way to viewing intersex conditions, too, as just normal biological variations.
What Would We Do Without White Privilege?: Breaking down the argument that Whiteness is responsible for all of the progress made in the western world.
Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Have Sex: AIDS is a Mass Murderer: Looking at a safe sex campaign.
Caster Semenya Has Been Declared Intersex: Looking at how Caster has been treated by the media.
Women and Undocumented Workers get Sold Down the Healthcare River: Looking at the Obama’s healthcare speech.
Another reason to abolish the death penalty: Looking at an innocent man that was executed. Also an examination of the racial disparity in the death penalty.
Feminists with Female Sexual Dysfunction turned 1 year old.
Oh god I can’t believe I just added another year onto the FSD saga of my life oh god. I don’t know whether to be proud of the blog (and my writing) for reaching this milestone, or disappointed that I’m still not completely out of the woods yet.
Anyway the post took a look back on some things I wrote about previously, looks at current happenings, and offers a preview of some things I’d like to write about in the future.
My Dragon*Con report, with Ubiquitous Steampunk Lesbians. I’m the one with the eyepatch.
Also, over 900 of us tried to break the Thriller Dance World Record.
Queer Dimensions a compendium of GLBT science fiction is available.
Writing with an agenda
I’m most proud this week of Twits Vs. Substance: How the Right Uses Sex for Both Political Gain *and* Political Cover, about how California Assemblyman Michael Duvall used his resignation speech to frame his actions in terms of sin and redemption instead of, oh, say, crime and punishment. The “sin” he admitted to was bragging about hawtt sex he was having with a much younger woman. The crime he was trying to avoid drawing attention to was that the young woman was a lobbyist for a company his committee had jurisdiction over. This is a very big-deal tendency that, unfortunately, we fall for over, and over, and over.
Another recurring-theme of mine: The No-Sex Class: Reporting vs. Instructing in News About Sexuality is about yet another gender-difference book where one answer out of 1,500 (“to get him to take out the rubbish”) is presented as a “we knew it all along” representation of why women “really” have sex. (Meanwhile the first 30 or so most-common answers are the same for both men and women.) Point being that reporting the dominant paradigm is more important than reporting actual news.
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In “Change,” Combatqueer looks at what hasn’t changed in the political sphere over the last two decades. Despite the depressing news, she finds a happier outlook and points readers to a fellow optimist.
http://combatqueer.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/change.html
I posted about the beginning of a new school year for my tween with autism: http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/7th-grade-the-initial-parentteacher-conference/
and my mixed feelings about him trying out for football… http://spectrumbeach.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/football-tryouts/
It’s the Holocaust, Only Sexier! Fauxgressive Liberal Dickwads Strike Again http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/its-the-holocaust-only-sexier/
The Van Jones Debacle: Race and Gender Intersect (Kind Of)
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/the-van-jones-debacle/
Sorry, Anti-Feminists: There’s No Such Thing as Misandry
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/no-such-thing-as-misandry/
Trying to overcome math phobia and then finding sexist nuggets in the algebra textbook? Not cool.
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/mathochism-why-algebra-and-politics-dont-mix/
We’re having some server issues, so hopefully these links will work!!
At SAFER’s Change Happens blog, this week’s biggest campus story was about an anonymous email distributed at Yale ranking the female first year students:
http://www.safercampus.org/blog/?p=1597
This week in Evil Slutopia:
~September’s issue of Marie Claire has a short fluff piece about a “modesty” and “character formation” group for teen girls called Pure Fashion. They don’t mention how problematic the “purity” aspect of the program is for young women, or the fact that the Catholic group that backs Pure Fashion is pretty controversial, especially where its dealings with young people are concerned: “Pure” Fashion?
~Lots of sex talk, mostly thanks to reading Cosmo’s goofy sex advice – we’re talking handjobs and learning about how to touch him there…and there. We’ve also got a roundup of Cosmo Quickies for September.
~Our True Blood obsession continues: Bloody Love and Twilight Ruined Everything!
~Our tale of attending Kathy Griffin’s packed NYC signing for her new book Official Book Club Selection.
Not that Kind of Fundamentalist Memoir
Carlene Bauer lost her faith, but it wasn’t because she was raised on the far-right fringe of fundamentalist religion—it was more that she thought God deserved better than the clichés of modern evangelicalism.
India’s Most Fatal Cancer is Preventable
Taking the lives of 75,000 women each year, cervical cancer is the leading cause of death for women in India. This number accounts for a third of all cancers that affect women in India and a fifth of the total cervical cancer related deaths worldwide. With 132,000 new reported cases in India annually, this disease is having catastrophic effects on the developing world.
???????????: new awareness campaign shames women, and for some reason uses having sex with murderous dictators as an analogy of contracting AIDs.
When gender is enforced: more on Semenya’s makeover.
Fuzz Therapy: this week i demonstrate the proper technique.
Dead bodies having sex–oh noooeeesss!: Body World’s latest exhibit is drawing harsh criticism. discussion welcome.
I respond to all of the most popular questions about Personhood Amendments, using Jill’s “Even More Questions For Pro-Lifers” as a model. It also contains a link to my post about personhood and contraception.
Answers to FAQs about Personhood Amendments
Sometimes Love Is A Battlefield – But It Doesn’t Have to Be
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/sometimes-love-is-battlefield-but-it.html
Can you imagine the day when Oprah isn’t on tv every week?
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/oprah-might-relinquish-her.html
Songs about money: Abba, Pink Floyd & Cabaret
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/old-school-friday-all-money-all-time.html
I spoke on the Takeaway about Obamacare. My health insurance costs more than $700/mo so I had to give it up.
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/old-school-friday-all-money-all-time.html
Former BET Staffer complains about the culture but he was kneck deep in supporting the dysfunction until it bit him in the you know what!
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/ex-bet-employee-throws-stones-he-was.html
Handling Internet Ike Turners and their ilk when writing a blog
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/internet-ike-turners-obfuscation.html
How Color of Change Botched a golden opportunity
http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/ineptitude-101-color-of-change-van.html
Van Jones – DBR in Sheep’s Clothing
http://dbr-alert.livejournal.com/900.html
Over at After cancer now what I posted my bitchy response to the Independent Women’s Forum . And I would like to complain about their name too. Sounds like a groups that readers of this blog would love but it’s a scam!
There’s also Health Care and Firefighting which has been more popular than I expected.
Building on the “Remodeling Masculinity” theme introduced last week, this week we present two men who, in their own ways, challenge traditional masculine norms and stereotypes: Tim Gunn and Dennis Rodman.
Solidarity Tipsheet….written for Hyphen:
http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2009/09/idealize-this-the-basics-of-so-1.html#more
In which I try to recall unpleasant things that happened many years ago. Did I get molested by a masseuse?
Answers to FAQs About Personhood Amendments…
There are many questions asked and objections raised by opponents of Personhood Amendments. In this post, I attempt to answer all of the common questions and objections.
……
I wrote one post!
John Cho in suits!, which is what it sounds like.
Enjoy!
I don’t have TV, but I do have a library card, so if you’ve watched HBO’s True Blood, and think it’s cheese-tastic, wait’ll you read the books…:
http://mywordnerdery.blogspot.com/2009/09/dead-until-dark-or-why-i-should-not.html
It’s Fiona Apple’s birthday, and in honor of it, I wrote briefly about her love of word play:
http://mywordnerdery.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-birthday-ms-apple.html
This week, I:
* Responded to Alderson Warm-Fork of DirectionlessBones after discussing ideas about improving the Political Compass concept
* Had a go at a researcher whose research conclusions mistook disagreeing with him as being ignorance: Teaching and the Brain
* Celebrated the lioness-hearted performance of the England women vs Germany women, especially Faye White who was playing with a fractured cheekbone.
* Wrote a short piece of fiction inspired by wishes for oblivion (via sleep!) when I was depressed: Cyborg Sleeps.
The Christian right organization Personhood Florida is attempting to change the Florida constitution to make ertain forms of contraception illegal. Personhood Florida’s goal is to have the moment of conception declared life. Contraceptives usage could be ruled homicide, if PF succeeds. Which seems unlikely.
Is Breastfeeding a Civil Right?
http://feministsforchoice.com/is-breastfeeding-a-civil-right.htm
Should Scott Roeder Face the Death Penalty?
http://feministsforchoice.com/should-scott-roeder-face-the-death-penalty.htm
Can a Cream Intensify Female Orgasms?
http://feministsforchoice.com/can-a-cream-help-intensify-female-orgasm.htm
I started a blog. I’m planning to write about Disability Rights, Mental Illness Feminism, Antiracism, Adoptee Rights and the intersection of all of these topics. I’m also writing a little bit about training my service dog.
Please comment and feel free to give me suggestions on posting. Also, if my site isn’t accessible to you, please let me know.
On my blog:
Sex, Gender, and the Non-Elite Athlete: some thoughts about what it might mean to those of us who were never champions if they stopped dividing sports by gender.
Rite of Recall, a poem about love and memory
and a Weekend Prompt.
Also, I have a poem in Gloom Cupboard 106 and am looking for support in the Poemeleon Mystery Box Contest (poem here, poll here)
Okay, it disappeared. (?) Do it again?
“What’s the matter with South Carolina?”
Shocking News: Another politician embarrasses South Carolina
Non-muslim feminists face off over veil
Why is the Catholic Church the last feminist frontier?
If anyone’s interested in Norwegian politics, (the election results come in tomorrow!), here’s my take, focusing particularly on body politics:
http://happybodies.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/norwegian-body-politics/
Women in Tech / Women near Tech In which Geek Feminism folks talk about the politics of what we mean by “tech”.
Also from Geek Feminism, And she’s cute, too!: Dealing with comments on your appearance.
Fury and grace: Jeeja Yasnin Thai martial arts star kicking some butt!
And, from Hack Ability blog, Twitter your way out of a bad hospital: how one woman escaped a nightmare situation.
And from my BlogHer column, How to detect and fix the latest WordPress security hole *cough*feministeneedstoupdatenow*cough*
This week, I wrote about:
*The Brokenness of the Sex Offender Registry
*Why I Fear Library Digitization
*Recognizing the World’s Response to 9/11, and
*The Propaganda Following Media Coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I also posted an e-mail I got from the promoters of health insurance reform, including a link to contact your representatives. That can be found here.
Girls Can’t WHAT? has added a few new designs to the shop… Archery, Rock Climbing, Boxing and more. Girls Can’t WHAT?
Have you ever been told you “can’t because you’re a girl? Share Your Story
this week i wrote a little bit about my impending where-to-buy-my-bagels dilemma.
and i wrote maybe the end of last week/beginning of this one, breaking my own rule, about a phenomenon i observed: heterosexual, homogender.
Can I ask exactly WHAT you are moderating? How long does it take, and why is everyone else’s allowed through?
The Organization for Transformative Works, one of the two majority-female open source coding projects around, has purchased its own servers, which has been a goal since 2007.
This week on Gender Across Borders:
Impoverished Men Sell Wives in Uttar Pradesh
Men aren’t the only ones maximizing their reproductive fitness…or are they?
Sleepless and Childless in Seoul—Persistent Birthrate Decline Calls For New Approach
September’s SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health Report): Abortion in the Dominican Republic
Are home births safe?—What do you think?
I was doing a lot of updates to posts at The (not so) Little Things this week. Including street harassment, marketing fails for video games, and an unfortunate placement of the craptasticly designed VA mental health ads.
In other news:
I learned about The Love Letters Project from Adventures of a Young Feminist and thought it was a great way to work toward marriage equality by pointing out what anti-equality douchebags are trying to legislate away – love.
Speaking of douches…it seems only douches have cars that need a new paint job. At least according to Earl Scheib.
Finally, I did a little Sunday Bible Study about five Texas churches who have put up billboards asking homophobes to re-read their bible.
Hmmmm, I thought I posted yesterday, but it looks like it didn’t go through. I tried again, but no luck. Apologies if for some reason both show up later.
A brief rant on the media’s depiction of Caster Semenya