International Women’s Day is very soon!
International Women’s Day is coming up in just a few days. What is IWD, I hear you say? I’m glad you asked! IWD has been marked yearly on 8 March since the early twentieth century. That is, it began with a National Women’s Day in the United States on 28 February 1909 as started by [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
You know what to do.
...read moreFriday Random Ten – the Snowpocalypse part 30454 edition
There’s a huge snowstorm in New York right now, and it’s making me wish I was still in the southern hemisphere. Ugh. Anyone having a better Friday? The Friday Video this week is a song that I’ve been a little obsessed with for the past few months — I admittedly think the TI version is [...]
...read moreLive-Tweeting Abortion
Angie Jackson is live-tweeting her abortion this week, and it seems to have brought a lot of woman-haters out of the woodwork. She has, predictably, been accused of everything from trivializing the procedure to baby-killing. But it seems to me that what she’s doing is brave, and a pretty generous service to other women. One [...]
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Thursday LOST Roundtable: Lighthouse
Spoilers below! This week on LOST, sideways Jack dealt with a new kind of daddy issue, regular Jack and Hurley visited (and destroyed!) a magical lighthouse, and Claire turned out to be a whole lot scarier than we’d predicted. We had an awful lot to say about it all, so let’s jump right in … [...]
...read moreSome things you should know about the Vancouver Olympic Games
I wanted to draw your attention to protests against the Winter Olympics by a number of indigenous groups in Canada. I’d not heard much about it until Anna of Trouble is Everywhere drew my attention to the protests; speaking of which, thanks to Anna for for helping me find some of these links! It seems [...]
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Vajazzled
So, um, this is interesting. I suppose if you want to decorate your pubic area with little crystals, go for it. I can’t even begin to imagine the ingrown hair situation there (or the totally disturbed look you’ll get when your dude or lady comes face-to-face, if you will, with your Swarovskified-vulva), but to each [...]
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Taylor Swift Flame
Is Taylor Swift bad for women? The F-Bomb says she is not a feminist dream! Because, well, she is maybe not so talented and she writes pretty much just about boys and she relies pretty heavily on the virgin/whore thing in her songs and videos. My one quibble is the idea that Swift isn’t a [...]
...read moreSeen and Not Heard
From the LA Times: Women may make up 51% of the population, but actresses nabbed only 29.9% of the 4,379 speaking parts in the 100 top-grossing films of 2007, or so says a new study released by University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, which was conducted by professor Stacy. L Smith. [...]
...read moreBut Women Don’t Rape
*Trigger warning on the post and the comments* A guest post by writer and social researcher Rachel Hills, of Musings of an Inappropriate Woman. We’ve all heard the “but he’s such a nice guy” defence trotted out to explain away sexual assault, but what about the “but she’s such a nice girl” defence? It’s a [...]
...read moreUtah bill would criminalize miscarriage
You know, if they were really pro-life, they would also criminalize masturbation and menstruation. Every sperm is sacred! Every egg is a potential baby! Snark aside, I do think it’s interesting that anti-choicers will put significant effort into a bill like this and into, say, prosecuting women who use drugs while pregnant, but they do [...]
...read moreNext Step Launch Party
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about these organizations geared toward creating an “old girls network” or groups that aim to train women to run for office, negotiate a promotion, manage finances, get ahead at work, that sort of thing. I’ve been personally involved in handful, the Women’s Information Network, the Woodhull Institute for Ethical [...]
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